Tesla Optimus (home plans)

What it's for

The home Optimus is an intention, not a product. Since 2021 Tesla has been developing a humanoid 173 cm tall and weighing 57 kg, controlled by an adapted FSD stack, and today this platform works inside the company's factories. The "for the home" version exists in the company's messaging as a long-term goal. There is no configurator, reservation or delivery contract, as of July 2026.

Home-robot presentations list folding clothes, unloading dishes and vacuuming as the humanoid's tasks. Tesla aims this message at private customers, but no one today sells a real product that will do these things in a Polish apartment. The nearest concrete plan belongs to 1X NEO, in pre-order for about PLN 77,524 (≈ EUR 17,760), likewise with no guarantee of volume deliveries. A humanoid in the home requires a level of safety that no home certification has yet confirmed; workplace safety requirements for robots are described in “Robot Safety Standards”. A robot with cameras in the home also raises privacy questions, which we discuss in “Data Security: Robots with Cameras and the GDPR” (data protection under the EU's GDPR). Musk's statement of a price around USD 20,000 is a distant goal, not an offer.

In the home, today there are vacuums, lawn-mowing robots and educational robots; see homes and home robots. For a Polish customer the "Optimus for the home" product simply does not exist, neither as an offer nor as a date. Current state of knowledge: “Tesla Optimus: What We Actually Know (as of September 2026)”.

Who it's for

This page is for you if you want to know whether it is worth holding off on buying a home robot to wait for Tesla; the answer is no: do not plan home purchases around Optimus, because it is not on offer. It is also for journalists and analysts who compare Musk's claims with real production costs.

It is not for you if: you are looking for a robot for your home this year or next, in which case pick solutions available today from home robots or wait for the results of 1X NEO; you need prices and dates, because there are none; you have concerns about privacy, since a robot with cameras in the home is a separate topic (“Data Security: Robots with Cameras and the GDPR”); or you want a humanoid for work, where machines working in companies are described in “Humanoid Robots in Factories 2026”.

Deployments

Optimus currently works only inside Tesla's factories, not in customers' homes. Documented are cleaning and mowing robots and the first attempts at home humanoids, such as 1X NEO. We have collected home companies and products in home robots and homes. Beware of offers to "reserve" an Optimus from third parties: Tesla takes no reservations, and such offers may be an attempt at fraud.

Compare Tesla's home ambitions with concrete offers. 1X NEO is in pre-order for about PLN 77,524 (≈ EUR 17,760) and aims squarely at the home, though it is not yet selling in volume. Unitree R1 (about PLN 19,000 (≈ EUR 4,350)) is the cheapest humanoid in our catalog, for learning and demos, not for housework. Unitree G1 (about PLN 52,300 (≈ EUR 11,980)) gives you certainty of a market presence and an open specification. Tesla Optimus Gen 2 and Tesla Optimus Gen 3 are further generations of the same family, neither of which is on sale. If you care about a heavy payload in industry rather than at home, reach for Figure 03. None of these robots will fully do the housework, but each is available or has a concrete date, which cannot be said of the home Optimus.

The idea of a "Tesla robot" appeared in August 2021 and included a home goal from the start. Since then came the prototype Tesla Optimus Gen 1 (AI Day, September 2022), a second generation in December 2023 and a third shown in September 2026. In October 2024, at the "We, Robot" event, Musk announced a retail price of about USD 30,000, and in 2025 Optimus was demonstrated to audiences in London and Berlin. The home version, however, is a thread with no breakthrough event yet: there is no launch date or reservation, and observers point to the end of 2027 as the earliest date. We keep the chronology in “Tesla Optimus: What We Actually Know (as of September 2026)” and at Tesla.