Tesla plans to start training Optimus at its Austin factory

"Tesla told workers during a town hall last week that it plans to begin collecting data to train its humanoid robot at its Austin Gigafactory, insiders told Business Insider. The company is looking to train Optimus how to operate in the Texas facility, it said, adding that it was targeting a February start date. Tesla has been collecting data and training Optimus prototypes in its Fremont, California, factory for more than a year."

"The Optimus data collectors in Fremont are typically kept separate from the general factory workers to avoid interfering with output, people with knowledge of the program said. There, data collectors have recorded themselves organizing vehicle parts and working on conveyor belts. The videos are then used to teach Optimus how to mimic the same movements. CEO Elon Musk said during an interview at Davos on Thursday that Tesla has the humanoid robot doing "simple tasks" in its factory, though he didn't specify which."

""By the end of this year I think they'll be doing more complex tasks but still deployed in an industrial environment," he said. "By the end of next year I think we'll be selling humanoid robots to the public.""

Tesla plans to begin collecting data at its Austin Gigafactory to train Optimus humanoid robots, targeting a February start. The company has been collecting data and training Optimus prototypes at its Fremont factory for more than a year. Optimus data collectors in Fremont are kept separate from general factory workers; they recorded themselves organizing vehicle parts and working on conveyor belts, and the videos are used to teach Optimus to mimic movements. Optimus units are performing simple industrial tasks now, with plans for more complex tasks by year-end and consumer sales by next year. Production of Optimus and the Cybercab will be agonizingly slow.

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