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Poor Performance of Tesla Factory Robots
The goal of manufacturing 2,500 Tesla Model 3's per week was falling short by 500 cars/week, and employees had to be "borrowed" from Panasonic in a shared factory to help hand-assemble lithium batteries for Tesla.
- Date it happened
- 2016-10-08
- Organisation involved
- Tesla
- Product, system or model
- Manufacturing robot used in Tesla factories to produce the Model 3 car, performing tasks such as stamping, painting, welding, final assembly, and battery insulation.
Where this came from
- businessinsider.com.au
- news.ycombinator.com
- telegraph.co.uk
- thenextweb.com
- theguardian.com
- arstechnica.com
- qz.com
- cnbc.com
- engadget.com
- usatoday.com
- internetofbusiness.com
- theinquirer.net
- uk.reuters.com
- forbes.com
- washingtonpost.com
- digitaltrends.com
- mashable.com
- bloomberg.com
- wired.com
- twitter.com
- fortune.com
- cnbc.com
- wired.co.uk
- theverge.com
- slate.com
- stuff.co.nz
- theconversation.com
- medium.com
Attribution
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