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This is really incredible!
The Tesla Optimus Robot has just taken a giant leap forward….literally. It can now run!
You might not realize it until you really think about it, but running is really an incredible act.
We think it’s easy because we’ve done it our whole lives, but to run you have to have both feet in the air at certain times and then catch yourself on one foot as you come down with balance.
Hard metal feet?
Not gonna work.
Missing balance?
Not gonna work.
And while previous videos show the Optimus walking around slowly like Joe Biden with his Dementia shuffle, the new Optimus is peppy!
Check this out:
Just set a new PR in the lab pic.twitter.com/8kJ2om7uV7
— Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) December 2, 2025
The progress in just 2.5 years is stunning!
Watch here:
Tesla Optimus Robot’s incredible progress after only 2.5 years. pic.twitter.com/ESTXSofJha
— Nic Cruz Patane (@niccruzpatane) December 2, 2025
Incredible progress has also been made on the hand, which is the major bottleneck right now….but not for long!
The hand looks nearly solved.
Check out these tendons!
The Tesla Optimus hand is insane. It’s got tendons even! pic.twitter.com/GO9V4FFFU7
— Paul Yacoubian (@PaulYacoubian) December 3, 2025
The main competitor to the Tesla Optimus is the Figure Robot.
And the competition looks steep because Figure has also recently learned to run.
Here are both bots running in a side-by-side video:
Figure 03 and Optimus side by side running comparison. pic.twitter.com/0JjRVsJAdk
— Tesla King (@TeslaKing420) December 4, 2025
They both look REALLY good!
Hard to distinguish which one is better if I’m being honest.
Also, they both seem to have “toes”….
Check this out:
— Ben Pielstick (@BenPielstick) December 4, 2025
Really incredible work by both teams!
I want one so bad!
More on the Figure 03 Bot here:
WATCH: Stunning Home Robot Ready To Do Your Dishes For $20,000!
Oh my goodness, we are truly living in the future!
Meet the Figure 03, a brand new robot from Figure AI designed specifically to work inside your home.
In other words, picking up, vacuuming, doing the laundry, doing the dishes, you name it!
While you’re at work all day long, your Figure 03 can be at home getting the house in perfect order for you when you come home later that evening!
Look, I’m not selling these, I have no affiliation with the company, I just think they’re FREAKING COOL!
I can’t wait to get one.
And the best part is while they’re not available for purchase yet, rumors have the price tag at $20,000. Which I understand is no small chunk of change, but significantly less than a basic car these days.
I’m already saving up my pennies and dimes now so I am ready when they finally go on sale!
Watch this video and I think you’ll understand why I’m so excited:
Can I get like 5 of these in my house please?
I LOVE IT!
Image they clean your whole house, clean up after the dog, take the dog on a walk, and then tend to your every need when you come home after work.
Oh, and already have a nice dinner cooked for you and the fam!
We truly are living in the Jetsons future and it’s even better than expected!
Here’s more on how it all works, direct from the Figure AI website:
Today we’re introducing Figure 03, our 3rd generation humanoid robot. Figure 03 is designed for Helix, the home, and the world at scale. Our goal is to deliver a truly general-purpose robot – one that can perform human-like tasks and learn directly from people. To realize this vision, our engineering and design teams completed a ground-up hardware and software redesign to ship Figure 03 for:
Helix: Figure 03 features a completely redesigned sensory suite and hand system which is purpose-built to enable Helix – Figure’s proprietary vision-language-action AI.
The home: Figure 03 has several new features, including soft goods, wireless charging, improved audio system for voice reasoning, and battery safety advancements that make it safer and easier to use in a home environment.
Mass manufacturing: Figure 03 was engineered from the ground-up for high-volume manufacturing. In order to scale, we established a new supply chain and entirely new process for manufacturing humanoid robots at BotQ.
The world at scale: The lower manufacturing cost and the advancements made for Helix have significant benefits for commercial applications.
Designed for Helix
There’s no path to scaling humanoid robots without AI. That’s why we built Figure 03 around one goal – to enable true reasoning throughout the world using Helix. Figure 03 introduces a fully redesigned sensory suite and hand system, purpose-built to bring Helix to life.
Figure 03 introduces a next-generation vision system engineered for high-frequency visuomotor control. Its new camera architecture delivers twice the frame rate, one-quarter the latency, and a 60% wider field of view per camera – all within a more compact form factor. Combined with an expanded depth of field, this architecture provides Helix with a denser, more stable perceptual stream. These advancements are essential for intelligent navigation and precise manipulation in complex, cluttered spaces such as homes.
Each hand now integrates an embedded palm camera with a wide field of view and low-latency sensing, which offers redundant, close-range visual feedback during grasps. These cameras allow Helix to maintain visual awareness even when the main cameras are occluded (i.e. when reaching into a cabinet or working in confined spaces) and enable continuous, adaptive control in real time.
The Figure 03 hands represent a major leap in compliant and tactile design. Softer, more adaptive fingertips increase surface contact area, enabling more stable grasps across objects of varied shapes and sizes. After surveying existing market options, Figure found that current tactile sensors had inherent limitations that could not withstand real-world use. This led to the internal development of our first-generation tactile sensor, guided by three principles: extreme durability, long-term reliability, and high-fidelity sensing.
Each fingertip sensor can detect forces as small as three grams of pressure – sensitive enough to register the weight of a paperclip resting on your finger. This precision enables Helix to distinguish between a secure grip and an impending slip before it occurs, allowing fine-grained, dexterous control over fragile, irregular, or moving objects.
Figure 03 also includes 10 Gbps mmWave data offload capability, allowing the entire fleet to upload terabytes of data for continuous learning and improvement. Together, these advancements position Figure 03 as uniquely capable of large-scale, end-to-end pixels-to-action learning.
Designed for the Home
To operate effectively in the home, a robot must work seamlessly alongside people in their daily environments. With this in mind, Figure 03 introduces several design improvements focused on safety. It features strategically placed multi-density foam to protect against pinch points, and is covered in soft textiles rather than hard machined parts. Figure 03 also has 9% less mass and significantly less volume than Figure 02, making it easier to maneuver through household spaces.
The Figure 03 battery pushes the bounds for robot battery safety and incorporates multiple layers of protection against abuse or malfunction, including safeguards at the Battery Management System (BMS), cell, interconnect, and pack levels. The battery has already achieved certification to the UN38.3 standard.
Beyond safety, Figure 03 is designed for everyday usability. The soft goods are fully washable and can be removed or replaced without tools, allowing quick and easy swaps. The robot can also be customized with various clothing options, including garments made from cut-resistant and durable materials.
To make it easier to communicate naturally with the robot, Figure 03 features an upgraded audio hardware system for better real time speech-to-speech. Compared with Figure 02, its speaker is twice the size and nearly four times more powerful, while the microphone has been repositioned for improved performance and clarity.
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