Tesla "Optimus" Robot
Latest generation bot on display at their Scottsdale, Arizona Tesla showroom
Aug. 08 2023
The Tesla Bot was first announced by Elon Musk to the public at their Artificial Intelligence Day event on August 19, 2021.
For years, many companies including Sony, Hyundai, Honda, Boston Dynamics, Samsung, Amazon and Google have been working to develope robots that are able to move like humans and work on items and perform taks by way of mechancal claws or hands.
Tesla's goal of creating a humanoid bot is to reduce repetitive, dangerous and boring tasks currently being performed by humans.
The Tesla Optimus robot is learning to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sense everything around it, and to navigate and perform tasks using the same computer and sensor systems the company developed for use in their self-driving Autopilot systems, currently used in their popular electric cars.
Tesla's goal of creating a humanoid bot is to reduce repetitive, dangerous and boring tasks currently being performed by humans.
The Tesla Optimus robot is learning to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sense everything around it, and to navigate and perform tasks using the same computer and sensor systems the company developed for use in their self-driving Autopilot systems, currently used in their popular electric cars.
Tesla Optimus Robot Specs:
- Brain: Tesla SOC AI chip in FSD (Full Self-Driving) computer using Autopilot software. Brain is not located in head, but in bot's chest
- Body: Bipedal, designed to resemble the physical human form. Materials composed of lightweight metals for skeletal structure and limbs, and plastics used for body coverings and misc. internal components
- Hands: 6 actuators, 11 degrees of freedom, adaptive grasp with sensor feedback, metallic tendons in fingers
- Muscles: 28 Tesla electromechanical structural actuators, in 6 unique designs: (rotary in 20Nm, 110Nm, 180Nm with integrated position and torque sensors. And Linear in 500N, 3900N & 8000N with integrated position and force sensors)
- Feet: 2 degrees of freedom (for balance)
- Joints: Biomimetic, mechanically similiar to human joints
- Eyes: Tesla Autopilot multi-camera unit contains wide-angle, standard, and narrow view lenses with three separate CMOS sensors. Visual navigation using Volumetric debth rendering.
- Ears: microphones
- Voice: speaker
- Battery: 52V 2.3kWh battery pack with integrated electronics for cooling and power managment, located in chest area of torso
- Power consumption: 100 watts while sitting, 500 watts while walking at max speed of 5mph
- Top Speed: 5 MPH
- Connectivity: WiFi, LTE (long term evoloution), similiar technology to whats used in cell phones
- Weight: 161 pounds
- Carrying capacity: 20 pounds per hand, 45 lbs total using both hands
- Estimated Cost: Under $20,000
- Estimated availability date: Fall 2027
The brain of the Optimus features a Tesla SOC chip, complete with WI-FI, LTE (long term evoloution), audio, safety and security built in.
Inside the bot's head is an autopilot camera system which are it's eyes, and sends this vision information on the world around it to the computer brain to be analyzed real time.
The bot's body contains a Tesla FSD (Full Self-Driving) computer. The system features multi-cam video neural networks, neural net planning, auto-labeling, FSD hardware, simulation tools, and dojo D1 supercomputer trained artificial intelligence learnings.
Tesla's latest FSD computer will be using chips manufactured by both TSMC and Samsung for their fifth-generation HW5.0 automotive technology systems and robots, allowing for Level-5 autonomous driving. when mass produced in the next 3 to 4 years.
Tesla's main electronic and electrical suppliers are currently Samsung, Qualcomm, Panasonic, Micron, and Ganfeng Lithium. Samsung supplies microchips for self-driving computers, Qualcomm supplies chips for over-the-air technology, Micron supplies memory chips, Panasonic supplies batteries, and Ganfeng Lithium provides lithium for the batteries.
Inside the bot's head is an autopilot camera system which are it's eyes, and sends this vision information on the world around it to the computer brain to be analyzed real time.
The bot's body contains a Tesla FSD (Full Self-Driving) computer. The system features multi-cam video neural networks, neural net planning, auto-labeling, FSD hardware, simulation tools, and dojo D1 supercomputer trained artificial intelligence learnings.
Tesla's latest FSD computer will be using chips manufactured by both TSMC and Samsung for their fifth-generation HW5.0 automotive technology systems and robots, allowing for Level-5 autonomous driving. when mass produced in the next 3 to 4 years.
Tesla's main electronic and electrical suppliers are currently Samsung, Qualcomm, Panasonic, Micron, and Ganfeng Lithium. Samsung supplies microchips for self-driving computers, Qualcomm supplies chips for over-the-air technology, Micron supplies memory chips, Panasonic supplies batteries, and Ganfeng Lithium provides lithium for the batteries.
The initial price point of the Tesla Optimus robot is expected to be relatively inexpensive, around $20,000 each.
The placard on the display reads:
Tesla Bot
2023
Tesla Bot, AKA Optimus, is a humanoid robot designed to complete jobs that are repetitive, boring, or dangerous for humans. Tesla Bot's design was inspired by the human form, so it can use human tools, carry objects and work in factories. Tesla Bot uses the same AI technology as Tesla vehicles, allowing it to navigate the world safely and efficiently.
Tesla Bot
2023
Tesla Bot, AKA Optimus, is a humanoid robot designed to complete jobs that are repetitive, boring, or dangerous for humans. Tesla Bot's design was inspired by the human form, so it can use human tools, carry objects and work in factories. Tesla Bot uses the same AI technology as Tesla vehicles, allowing it to navigate the world safely and efficiently.
The bot has the ability to move all fingers independently, and opposable thumbs with numerous degrees of freedom so it can operate common hand and power tools just like a human would.
The bot is capable of performing complex, human-like motions, including:
- Forward walking
- Squatting and squat walk
- Side stepping
- Turning while walking
- Lifting objects from the ground up to eye level
- Squeezing or gripping and object and lifting it
- Climbing stairs
- Squatting and picking up and object
- Walking on a slope or hill
- Sliding objects
- Using a drill
- Pushing and pulling objects
- Turning with an object
- Using a screwdriver
Tesla hopes that in 3 to 5 years that the Optimus robot will become mass produced in the millions, be readily available, at a relatively low cost, and can be used by companies to perform repetitive job tasks in factories, wharehouses, construction sites, shipping and receiving, landscaping, maintenance, store stocking, janitorial, and more.
Powerful Tesla electromechanical actuators are used througout the robot in place of humaoid muscles. The 52V power supply of the Tesla robot comes from a 2.3 kWh battery located in the chest section of the robot's metal framed torso.
Mounted on the front of Optimus is a Tesla Giga Texas belt buckle, to celebrate the company's main headquarters moving to Gigafactory Texas located near Austin in 2021. The Tesla belt buckle is inscribed with the words "Don’t Mess With", and the Texas Lone Star embossed with the Tesla "T" logo.
Optimus is comparable to an average size human in weight and anatomical form. Standing at 5 ft 8in tall, and weighing 160 lbs. It and can carry around 45 lbs total weight using both hands. The robot can also perform a full deadlift of weight up to 150 lbs. Optimus is expected to have a maximum walking speed of around 5 mph.
The bot is made with lightweight materials throughout (metal frame and skelton, plastic body coverings). It has 2 axis feet joints to help with maintaining balance, and includes force feedback sensing abilities in it's feet and hands using sensors built into it's actuators.
The Optimus robot is currently on static display in select Tesla retail car showrooms in North America and China, including Scottsdale (Phoenix), New York City, Centrury City (Los Angeles).
The Phoenix Arizona Optimus display is located in the front window of the Tesla showroom, inside the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The showroom also features a rotation of some of the latest Tesla electric car models - S,3, X and Y. Customers are welcome to sit in the cars and try them out.
The Phoenix Arizona Optimus display is located in the front window of the Tesla showroom, inside the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall, in Scottsdale, Arizona.
The showroom also features a rotation of some of the latest Tesla electric car models - S,3, X and Y. Customers are welcome to sit in the cars and try them out.
Visitors to the Tesla showroom can see the Optimus robot display on the right as they enter the store.
Tesla showroom inside the Scottsdale Fashion Square Mall:
7014 E Camelback Rd STE 1210, Scottsdale, AZ 85251