Head-to-head
Figure 03 vs Tesla Optimus
Verdict
Both pass our documentation bar. Neither is sold off-the-shelf to general buyers yet — choose by deployment model and use-case. See the full table below, then each robot's profile.
| Spec | Figure 03 | Tesla Optimus |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | Research / limited | Research / limited |
| Price | No published price | No official price |
| Mobility | Bipedal | Bipedal |
| Height | ~173 cm | 1.73 m |
| Weight | Not published by Figure — stated only as ~9% lighter than Figure 02 | 57 kg |
| Payload | Not published for Figure 03 | ~20 kg |
| Degrees of freedom | Reported ~60 total, 20 per hand | ~28 body actuators |
| Speed | Not published by Figure | ~2.2 m/s |
| Battery / runtime | 5 h | 2.3 kWh pack |
| Hands | Two hands with embedded palm cameras + tactile fingertips sensing ~3 g force | 22 DOF per hand per patent filings — not a specification of any publicly shown unit |
| Teleoperation | unknown | Yes - mocap-suit operators used in public demos |
| US relevance | High - US company | High - US manufacturer, production planned Fremont CA & Giga Texas |
| Confidence | 78 | 62 |