A simple video, lasting just a few seconds, may have repositioned the Tesla Optimus among the fastest humanoid robots in the world and with very fluid movements. The recording shows the humanoid crossing a laboratory at a surprising speed, accompanied by the phrase, "I just broke my personal record", without official figures, but with enough visual data to provoke an immediate reaction in the technical community.

The most detailed analysis came from Scott Walter, who applied pixel-wise measurement using the robots in the background as a reference; the estimated distance of 6.5 m was traveled by Optimus in about 1 second and 71 hundredths. The resulting calculation points to approximately 3.8 m/s, something close to 13.7 km/h. For a humanoid robot, that mark is not trivial, it represents a speed comparable and in some cases superior to platforms that already dispute global leadership, but the figure is only part of the story.

The video shows an even more relevant detail, in human and robotic locomotion, walking means continuously keeping one foot in contact with the ground, running requires breaking that connection, allowing an instant in which no limb touches the ground, that requires rapid dynamic control, fine adjustment of stability and the ability to absorb successive impacts without losing orientation.

It is a conceptual leap that is not hidden in the pictures, the Optimus is technically running, the comparison with competitors helps to measure the impact, Robotera's Star One has already demonstrated 3.6 meters per second and claims that the L7 model can reach 4 m per second. Unitree H1 maintained 3.3, if Walter's estimate is confirmed, the Optima would be positioned above several of those verified milestones, approaching a level reserved for robots and speed and not for systems originally conceived for object manipulation.

The video, however, is a demonstration and a controlled environment, uniform floor, high friction, predictable route, until Tesla releases telemetry or shows sustained performance in varied scenarios, talking about the world's fastest robot remains premature, even so, it is something incontestable.

The barriers that previously limited the Optimus are giving way and that change was recorded frame by frame and the new hands of the Optimus are still missing, whose information will be presented and a future video, now it seems that Tesla entered the game and is facing the Chinese models.