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Tech Giants Race to Collect Human Movement Data for Humanoid Robots
Tesla plans to produce 5,000 Optimus robots in 2025 to address labor shortages in factories, with goals to scale to millions by 2029, leveraging AI and neural networks.
- Inside Tesla's labs, engineers recorded human demonstrations to build a natural motion library used to train Optimus robot for walking, balancing, object manipulation, and navigating terrain.
- Tesla and CEO Elon Musk aim to use Optimus to address labor shortages and operate factories, targeting 5000 units in 2025 with goals of 10000 to 12000 and 50000 units later.
- The Optimus robot runs on a central AI chip and end-to-end neural networks, with a self-driving computer in its chest, a 2.3 kilowatt-hour battery, and can deadlift 150 pounds, carry 45 pounds at 5 miles per hour.
- Scale's Data Engine supplies annotated robotics datasets and has completed more than 100,000 production hours at its San Francisco prototyping laboratory to accelerate Physical AI development.
- Production faces supply-chain hurdles after China's export restrictions, and Tesla sought an export license; timeline remains uncertain though models could arrive sooner, with speculation Optimus may converse `one day soon`.
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