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Tesla Offers New Employment Opportunities for Humanoid Robot Optimus
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New Employment Opportunities for Tesla’s Humanoid Robot Optimus
Tesla is hiring people to train its humanoid robot Optimus by wearing motion capture suits and mimicking the actions that the robot is expected to perform. The position listed on Tesla’s career site is called “Data Collection Operator.” This position offers a wage of up to $48 per hour and requires employees to walk for seven hours a day, carry loads of up to about 14 kilograms (30 pounds), and wear a virtual reality (VR) headset for extended periods.
Applicants are expected to have a height between 170 cm and 180 cm to potentially match the anticipated height of Optimus, which is 172 cm. Tesla’s official Optimus X account had previously explained the requirements for this role. Business Insider reported that Tesla hired more than 50 employees for this position last year.
Motion capture is a common and often cost-effective method for training robots to perform human-like movements. However, it is noted that Tesla is one of the first companies to carry out such a training process on this scale. Some videos published online show Optimus performing various tasks, but Animesh Garg, a senior researcher at Nvidia Research, stated in an interview with Business Insider that Optimus may require millions of hours of data to be ready to work at Tesla factories. Garg said the following about this matter:
“The amount of data collection you need could easily reach half a billion dollars, and the real question is, ‘Even if you do this, will you be successful?’ Because there’s no guarantee of success.”
This situation is a quite common scenario for humanoid robots and the artificial intelligence systems that support them, as the training process for such systems requires a challenging process. Although Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised that truly useful robots will enter production next year, neither Optimus nor competitors like Boston Dynamics, Figure, and Apptronik seem very close to completion at this time.