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ELON: OPTIMUS VERSION 3 WILL HAVE HUMAN DEXTERITY AND AN AI MIND “We’re finalizing the design of Optimus version three, and that really is going to be a very remarkable robot. It will have the manual dexterity of a human, a very complex hand and an AI mind that... show more

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"We're finalizing the design of Optimus v3. It will have essentially the manual dexterity of a human, a very complex hand and an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality. Optimus will be the biggest product ever." 一 Elon Musk

"We're finalizing the design of Optimus v3. It will have essentially the manual dexterity of a human, a very complex hand and an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality. Optimus will be the biggest product ever." 一 Elon Musk

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NEW: Elon Musk on Optimus v3: "We're finalizing the design of Optimus v3. It will have essentially the manual dexterity of a human, a very complex hand and an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality. If successful, Optimus will be the biggest product ever."

NEW: Elon Musk on Optimus v3: "We're finalizing the design of Optimus v3. It will have essentially the manual dexterity of a human, a very complex hand and an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality. If successful, Optimus will be the biggest product ever."

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ELON: I’M SPENDING MANY BRAIN CYCLES ON SCALING OPTIMUS PRODUCTION “We're finalizing the design of Optimus version 3. That really is going to be a very remarkable robot. It will have essentially the manual dexterity of a human, meaning a very complex hand, an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality, and it will be made in very high volume. If you see any other robotics company, they're missing those three things. Those are the three really hard things. I spend actually at this point more of my mental cycles than anything else, any other single thing, on Optimus. That's solving for real-world AI. There is no supply chain that exists for humanoid robots, so we have to recreate it from scratch, which requires doing a lot of vertical integration.” Source: Interview at the All-In Summit, September 10, 2025

ELON: I’M SPENDING MANY BRAIN CYCLES ON SCALING OPTIMUS PRODUCTION “We're finalizing the design of Optimus version 3. That really is going to be a very remarkable robot. It will have essentially the manual dexterity of a human, meaning a very complex hand, an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality, and it will be made in very high volume. If you see any other robotics company, they're missing those three things. Those are the three really hard things. I spend actually at this point more of my mental cycles than anything else, any other single thing, on Optimus. That's solving for real-world AI. There is no supply chain that exists for humanoid robots, so we have to recreate it from scratch, which requires doing a lot of vertical integration.” Source: Interview at the All-In Summit, September 10, 2025

Mario Nawfal

1,534,587 views • 9 months ago

We are finalizing the design of Optimus version three, and that really is going to be a very remarkable robot." — Elon Musk

We are finalizing the design of Optimus version three, and that really is going to be a very remarkable robot." — Elon Musk

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

14,307 views • 8 months ago

Elon: Optimus Will Learn Tasks by Watching Videos and will "Move the Needle" on U.S. GDP “Optimus is a general-purpose robot that can learn by observing human behavior. You can demonstrate a task, verbally describe it, or even show it a video, and it will be able to do that task. It’s gonna be a very capable robot. Long-term, Optimus will have a very significant impact on the US GDP, it will actually move the needle on US GDP significantly.” Source: Tesla

Elon: Optimus Will Learn Tasks by Watching Videos and will "Move the Needle" on U.S. GDP “Optimus is a general-purpose robot that can learn by observing human behavior. You can demonstrate a task, verbally describe it, or even show it a video, and it will be able to do that task. It’s gonna be a very capable robot. Long-term, Optimus will have a very significant impact on the US GDP, it will actually move the needle on US GDP significantly.” Source: Tesla

Mario Nawfal

196,504 views • 5 months ago

Everything Elon said about Optimus at the All-In Summit today: • We’re finalizing the design of Optimus v3. That release is going to be a very remarkable robot. It will have manual dexterity comparable to a human, meaning a very complex hand, an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality, and will be made in very high volume. • Other robotics companies are missing those three very hard things. • I spend more mental cycles on Optimus than any other single thing. Solving real-world AI, all of the electrical-mechanical issues, the supply chain, and production challenges. • There is no supply chain for humanoid robots, so it has to be created from scratch, which requires a lot of vertical integration. None of the actuators in Optimus are available from an existing supply chain. • I think if successful, Optimus would be the biggest product ever. • The marginal cost of production, once we hit a million units per year, will probably be around $20,000. It depends on how much we spend on the AI chip in the robot, and we’ll need to achieve a lot of efficiencies in the actuators—26 actuators per arm (26 motors, gearboxes, and power electronics). The AI chip might cost $5,000 or $6,000, maybe more. At 1 million units a year, production cost will be $20,000, maybe $25,000. Price will be a function of demand. • Human hands have evolved to be incredibly sophisticated machines. Hands are a very first instrument. You can swing a baseball bat, thread a needle, play a piano or violin, and assemble a car. Hands are incredibly versatile instruments. Most of the muscles of the hands are actually in the forearm, and the hand is almost like a puppet. Human tendon evolution is incredibly good. The human hand has 27 or 28 degrees of freedom, depending on how you count it; it’s amazing. • In order to create a robot that can be a generalized humanoid, you must solve the “hands problem.” • Even though there are 10,000 to 20,000 electric motors out there, we couldn’t buy the actuators for any amount of money. We had to design every electric motor, gearbox, and controlling electronics from scratch, from first principles of physics. • Optimus is harder than developing any previous Tesla product, but not harder than Starship. • Right now, we’re struggling with the final design of the hardware, primarily the hand. The hands and forearm are the majority of the engineering difficulty of the entire robot. • If you want to do all the things that a human can do, it turns out you need a humanoid robot. If you want to do a subset, that’s much easier. Humans evolved to the shape and capability that we have for a good reason. There is value to having four fingers and a thumb; even the pinky is quite useful. Toes are much more of a question mark. • The AI5 inference chip will be 40 times better than AI4 by some measures. We know the limiting factors of the chip because the AI software and hardware teams work so closely. Effectively, the Tesla AI hardware and software teams are co-designing the chip. • The Softmax function on AI4 takes 40 steps in emulation mode, which will take only a few steps in AI5 natively. AI5 will easily handle mixed precision. • In terms of nominal raw compute, the AI5 inference chip has 8 times more compute, 9 times more memory, and 5 times more memory bandwidth compared to AI4. Because we’re addressing some core limitations and optimizations at the silicon level, we’re able to realize 40x improvements.

Everything Elon said about Optimus at the All-In Summit today: • We’re finalizing the design of Optimus v3. That release is going to be a very remarkable robot. It will have manual dexterity comparable to a human, meaning a very complex hand, an AI mind that can navigate and comprehend reality, and will be made in very high volume. • Other robotics companies are missing those three very hard things. • I spend more mental cycles on Optimus than any other single thing. Solving real-world AI, all of the electrical-mechanical issues, the supply chain, and production challenges. • There is no supply chain for humanoid robots, so it has to be created from scratch, which requires a lot of vertical integration. None of the actuators in Optimus are available from an existing supply chain. • I think if successful, Optimus would be the biggest product ever. • The marginal cost of production, once we hit a million units per year, will probably be around $20,000. It depends on how much we spend on the AI chip in the robot, and we’ll need to achieve a lot of efficiencies in the actuators—26 actuators per arm (26 motors, gearboxes, and power electronics). The AI chip might cost $5,000 or $6,000, maybe more. At 1 million units a year, production cost will be $20,000, maybe $25,000. Price will be a function of demand. • Human hands have evolved to be incredibly sophisticated machines. Hands are a very first instrument. You can swing a baseball bat, thread a needle, play a piano or violin, and assemble a car. Hands are incredibly versatile instruments. Most of the muscles of the hands are actually in the forearm, and the hand is almost like a puppet. Human tendon evolution is incredibly good. The human hand has 27 or 28 degrees of freedom, depending on how you count it; it’s amazing. • In order to create a robot that can be a generalized humanoid, you must solve the “hands problem.” • Even though there are 10,000 to 20,000 electric motors out there, we couldn’t buy the actuators for any amount of money. We had to design every electric motor, gearbox, and controlling electronics from scratch, from first principles of physics. • Optimus is harder than developing any previous Tesla product, but not harder than Starship. • Right now, we’re struggling with the final design of the hardware, primarily the hand. The hands and forearm are the majority of the engineering difficulty of the entire robot. • If you want to do all the things that a human can do, it turns out you need a humanoid robot. If you want to do a subset, that’s much easier. Humans evolved to the shape and capability that we have for a good reason. There is value to having four fingers and a thumb; even the pinky is quite useful. Toes are much more of a question mark. • The AI5 inference chip will be 40 times better than AI4 by some measures. We know the limiting factors of the chip because the AI software and hardware teams work so closely. Effectively, the Tesla AI hardware and software teams are co-designing the chip. • The Softmax function on AI4 takes 40 steps in emulation mode, which will take only a few steps in AI5 natively. AI5 will easily handle mixed precision. • In terms of nominal raw compute, the AI5 inference chip has 8 times more compute, 9 times more memory, and 5 times more memory bandwidth compared to AI4. Because we’re addressing some core limitations and optimizations at the silicon level, we’re able to realize 40x improvements.

The Humanoid Hub

238,630 views • 9 months ago

ELON: OPTIMUS WILL SOON BE BUILT BY OPTIMUS “Here's the thing to understand about humanoid robots in terms of the rate of improvement. You have three exponentials multiplied by each other: an exponential increase in the AI software capability, an exponential increase in the AI chip capability, and an exponential increase in the electromechanical dexterity. The usefulness of the humanoid robot is those three things multiplied by each other. Then you have the recursive effect of Optimus building Optimus. So, you have a recursive, multiplicable, triple exponential.” Source: Elon Musk in Moonshot - Discussion with Peter H. Diamandis, MD and @DavidBlundin, January 2026

ELON: OPTIMUS WILL SOON BE BUILT BY OPTIMUS “Here's the thing to understand about humanoid robots in terms of the rate of improvement. You have three exponentials multiplied by each other: an exponential increase in the AI software capability, an exponential increase in the AI chip capability, and an exponential increase in the electromechanical dexterity. The usefulness of the humanoid robot is those three things multiplied by each other. Then you have the recursive effect of Optimus building Optimus. So, you have a recursive, multiplicable, triple exponential.” Source: Elon Musk in Moonshot - Discussion with Peter H. Diamandis, MD and @DavidBlundin, January 2026

Mario Nawfal

90,152 views • 5 months ago

ELON MUSK: "We’ll probably unveil Optimus Gen 3 in a few months. I think it’s going to be quite surprising to people it’s an incredibly capable robot We are replacing the SX line in Fremont with a million-unit-per-year line for Optimus Because it is a completely new supply chain, there’s really nothing from existing supply chains that exists in Optimus; everything is designed from physics first principles The normal S-curve of manufacturing ramp will be longer for Optimus than it is for products that have at least some portion of an existing supply chain The production rate will be proportionate to the least lucky, least confident part of the entire supply chain Optimus 3 will be a general-purpose robot that can learn by observing human behavior. You can demonstrate a task, verbally describe it, or show it a video, and it will be able to perform that task. It’s going to be a very capable robot."

ELON MUSK: "We’ll probably unveil Optimus Gen 3 in a few months. I think it’s going to be quite surprising to people it’s an incredibly capable robot We are replacing the SX line in Fremont with a million-unit-per-year line for Optimus Because it is a completely new supply chain, there’s really nothing from existing supply chains that exists in Optimus; everything is designed from physics first principles The normal S-curve of manufacturing ramp will be longer for Optimus than it is for products that have at least some portion of an existing supply chain The production rate will be proportionate to the least lucky, least confident part of the entire supply chain Optimus 3 will be a general-purpose robot that can learn by observing human behavior. You can demonstrate a task, verbally describe it, or show it a video, and it will be able to perform that task. It’s going to be a very capable robot."

X Freeze

205,005 views • 5 months ago

Elon Musk today on Optimus robot: • Optimus 3 will by-far be the most advanced robot in the world. “Nothings even close.” • Optimus 3 will start production this summer, with high volume in 2027. “We’re going to try and release a new improved robot design every year.”

Elon Musk today on Optimus robot: • Optimus 3 will by-far be the most advanced robot in the world. “Nothings even close.” • Optimus 3 will start production this summer, with high volume in 2027. “We’re going to try and release a new improved robot design every year.”

Nic Cruz Patane

81,074 views • 3 months ago

Elon Musk: Optimus will build Optimus. “Here's the thing to understand about humanoid robots in terms of the rate of improvement. You have three exponentials multiplied by each other: An exponential increase in the AI software capability, an exponential increase in the AI chip capability, and an exponential increase in the electromechanical dexterity. The usefulness of the humanoid robot is those three things multiplied by each other. Then you have the recursive effect of Optimus building Optimus. So, you have a recursive, multiplicable, triple exponential. Well, not right now, but it will be.” Discussion with Peter Diamandis and Dave Blundin, January 6, 2026

Elon Musk: Optimus will build Optimus. “Here's the thing to understand about humanoid robots in terms of the rate of improvement. You have three exponentials multiplied by each other: An exponential increase in the AI software capability, an exponential increase in the AI chip capability, and an exponential increase in the electromechanical dexterity. The usefulness of the humanoid robot is those three things multiplied by each other. Then you have the recursive effect of Optimus building Optimus. So, you have a recursive, multiplicable, triple exponential. Well, not right now, but it will be.” Discussion with Peter Diamandis and Dave Blundin, January 6, 2026

ELON CLIPS

22,193 views • 1 month ago

Elon Musk: "We’re in the final stages of completion of Optimus 3, which is really going to be by far the most advanced robot in the world, nothing's even close. In fact, I haven’t even sent any demos of robots that are as good as Optimus 3, frankly. We’ll start production on Optimus 3 this summer, but very slow at first. And then probably reach high-volume production around summer next year. We’ll have Optimus 4 design complete by next year like, we will try to release a new robot design every year, an improved robot design every year."

Elon Musk: "We’re in the final stages of completion of Optimus 3, which is really going to be by far the most advanced robot in the world, nothing's even close. In fact, I haven’t even sent any demos of robots that are as good as Optimus 3, frankly. We’ll start production on Optimus 3 this summer, but very slow at first. And then probably reach high-volume production around summer next year. We’ll have Optimus 4 design complete by next year like, we will try to release a new robot design every year, an improved robot design every year."

Mars University

200,756 views • 12 days ago

Elon Musk on Optimus: "Everything in the Optimus robot is designed from Physics First Principles. Its not taken from a catalog. These are custom designed. Everything, literally everything. Optimus is designed to have a lot of intelligence and to have the same electromechanical dexterity, if not higher than a human. It's quite a big robot because it has to carry heavy objects for long periods of time and not overheat or exceed the power of its actuators. It's 5 11, so it's pretty tall and it's got a lot of intelligence. So it's going to be more expensive than a small robot that is not. Over time as Optimus robots build Optimus robots, the cost will drop very quickly."

Elon Musk on Optimus: "Everything in the Optimus robot is designed from Physics First Principles. Its not taken from a catalog. These are custom designed. Everything, literally everything. Optimus is designed to have a lot of intelligence and to have the same electromechanical dexterity, if not higher than a human. It's quite a big robot because it has to carry heavy objects for long periods of time and not overheat or exceed the power of its actuators. It's 5 11, so it's pretty tall and it's got a lot of intelligence. So it's going to be more expensive than a small robot that is not. Over time as Optimus robots build Optimus robots, the cost will drop very quickly."

DogeDesigner

74,329 views • 4 months ago

.@jason saw version 3 of Tesla's Optimus robot: "Two Sunday's ago I went to Tesla with Elon. I saw Optimus 3. I can tell you now, nobody will remember that Tesla ever made a car. They will only remember Optimus and that he is going to make a billion of those. It's going to be the most transformative technology product ever made in the history of humanity."

.@jason saw version 3 of Tesla's Optimus robot: "Two Sunday's ago I went to Tesla with Elon. I saw Optimus 3. I can tell you now, nobody will remember that Tesla ever made a car. They will only remember Optimus and that he is going to make a billion of those. It's going to be the most transformative technology product ever made in the history of humanity."

Sawyer Merritt

1,447,094 views • 5 months ago

Elon Musk: Optimus Will Be Bigger Than the iPhone At Tesla’s 2025 shareholder meeting, Elon Musk positioned Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot, as the biggest product launch of all time, larger than smartphones in impact and scale. He claims it will have the fastest production ramp of any complex manufactured product, targeting one million robots per year initially and scaling to ten million. His vision: every human will want a personal robot, with multiple industrial units for every household. Musk argues Optimus will surpass the best human surgeons in precision and perform procedures beyond human capability. Tesla’s real breakthrough isn’t the car; it’s positioning itself as a robotics and AI company reshaping labor and healthcare.

Elon Musk: Optimus Will Be Bigger Than the iPhone At Tesla’s 2025 shareholder meeting, Elon Musk positioned Optimus, Tesla’s humanoid robot, as the biggest product launch of all time, larger than smartphones in impact and scale. He claims it will have the fastest production ramp of any complex manufactured product, targeting one million robots per year initially and scaling to ten million. His vision: every human will want a personal robot, with multiple industrial units for every household. Musk argues Optimus will surpass the best human surgeons in precision and perform procedures beyond human capability. Tesla’s real breakthrough isn’t the car; it’s positioning itself as a robotics and AI company reshaping labor and healthcare.

Adams

10,281 views • 24 days ago

Jason Calacanis: Nobody will remember that Tesla ever made a car. They will only remember the Optimus “I visited the Optimus Lab, there were a large number of people working on a Sunday at 10:00am and I saw Optimus 3 I can tell you now nobody will remember that Tesla ever made a car They will only remember the Optimus and that he is going to make a billion of those and it is going to be the most transformative technology product ever made in the history of humanity Because what LLMs are going to enable those products to do is understand the world, and then do things in the world that we don’t want to do” Source: The All-In Podcast

Jason Calacanis: Nobody will remember that Tesla ever made a car. They will only remember the Optimus “I visited the Optimus Lab, there were a large number of people working on a Sunday at 10:00am and I saw Optimus 3 I can tell you now nobody will remember that Tesla ever made a car They will only remember the Optimus and that he is going to make a billion of those and it is going to be the most transformative technology product ever made in the history of humanity Because what LLMs are going to enable those products to do is understand the world, and then do things in the world that we don’t want to do” Source: The All-In Podcast

SMX 🇺🇸

182,697 views • 4 months ago

Everything Elon shared about Optimus in today’s all-hands: ⦿ How does AI × Robotics fit into the sustainable energy future – Sustainable Abundance for All. A future of abundance for all, where anyone can have anything while preserving the beautiful parts of nature. The key to that is AI and robotics – self-driving cars and Optimus. ⦿ The new Optimus, featuring a 22-degree-of-freedom hand and forearm, is now in production. ⦿ Tesla is the only company with all the ingredients for making intelligent humanoid robots at scale. Our robot has a real brain, and we possess expertise in design and manufacturing. ⦿ My prediction is that Optimus will be the biggest product of all time by far. Nothing will even come close – I think it will be ten times bigger than the next biggest product ever made. ⦿ We are aiming to produce 5,000 Optimus robots this year and 50,000 next year. Around the second half of next year, Optimus should be ready for use outside Tesla-controlled environments. After that, we will offer Optimus first to Tesla employees. ⦿ Will the robot take your job? There will be a ratio of people to robots, so you'll effectively end up managing a group of robots. ⦿ Optimus robots are currently being built in Fremont. We also expect to have a bigger Optimus production line in Austin. ⦿ Ultimately, we'll have tens of millions - maybe even 100 million Optimus robots a year.

Everything Elon shared about Optimus in today’s all-hands: ⦿ How does AI × Robotics fit into the sustainable energy future – Sustainable Abundance for All. A future of abundance for all, where anyone can have anything while preserving the beautiful parts of nature. The key to that is AI and robotics – self-driving cars and Optimus. ⦿ The new Optimus, featuring a 22-degree-of-freedom hand and forearm, is now in production. ⦿ Tesla is the only company with all the ingredients for making intelligent humanoid robots at scale. Our robot has a real brain, and we possess expertise in design and manufacturing. ⦿ My prediction is that Optimus will be the biggest product of all time by far. Nothing will even come close – I think it will be ten times bigger than the next biggest product ever made. ⦿ We are aiming to produce 5,000 Optimus robots this year and 50,000 next year. Around the second half of next year, Optimus should be ready for use outside Tesla-controlled environments. After that, we will offer Optimus first to Tesla employees. ⦿ Will the robot take your job? There will be a ratio of people to robots, so you'll effectively end up managing a group of robots. ⦿ Optimus robots are currently being built in Fremont. We also expect to have a bigger Optimus production line in Austin. ⦿ Ultimately, we'll have tens of millions - maybe even 100 million Optimus robots a year.

The Humanoid Hub

38,836 views • 1 year ago

Elon Musk: Optimus is awesome! “Something that's going to be very important in the future is combining deep AI in the data center or supercluster with robotics, like the Optimus humanoid robot. Optimus is awesome! There's going to be so many humanoid robots and robots of all sizes and shapes. But my prediction is that there will be more humanoid robots by far than all other robots combined by maybe an order of magnitude, like a big difference.” Interview at Y Combinator, June 16, 2025

Elon Musk: Optimus is awesome! “Something that's going to be very important in the future is combining deep AI in the data center or supercluster with robotics, like the Optimus humanoid robot. Optimus is awesome! There's going to be so many humanoid robots and robots of all sizes and shapes. But my prediction is that there will be more humanoid robots by far than all other robots combined by maybe an order of magnitude, like a big difference.” Interview at Y Combinator, June 16, 2025

ELON CLIPS

23,613 views • 10 months ago

ELON: HUMANOID ROBOTS WILL OUTNUMBER OTHER ROBOTS BY FAR “Something that's going to be very important in the future is combining deep AI in the data center or supercluster with robotics, like the Optimus humanoid robot. Optimus is awesome. There's going to be so many humanoid robots and robots of all sizes and shapes. But my prediction is that there will be more humanoid robots by far than all other robots combined by maybe an order of magnitude, like a big difference.” Source: Interview at Y Combinator, June 2025

ELON: HUMANOID ROBOTS WILL OUTNUMBER OTHER ROBOTS BY FAR “Something that's going to be very important in the future is combining deep AI in the data center or supercluster with robotics, like the Optimus humanoid robot. Optimus is awesome. There's going to be so many humanoid robots and robots of all sizes and shapes. But my prediction is that there will be more humanoid robots by far than all other robots combined by maybe an order of magnitude, like a big difference.” Source: Interview at Y Combinator, June 2025

Mario Nawfal

89,193 views • 1 year ago

Elon Musk: I call Optimus the "infinite money glitch" because you can use them to make more Optimuses Humanoid robots will improve as there will basically be three things growing exponentially, multiplied by each other recursively You have an exponential increase in digital intelligence, an exponential increase in AI chip capability, and an exponential increase in electromechanical dexterity The usefulness of the robot is roughly those three things multiplied by each other. But then, the robot can start making the robot, so you have a recursive, multiplicative exponential. This is supernova"

Elon Musk: I call Optimus the "infinite money glitch" because you can use them to make more Optimuses Humanoid robots will improve as there will basically be three things growing exponentially, multiplied by each other recursively You have an exponential increase in digital intelligence, an exponential increase in AI chip capability, and an exponential increase in electromechanical dexterity The usefulness of the robot is roughly those three things multiplied by each other. But then, the robot can start making the robot, so you have a recursive, multiplicative exponential. This is supernova"

X Freeze

17,582 views • 4 months ago