Tesla Optimus (also known as Tesla Bot) is a bipedal humanoid robot developed by Tesla, first announced at Tesla AI Day in August 2021. The initial Bumble C prototype was demonstrated at AI Day 2022, and in December 2023 Tesla unveiled Optimus Gen 2 featuring in-house designed actuators and an increased number of degrees of freedom in the hands.
The robot uses a vision-based neural network perception stack derived from Tesla’s Full Self-Driving system and an onboard Tesla-designed AI inference computer. Optimus remains a prototype, ultimately targeted at repetitive, unsafe or boring tasks — including work inside Tesla’s own factories.
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