Optimus
Overview
Tesla's general-purpose autonomous humanoid robot program. Tesla describes Optimus as a bi-pedal robot meant to handle unsafe, repetitive, or boring tasks and says the same AI foundation used for vehicle autonomy underpins its robotics work. Optimus V3 - featuring doubled hand dexterity (22 DOF), Tesla's AI5 chip, and a target price of $20-30K at scale - is slated for a late-July/August 2026 reveal with first volume production targeted for summer 2026.
Optimus entered production on Fremont's converted first-generation line, confirmed in reporting dated August 27-28, 2026 - about four months after the space finished building its last Model S/X (May 10, 2026). Output is intentionally slow at the start (Musk describes a 'flat and long' initial S-curve), and the earliest units go to Tesla's internal 'Optimus Academy' training/data-collection program and factory tasks rather than customer sale; independent reporting pegs realistic external/commercial sales starting as early as 2H 2027. The line targets about 1M units/year long-term, with a dedicated Giga Texas second-generation line designed for up to 10M units/year. Musk has called Optimus the hardest product Tesla has tried to scale, citing roughly 10,000 unique parts and no existing supply chain.
Key Specs
V3 Reveal
No new date set as of the July 22, 2026 earnings call; Musk has said Tesla is holding the public reveal until closer to volume production so competitors cannot copy the design frame-by-frame