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Tesla is hiring people to do the robot
Specifically to don MoCap suits to train how Optimus moves.
Tesla is employing people to help train its humanoid Optimus robot by wearing motion-capture suits and mimicking actions that it will be expected to perform. “The amount of data collection you’d need would easily be half a billion dollars and the real question is ‘Even if you do that, do you succeed?’ Because there is no guarantee of success,” Garg said. While Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised to have “genuinely useful” bots in production next year(a timeline he himself has admitted is mostly guesswork), Optimus currently doesn’t seem any closer to completion than the rival offerings from Boston Dynamics, Figure, and Apptronik being tested by other vehicle manufacturers.
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