>The Automation Factor Tesla’s response to labor pressure has always been more automation. In 2026, Giga Berlin is the pilot site for the "Optimus" Gen-3 integration—humanoid robots performing repetitive tasks in the battery pack assembly area.
Tesla beat Hyundai and BMW to this meaningless announcement a year ago, and have already progressed from that to the inevitable “oh yeah, this doesn’t actually work yet.”
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>The Automation Factor Tesla’s response to labor pressure has always been more automation. In 2026, Giga Berlin is the pilot site for the "Optimus" Gen-3 integration—humanoid robots performing repetitive tasks in the battery pack assembly area.
https://www.teslaacessories.com/blogs/news/the-giga-berlin-s...
Tesla beat Hyundai and BMW to this meaningless announcement a year ago, and have already progressed from that to the inevitable “oh yeah, this doesn’t actually work yet.”
Give Hyundai and BMW time.
It's coming, next year, there will be a million of them.
On the moon or on Mars?
There are already 2M robots on Mars, Elon is working on a space mission to bring 1M back.
In the mountains of Iran and stepps of Ukraine, I fear… and before you downvote, consider that starlink are in both, already.