Mass Production of the Tesla Optimus Gen 3

Musk has promised it.

The Tesla Optimus Gen 3 enters the final phase of development and pilot production, making it clear that it is no longer an experiment, but a product in preparation for the real world. The third generation of the Optimus was designed with a very specific objective, to execute human tasks with a fluidity close to that of an ordinary person, both in industrial and domestic environments and that starts with the hands.

The robot now has hyper-dexterous hands capable of performing extremely delicate movements such as manipulating fragile objects or executing tasks with millimeter precision. The true differential of the Optimus is not only in the hardware, it is trained using the same brain that drives Tesla cars.

This makes it viable for full factory shifts or long home routines.

Recent demonstrations show the robot running, maintaining balance, advancing, even executing movements inspired by martial arts, something unthinkable for commercial humanoid robots until recently, physically, the Optimus Gen 3 comes even closer to the human scale with about 1.77 cm in height, just over 70 kg and a battery life of up to 10 hours of continuous work.

This makes it viable for full shifts in factories or long domestic routines and is precisely where Tesla is testing the robot, before any sale to the public, the first units are being implemented within the company's own factories, performing repetitive tasks on the assembly line. It is a clear strategy, testing economic efficiency before scaling.

Elon Musk has already made his ambition explicit, the target price of the Optimus Gen 3 when mass production begins should be between $20,000 and $30,000, the value of a popular car. To sustain this, Tesla plans to launch a new production line in 2026 dedicated exclusively to humanoid robots, Musk stating that in the future the world will be a place where millions of robots cook, clean, work and take care of basic day-to-day tasks.