Tesla, United States

Tesla Optimus

The most famous humanoid in the conversation, and still one of the least consumer-ready.

Status: Coming soon
Public price: Not publicly priced
Category: General-purpose humanoid
Best for: General tasks

How close to a home

1 / 5

Maker's own page

Why it matters

No humanoid gets more mainstream attention. Optimus makes the category feel culturally inevitable, even while practical access remains limited.

What it can do

Tesla presents Optimus as a bipedal autonomous robot for unsafe, repetitive, or boring tasks, with industrial usefulness expected before everyday home adoption.

The company

Optimus benefits from Tesla's AI, manufacturing, and automation ecosystem. Ambition is massive, but public consumer details are still limited.

Specs

Tesla has no Optimus product page: tesla.com/AI is a recruiting page. What Tesla itself has said: the 2022 prototype was specified at 5 ft 8 in and 125 lb (about 173 cm, 57 kg); the Gen 2 shown in December 2023 was about 10 kg lighter with better hands; as of September 2026 Tesla says the next generation will be shown closer to production start, with first production lines being installed in Fremont. Tesla’s own statements appear in its quarterly shareholder updates (ir.tesla.com) and the @Tesla_Optimus account, not on a spec sheet, so no height or weight is listed here as current.

Roboosh verdict

If you are tracking the cultural centre of the humanoid race, you cannot ignore Optimus. If you want a robot for your home today, you still have to wait.