The Tesla bot isn't superhuman yet, but it can make dinner
A week ago we saw Tesla's Optimus robot showing off some nifty dance moves. This week, you can watch it performing a bunch of mundane tasks, though admittedly with a great deal of skill — for a humanoid robot.
Instructed via natural language prompts, the so-called 'Tesla bot' is shown in a new video dumping trash in a bin, cleaning food off a table with a dustpan and brush, tearing off a sheet of paper towel, stirring a pot of food, and vacuuming the floor, among other tasks.
I'm not just dancing all day, ok pic.twitter.com/rKs5WwKjvf — Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) May 21, 2025
The performance may not shake the world of humanoid robotics to its core, but it nevertheless shows the kind of steady progress that Tesla engineers are making, with the bot's actions and movements becoming evermore complex.
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Commenting on the latest clip, Optimus team boss Milan Kovac said in a post on X: 'One of our goals is to have Optimus learn straight from internet videos of humans doing tasks.' Just to be clear, that doesn't mean the robot will literally watch videos like a human. Instead, it suggests that the robot will learn from the vast amount of data available in those videos, such as demonstrations of tasks, movements, or behaviors.
Kovac said that his team recently had a 'significant breakthrough' that means it can now transfer 'a big chunk of the learning directly from human videos to the bots (1st- person views for now),' explaining that this allows his team to bootstrap new tasks much more quickly compared to using teleoperated bot data alone.
Next, the plan is to make Optimus more reliable by getting it to practice tasks on its own — either in the real world or in simulations — using reinforcement learning, a method that improves actions through trial and error.
Tesla boss Elon Musk, who has spoken enthusiastically of Optimus ever since the company first announced it in 2021, has claimed that 'thousands' of the robots may one day be deployed alongside human staff at Tesla factories, taking care of 'dangerous, repetitive, [and] boring tasks.'
The company, better known for making electric cars than humanoid robots, is racing against a growing number of tech firms globally that are intent on commercializing their humanoid robots, whether for the workplace, home, or perhaps some entirely new human-robot ecosystems yet to be imagined.
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