Tesla has released a new video showing its Optimus humanoid robot completing everyday household tasks entirely on its own — no remote control required.
In the video, Optimus is seen taking out the trash, sweeping with a dustpan, vacuuming, opening a cabinet, tearing off a paper towel, stirring a pot, and even closing curtains. In a more technical task, the robot also correctly identifies a car part (a Model X fore link), selects it from the correct box, and places it on a dolly ramp.
According to Tesla, all of these actions were carried out using a single neural network, trained by watching videos of humans performing the same tasks. That’s a major shift from earlier approaches, which relied heavily on teleoperation or direct programming.
Milan Kovac, who works on Optimus AI at Tesla, said the robot is now learning more efficiently thanks to a recent breakthrough. The team can now transfer learning from human demonstration videos — even if they were captured from a first-person point of view — directly to the robot. This method significantly speeds up training and allows Optimus to learn new actions without requiring manual, hands-on data collection.
Many of these new skills can now be activated using natural language — either by voice or text — and are handled by the same multitasking AI model running on the robot.
The next step, according to Kovac, is to teach Optimus from third-person videos found across the internet and to improve its reliability through reinforcement learning in real or simulated environments.
Tesla is continuing to recruit engineers and AI specialists to push Optimus development forward, calling it one of the “biggest real-world applications” of artificial intelligence.
