Tesla (Optimus) patents
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3 US documents · 0 granted, 3 applications · since Apr 14, 2025 · Google Patents + USPTO ODP · US filings only
Compare · US filings only · published or granted since Apr 14, 2025
- Figure AI101
- Agility Robotics46
- Apptronik15
- Tesla (Optimus)3 robot-related
Applications and grants are counted separately, so one invention can appear twice. An ~18-month publication lag means these counts trail R&D. Tesla’s figure is robot-related only (vehicle parts excluded).
Actuators and joints · 2
Actuator layout and a knee joint for a humanoid-style robot. They likely relate to Optimus, though these documents do not name it (inference).
Actuator and actuator design methodology
A robot movement system using one type of actuator at the torso, shoulders and hips and a different type elsewhere in the body.
Systems and methods for a robot knee joint assembly
A robot knee joint built from pivoting link members that connect the upper and lower leg.
On-robot computing · 1
Reduced-precision (quantized) math for an automated robotic system, which likely helps run AI models efficiently on the robot (inference).
Systems and methods for quantizing floating-point values during operation of an automated robotic system
A way of quantizing floating-point values on a robot: shifting bits from exponent to mantissa and scaling by the largest value, before feeding the data to an on-board neural network.
As of . Data: US publications via Google Patents and the USPTO Open Data Portal (ODP). Summaries come from the published abstract (and, for some recent filings, the first claim); claim scope can be narrower or different. Theme groupings and product links are our inference; a filing does not mean the design is in a shipping product.