Tesla's Optimus falls short of targets

Tesla reportedly produced several hundred robots a week last month, far below its goal of making twenty thousand Optimus robots per week.

Repurposed car lines create new problems

Tesla repurposed its Model S and Model X production lines for Optimus earlier this year, but this strategy is reportedly creating manufacturing snags with parts alignment.

Optimus parts demand extreme precision

Optimus parts are much smaller and must fit together far more precisely than car parts, creating challenges the new production lines were not designed to handle.

“Not only are the Optimus production lines new, but the Optimus parts are much smaller and have to fit together far more precisely than car parts.”

Hands still need manual assembly

The V three Optimus robots currently in production have hands and forearms with more than one hundred screws and small components requiring manual worker assembly.

Musk promised the biggest product ever

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has said Optimus will be Tesla's biggest product of all time, but the robots are currently used only internally for specific tasks in limited areas.

“biggest product of all time”

Tesla plans to lease, not sell robots

Tesla reportedly plans to lease Optimus robots initially rather than selling them, using training data collected to improve the robots before wider deployment.