Tesla's Optimus 'robot university' running for months: 24-lb suits, 40 cameras for training data
Scobleizer · x · 2026-10-28
Scoble's physical AI panel agreed Tesla is the leader to beat in both the US and China.
He also relayed a leak about Optimus's training regime: workers at Tesla's Palo Alto R&D facility have been running a "robot university" teleoperation data-collection program for many months, contradicting reports that it just started. Workers wear 24-pound suits with up to 40 cameras and grids of 3D sensors to capture detailed video and 3D fields of their movements, in multiple configurations.
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