The Information: Tesla factory workers balk at wearing motion-capture suits to train the Optimus robots meant to replace them
Ars Technica / The Information (corroborated by Electrek, Physical AI News) / Hacker News (10pts, 8 comments)·medium signal
According to The Information, as reported by Ars Technica on September 26, Tesla had factory workers in Texas and California record their movements in special suits. After workers complained that the robots were designed to replace them, Tesla moved data collection to dedicated teams with their own training hub. The report also says Optimus hands are still a problem, to the point that Tesla built a replaceable glove-like sensor layer, and that the robots still need task-specific programming in controlled settings. Electrek separately reported on September 25 that production is ramping to hundreds a week while generalization lags.