Tesla Optimus Gen 3: Inside the Humanoid Robot Revolutionizing Industry
Optimus Gen 3 stands about 173 cm tall, weighs 57 kg, can lift roughly 20 kg, can walk at about 5 mph, and is powered by a 2.3 kWh onboard battery. Each Optimus Gen 3 hand has 22 degrees of freedom, with five fingers and four joints per finger plus two wrist joints, enabling human-like dexterity. The robot runs on a Tesla on-board AI brain based on Autopilot hardware, with walking gait and manipulation learned in simulation via reinforcement learning. Public demonstrations in 2024–2025 showed Optimus performing yoga, cracking an egg on a stove, dancing, and bartending, though several feats