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Sees clutter, not fixtures
Stereo depth plus rolling LiDAR builds a fresh scene model every 40 ms, so a pallet left in the wrong place is an obstacle — not a failed run.
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Gen-3 / Rev. C / Production run 2027
Put a humanoid on the line.
Optimus Gen-3 is a bipedal work platform that picks up your tools, walks your floors and follows your procedures. No retooling. No safety cages. No bespoke end-effectors for every task.
- Standing height
- 1,732mm
- Dry mass
- 68kg
- Rated payload
- 24kg
- Shift runtime
- 9.5h
Sensor dome
Stereo visor
Shoulder yoke
§ 01 — Overview
The floor doesn't change.
The floor doesn't change.
The worker does.
Fixed automation asks the building to adapt: new fixtures, new guarding, new line balance, six months of integration. Gen-3 inverts that. It is shaped like the person who did the job yesterday, so it inherits the workspace as it already exists.
Integration time
11 days
Median from crate to first supervised production task across 14 pilot sites.
Task library
340+
Pre-trained manipulation and locomotion behaviours shipped with every unit.
Fleet uptime
97.4%
Rolling 90-day availability across the Gen-2 fleet still in daily service.
Retooling required
Zero
No fixtures, no floor anchors, no line stoppage. It walks in and starts learning.
Designed backwards,
from the task.
Gen-3 started as a list of 212 jobs our pilot customers could not automate. Every joint, every gear ratio and every gram of the chassis was argued against that list — not against a spec sheet.
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Human-scale reach envelope1,732 mm standing, 512 mm shoulder span — passes any door and aisle a person can.
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Tool-agnostic handsFive-digit manipulators with tactile pads grip the drill, the tote and the clipboard already on site.
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Force-limited by constructionSeries-elastic actuation caps contact force in hardware, not just in software policy.
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Serviceable in the aisleEleven line-replaceable modules. A limb swap is a 6-minute, two-bolt procedure.
§ 02 — Systems
Six subsystems.
Six subsystems.
One body.
Select a marker on the drawing — or a subsystem below — to read the engineering notes for that assembly. Every figure on this page is drawn from the Rev. C production release.
Assembly 01 / 06
Perception head
Placeholder
§ 03 — Capability
What a shift
What a shift
actually looks like.
Gen-3 ships with a behaviour library, not a demo reel. Everything below runs on the standard unit with no additional hardware.
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Uses the tools you own
Five-digit manipulators with 1,100 tactile taxels per palm. Trigger tools, latches, totes and touchscreens — no custom end-effector programme.
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Learns by being shown
A supervisor walks the unit through a task twice in teach mode. The policy generalises across the cell and syncs to every other unit on site.
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Stops before it touches
Dual redundant safety controller, capacitive skin on every proximal link and a certified 118 ms stop from full gait.
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Runs the whole shift
9.5 h nominal duty on a 2.4 kWh pack, or continuous operation with a 90-second hot swap at the dock.
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Thinks on board
All perception and control run locally. Network loss degrades reporting, never motion safety or task execution.
§ 04 — Deployment
Where Gen-2
Where Gen-2
already works.
Figures below are measured from live sites running the previous generation. Gen-3 carries the same behaviour library forward with roughly 1.6× the cycle speed.
Case 4.1
Intralogistics
Tote induction, mixed-case decanting and cycle counting across aisles that were never designed for an AMR footprint.
1,240Picks / shift
0.4%Mis-pick rate
Case 4.2
Line-side supply
Kitting, fastener replenishment and machine tending on legacy cells where guarding a new arm would have cost more than the arm.
18 sMean cycle
3.1×Cells / unit
Case 4.3
Inspection rounds
Gauge reading, valve state checks and thermal sweeps on fixed routes through plant rooms, at night, without lighting changes.
96Points / round
24/7Route coverage
§ 05 — Specifications
Rev. C
Rev. C
datasheet.
Values are nominal at 20 °C on a level datum with a 24 kg payload. Full mechanical and electrical drawings are released under NDA at reservation stage two.
Gen-3 is a general-purpose platform and is not certified for use in explosive atmospheres, in contact with foodstuffs, or as a component of a life-safety system. See the Product Disclaimer.
§ 06 — Safety & autonomy
Autonomy with
Autonomy with
a hand on the brake.
Gen-3 is designed for shared floors. Authority is layered so that the fastest loop is always the one that stops the machine, and a person can always take that loop.
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Hardware safety layerA dual-channel controller independent of the autonomy stack holds torque limits and the stop circuit. It cannot be overridden by a task policy.
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Supervisory autonomyUnits execute assigned tasks independently and escalate anything outside the accepted envelope to a human operator instead of improvising.
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Auditable by defaultEvery motion command, perception frame reference and operator intervention is written to a signed on-board log, retained for 90 days.
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Local-first dataPerception data is processed on board. Nothing leaves the site unless your administrator enables fleet telemetry — see the Privacy Policy.
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Signed, staged updatesFirmware is cryptographically signed and rolls out per-cohort with an automatic rollback on any regression in the safety self-test.
§ 07 — Program
From reservation
From reservation
to first shift.
Reservations are sequenced by build slot, not by order value. You can withdraw at any point before stage four and the deposit is returned in full.
Reserve a slot
A refundable deposit holds a position in the 2027 build queue. No configuration is locked and nothing is charged beyond the deposit.
Technical review
Our applications team reviews your task list against the behaviour library and returns a written feasibility note, with the full datasheet under NDA.
Site survey
A remote or on-site survey of aisles, floor finish, lighting and network. You receive a readiness report and a fixed integration quote.
Commissioning
Units arrive crated and calibrated. Two days of supervised teach-in, then handover to your own operators with 12 months of included support.
§ 08 — Configurations
Three builds.
Three builds.
One platform.
Every configuration shares the same chassis, safety controller and behaviour library. The differences are actuation class, pack capacity and support tier. Indicative list prices, per unit, excluding duties and local taxes.
Gen-3 Core
Single-cell pilots
$72,000Deposit $2,500 — refundable
- 24 kg rated payload, 28 DOF
- 2.4 kWh pack, 9.5 h nominal
- Standard behaviour library
- 12 months business-hours support
Gen-3 Pro
Multi-shift production
$104,000Deposit $5,000 — refundable
- 32 kg payload, high-torque wrists
- 3.6 kWh hot-swap pack + dock
- Teach-mode authoring licence
- Fleet console for up to 25 units
- 24 months 4-hour response
Gen-3 Max
Fleet operations
$149,000Deposit $7,500 — refundable
- Everything in Pro
- Sealed IP54 field chassis
- On-premise policy training node
- Named reliability engineer
Build slots — 2027 run
412 of 1,800 slots remain.
Slots are allocated in the order reservations are confirmed. Deposits are fully refundable until the site survey is signed off.
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§ 09 — Questions
Asked before
Asked before
every pilot.
If your question is not here, write to [email protected] and an applications engineer will answer it directly.
No. The platform is force-limited in hardware and carries capacitive skin on every proximal link, which is what allows it to work on a shared floor. What it does need is a risk assessment for each cell — our applications team produces that with you during stage three, and it is a document exercise rather than a construction one. Floors need no anchors, rails or reflective markers.
Your own supervisors do, using teach mode. A typical pick-and-place or machine-tending task is demonstrated twice and refined once, which takes about 25 minutes end to end. Nothing is written in code. More complex sequences — multi-station kitting, for instance — are composed from library behaviours in the fleet console, and that is a drag-and-drop exercise rather than a programming one.
It stops, holds position and escalates. Gen-3 will not improvise its way through an unrecognised scene: the task policy has a confidence envelope, and anything outside it raises an operator request in the fleet console with a frame of what it is looking at. An operator resolves it in seconds, and that resolution is available to every other unit on site.
It is processed on board and, by default, stays there. Fleet telemetry — task outcomes, fault codes, battery health — is opt-in and configured by your administrator. Raw camera frames are never transmitted unless someone with administrator rights explicitly attaches them to a support ticket. The full account is in our Privacy Policy.
Eleven line-replaceable modules, all accessible with a single hex driver. A forearm or lower-leg swap is a six-minute, two-bolt job that your maintenance team is trained on at commissioning. Consumables — pad sets, filters, the battery pack — have published service intervals, and spares ship from regional stock.
Yes, in full, at any point up to the moment you counter-sign the site survey at stage three. After that the deposit is applied to the unit price and the standard cancellation terms in our Refund & Cancellation Policy take over. We do not hold a reservation you have asked to release.
§ 10 — Reserve
Hold a build slot.
Submitting this form places a non-binding reservation request. Nothing is charged here — an applications engineer confirms your slot and the deposit arrangement by email within two business days.
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