Tesla ramps Optimus production 10-fold but robot hands are holding Elon back
Tesla (NASDAQ: TSLA) has pushed Optimus production up by about 10 times, but the robot‘s hands are now one of the biggest things slowing Elon Musk’s production plan. Tesla was making only a few dozen humanoid robots each week during the second quarter. That figure has now moved into the hundreds per week, according to The Information. Getting from there to steady mass production is proving harder. Tesla is dealing with supplier limits, failures in automated factory equipment and a difficult hand assembly process. The company wants to reach 1,000 Optimus units per week by the end of the year, before eventually going after an eye-popping target of 20,000 robots every week. The version coming out of Fremont right now is Optimus V3. Tesla made the frame lighter, added better camera systems and changed the body so it looks more like a human than older Optimus models. Underneath that hardware is an AI system trained with more than 500,000 hours of data gathered from real-world activity. That does not mean V3 can simply walk into any building and figure everything out for itself. Its current work is narrow. Tesla has been running the robots through specific jobs inside supervised areas in Palo Alto and on









