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Tesla Is Building Hundreds of Optimus Robots a Week, Every Hand Assembled by a Person, and the Workers Asked to Teach the Robots Their Moves Said They Knew What the Robots Were For
Season 2026
Episode 198
Published 1 week, 3 days ago
Description
The Information reported on Friday, September 25 that Tesla has raised Optimus output about tenfold to several hundred robots a week at its converted Fremont line, but that each hand and forearm still takes more than 100 screws and small parts put together manually, the AI takes days to learn a basic task, and most units stay inside Tesla for testing and data collection. Employees asked to wear motion-capture suits complained that they knew the robots were designed to eventually replace them, and Tesla moved the data work to dedicated teams.
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