Morning Edition · Thursday, July 23, 2026Published at 2:03 AM EDT · New York
Tesla Will Record Grünheide Workers' Movements to Train Optimus
From August, selected staff at the German gigafactory wear backpack-mounted cameras that capture how they grip tools and handle parts for imitation learning.
Tesla plans to collect real-world training data for its Optimus humanoid at the Gigafactory in Grünheide, Germany. According to a Russian-language brief on AI ML Big Data and reporting by electrive, selected employees will wear backpack-mou…
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