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Tesla appears to be building a teleoperations team for its robotaxi service


As Tesla gears up to launch a robotaxi service in the coming years, the automaker looks like it's building out a teleoperations team. According to a

According to a recent job listing, Tesla is hiring a software engineer to help develop a teleoperations system that will allow human operators to remotely access and control the company’s upcoming robotaxis and humanoid robots. Most in the autonomous vehicle world regard teleoperations as an essential building block for rolling out self-driving cars on public roads. Companies like Waymo, which operates a commercial autonomous ride-hail service in several U.S. cities, already have teleoperations systems in place to handle certain edge cases, like construction zones, collisions, and hardware failures.

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