Robots · Humanoid
Optimus
A general-purpose humanoid in development, aimed at repetitive or hazardous tasks in factories and beyond.
- Maker
- Tesla
- Country
- United States
- Category
- Humanoid
- Status
- In development
- Mobility
- Bipedal walking; dexterous hands
- Autonomy
- In development; demos range from teleoperated to autonomous
- Actuators
- Electric actuators with multi-fingered hands
- Onboard compute
- Onboard compute leveraging Tesla's autonomy stack
- AI models
- Vision-based end-to-end and learned manipulation policies
- Perception
- Camera-centric perception inherited from Tesla's autonomy work
- Control
- Learned and model-based control under active development
Sensors
Cameras (vision-centric)IMUJoint/torque sensing
Use cases
- Repetitive factory tasks (targeted)
- Material handling (targeted)
Limitations
- Still in development; capability claims are forward-looking
- Real-world autonomy and reliability not yet proven at scale