Tesla Optimus, tracked: the specs, the price target, the missing order page

Nobody has bought a Tesla Optimus. Not at $20,000, not at any other number, not from Tesla and not from anyone else. As of August 7, 2026 there is no price page, no deposit, no reservation list, and no published figure for how many Optimus units exist. What Tesla has is a floor in Fremont where the Model S and X lines used to be.

This page tracks the four things people want when they type the robot's name: the specs, the price, whether you can order one, and how much of what you see in a clip is the machine driving itself.

Status, August 7, 2026

Field	Where it stands
Consumer price	None. Musk target of $20,000 to $30,000 at volume, stated October 2024
Order channel	None. No cart, no deposit, no waitlist, ever announced
Latest generation shown in public	v2.3, London on December 13 and Berlin on December 20, 2025
V3	Put around the middle of this year on the April 22, 2026 call, then described as arriving closer to production start. Not revealed
Claimed sale date	Public sales by the end of 2027, Musk at Davos on January 22, 2026, conditional on reliability, safety and functionality
Units built, cumulative	Never published by Tesla
Verified consumer deliveries	Zero
Longest published autonomous run	None. Tesla has never stated one
Production	Fremont line targeted for late July or August 2026. No start announced

tesla.com/optimus has returned HTTP 403 to my automated checks on every pass since July 25, 2026, including today, and the Wayback Machine holds no snapshot of it, so I cannot show you the page. What Tesla has never announced, in any channel, is a price, a deposit or a reservation, which is why the tracker entry files the dollar figure as a claim.

The spec sheet, such as it is

Every figure below describes a generation Tesla has demonstrated, not the one it is tooling to build. Tesla publishes no spec sheet I can reach, so these come from the Optimus entry on Wikipedia, loaded August 7, 2026, which is the most complete public collation of what Tesla has said out loud.

Spec	Published figure
Height	5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Weight	125 lb (57 kg)
Carrying capacity	45 lb (20 kg)
Hands	11 degrees of freedom in the 2023 generation, 22 in the 2024 generation
Actuators	Linear actuators built on planetary roller screws rather than ball screws
Battery capacity	Not published
Runtime per charge	Not published
Walking speed	Not published
Onboard compute	Tesla's AI5 chip named for local autonomy in April 2026; conversation at Grok level described as needing a connection out to an external model

Three of the numbers a buyer would want are missing. Runtime decides whether a home robot lasts an afternoon or twenty minutes; speed decides whether it keeps up with a person. Figure publishes all three for the Figure 03, a robot you also cannot buy: five hours, 1.2 m/s, 61 kg, 20 kg payload, right on the product page. A company that will not name a runtime is not sitting on a good one.

The generation numbers do not line up

Four names circulate for roughly three robots. The dated version: a display model at Cyber Rodeo in April 2022, a walking prototype at AI Day that September, the "Gen 2" video in December 2023, hands with 22 degrees of freedom in 2024, and v2.3 greeting people in London and Berlin in December 2025. V3 has never been shown, and the coverage calling the Fremont units Gen 3 is inferring rather than quoting a Tesla spec.

So when a clip is captioned "Optimus 3," ask which one: the 2024 hands, the unrevealed V3, or a v2.3 handing out popcorn.

The price is a target, and its author says so

The $20,000 to $30,000 range dates to October 2024 and has been restated since. It has never been attached to a product you can order, and Musk has hedged it in public: in November 2024 he said getting the cost to $20,000 would be immensely difficult, and tied it to production volume above a million units a year. Tesla only named Fremont as a million-unit line in April 2026, and that is design capacity, not output.

Independent estimates for early units run far higher, the $50,000 to $100,000 and up band that circulates in analyst notes, none of which I have found attached to a named model with a published method.

There is no checkout to apply either range to. The one humanoid actually sold as a home product is the 1X Neo at $20,000 or $499 a month, and the rest of the dated ladder is in what you can actually buy in 2026.

Autonomy: nothing to check

The October 2024 "We, Robot" event became a story because the units mingling with the crowd turned out to be remotely operated without that being made clear up front. The London and Berlin appearances in December 2025 were greetings, popcorn and photographs. On January 28, 2026, six days after telling Davos that Optimus would be sold to the public by the end of next year, Musk admitted that no Optimus robots were doing useful work at Tesla.

A measurable version of the autonomy claim does exist in this industry. Figure states run lengths: a four-minute task, 61 actions, no resets, published January 27, 2026. Whatever you think of a company grading its own homework, a run length is something a skeptic can hold footage against. Tesla has never stated one. Until it does, treat every Optimus clip as unlabelled, and read how autonomous these robots really are for the three words that keep getting blurred together.

Tesla Optimus learning Kung Fu (@elonmusk, 2025-10-04)

Everything dated in 2026 is about the factory

The year's Optimus news is manufacturing news. On the April 22, 2026 earnings call Tesla said the Fremont line was being installed for up to a million robots a year, with a second line at Gigafactory Texas designed for ten million a year from 2027, and warned that initial output would be quite slow across roughly 10,000 unique parts. Model S and X production ended in early May to clear the space. Teslarati reported that the teardown took 46 days (July 10, 2026) and that Musk posted a photo from the Fremont Optimus line on July 1.

Then he set the expectation himself. Reported by Electrek on July 2, 2026, replying to the theory that Tesla is secretly further along: "No, Optimus production will be extremely slow at first, as everything is new. This is not like making a car." On July 30, Optimus lead Ashok Elluswamy corrected the Texas figure upward to 10 million robots a year.

Add it up and 2026 has produced a demolished car line, a photo op, two capacity numbers and one warning. The window Tesla named for the start of production, late July or August, is open right now, and no start has been announced.

The four fields that would change this page

1. A V3 reveal with specs. Runtime, speed, battery, degrees of freedom. Pencilled in for the middle of this year, still absent in month eight.
2. A cumulative build count. Any number Tesla can be held to later. Competitors publish these; Tesla never has.
3. A price page or a reservation. Not a target repeated in an interview. A page with a button.
4. A timed autonomous run. Ideally one measured by someone who does not work at Tesla, in a room Tesla did not set up.

None of the four has ever been filled in. The dated record of what has been promised instead, going back to the person in the spandex suit at the August 2021 reveal, is in Musk's robot claims, archived.

This is one of the most-searched robots in the world and the only entry on our tracker whose row is made entirely of intentions. Every other flagship humanoid has at least one hard number attached to it: a store price, a build count, a named customer with an address. Optimus has a demolition timelapse and a capacity target. Whichever of those four fields fills in first will say more about where the program really is than any stage demo has.