Tesla keeps buying Virtuix’s Omni One treadmills for Optimus; Figure AI bought one too

The VR treadmill maker says its enterprise systems are being used for humanoid robot teleoperation.

Virtuix disclosed on October 6 that Tesla is placing repeat orders for its Omni One Enterprise systems to support the Optimus humanoid program, and that Figure AI has also purchased an Omni One Enterprise system. The detail appeared in a press release from the Austin-based company — which trades on Nasdaq as VTIX — announcing that founder and CEO Jan Goetgeluk will present at the 2026 Maxim Growth Summit in New York on October 13 and 14.

The use case is humanoid teleoperation: full-body movement on the omnidirectional treadmill becomes control input for a robot, letting human operators steer machines through complex physical tasks and generate training data. It is a small but telling supply-chain detail — two of the most closely watched humanoid programs in the United States are buying the same off-the-shelf locomotion interface instead of building their own.

The rest of the release traces Virtuix’s push beyond consumer gaming. The company says Omni One consumer orders are running at roughly three times the prior-year level after June’s launch of Omni One for Quest in collaboration with Meta, that it has completed a U.S. Air Force AFWERX Phase I SBIR program, and that it has sold systems to the Department of Veterans Affairs and the Navy’s Morale, Welfare and Recreation program. Healthcare pilots include autism therapy for children and rehabilitation.

One caveat applies to the headline claim: the Tesla and Figure purchases are Virtuix’s own statements in its release, and neither Tesla nor Figure has publicly confirmed them.