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Optimus

Tesla's general-purpose humanoid program (prototype 2022, Gen 2 2023). Optimus V3 production at Fremont was announced for summer 2026, but as of September 2026 V3 had not been publicly revealed.

announcedNot for saleL0 Indexednot buildable

Difficulty index

9.0/13
9.0
Index breakdown
Classhumanoid+5
Costunknown · midpoint+1.5
DOFunknown · midpoint+1.5
Partsunknown · midpoint+1
How the index works

Top of the ladder. This robot lives on the humanoid domains.

Specimen photographs

4 items
  • Two Tesla Optimus humanoids on display plinths, Stockholm
    Via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).Ulkl, via Wikimedia Commons · PublicDomain · source
  • Tesla Optimus humanoid standing in an exhibition case, front view
    Via Wikimedia Commons (Public domain).Benjamin Ceci, via Wikimedia Commons · PublicDomain · source
  • Tesla Optimus (Tesla Bot 2023) on a display stand
    Via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).Premeditated, via Wikimedia Commons · CC-BY-SA-4.0 · source
  • Optimus - Gen 2 | TeslaTesla · official video, embedded · source

Spec card

1/13 known
Price
not for sale

Not in the registry: degrees of freedom, height, mass, payload, speed, runtime, battery, bom total, part count, actuators, compute, sensors. Left blank rather than guessed.

What you learn building it

  • +Whole-body control
  • +Dozens of actuators on one bus
  • +Balance and fall handling
  • +Safe bring-up of a full-size machine

Openness

0/100
  • not publicCAD
  • not publicBOM
  • not publicFirmware
  • not publicSim model
  • not publicSoftware
  • not publicPolicies

Score 0/100 computed from what is public: CAD 25, BOM 20, sim 20, firmware 15, software 10, policies 10.

Repos & models

Site

Build it

Announced, not shipping.

humanoidrobot.build/tesla/optimus · Closed hardware; no public CAD or BOM.

Simulate

humanoidrobots.training/tesla/optimus

No public URDF or MJCF.

Next rung

None. This is the top. Find people building it on humanoidrobots.team.

This is the top of the ladder.

Note'announced' reflects V3; Gen 2 units are used internally, not sold. Fremont Model S/X line converted for Optimus; second Optimus factory at Giga Texas planned ~2027. Musk: 2026 output 'quite slow'. No official V3 spec sheet.

Sources

  1. [1]Wikipedia - Optimuschecked 2026-09-24
  2. [2]Electrek Apr 2026 - V3 reveal delayedchecked 2026-09-24
  3. [3]Tesla 10-Q Q2 2026checked 2026-09-24