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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
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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