{"id":36134,"date":"2025-05-27T11:21:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T03:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/?p=36134"},"modified":"2025-05-27T11:21:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T03:21:10","slug":"%e7%89%b9%e6%96%af%e6%8b%89%e5%89%8d%e6%9c%ba%e5%99%a8%e4%ba%ba%e9%a1%b9%e7%9b%ae%e8%b4%9f%e8%b4%a3%e4%ba%ba%ef%bc%9aoptimus-%e7%9a%84%e5%bd%a2%e6%80%81%e5%b9%b6%e4%b8%8d%e9%80%82%e5%90%88","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/36134.html","title":{"rendered":"Tesla's ex-robotics program leader: Optimus is not the right form to \"work in a factory\""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>May 27 News.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e7%89%b9%e6%96%af%e6%8b%89\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [Tesla]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Tesla<\/a>In an interview with Business Insider, former head of the robotics program Chris Valenti noted that<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/optimus\" title=\"[See articles with [Optimus] label]\" target=\"_blank\" >Optimus<\/a> this kind of<a href=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/tag\/%e4%ba%ba%e5%bd%a2%e6%9c%ba%e5%99%a8%e4%ba%ba\" title=\"[View articles tagged with [humanoid robot]]\" target=\"_blank\" >Humanoid Robot<\/a>Not suitable for use in a factory environment.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-36135\" title=\"74712eb7j00swwhai001ud000v900lip\" src=\"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/74712eb7j00swwhai001ud000v900lip.jpg\" alt=\"74712eb7j00swwhai001ud000v900lip\" width=\"1125\" height=\"774\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Valenti said that while humanoid robots are cutting-edge and hold great potential, their humanoid design<strong>Not very efficient in scenarios such as warehousing, logistics and manufacturing<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Valenti was responsible for the formation and development of the Optimus program. In his opinion, this form is not practical. Industrial operations tend to be highly repetitive tasks.<strong>Efficiency and speed<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Before leaving Tesla, Valenti worked for the company for seven years, and in 2022 he founded Mytra, a company that builds \"slab-like\" robots that can move and transport goods anywhere on a warehouse grid, according to 1AI. He says it's much simpler than a humanoid robot.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that humanoid robots<strong>Multiple times more complex than self-driving cars<\/strong>, because general-purpose robots need to cope with richer action scenarios. \"We're not at the stage where we can actually deploy humanoid robots. It's more like the final stage of technology development, and we're still in the beginning stages.\"<\/p>\n<p>Valenti makes the analogy that \"the human body evolved to escape from the<strong>Not for duplication of effort<\/strong>. So why take this kind of<strong>Inherently unsuited to repetitive labor patterns<\/strong>to do duplicate labor?\"<\/p>\n<p>At the start of Model 3 production in 2017, Valenti was responsible for removing production bottlenecks. Musk called the experience \"production hell\" at the time, and even slept on the Fremont factory floor to deal with the problems himself.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Tesla tried to rely on automated robots to significantly increase production capacity, but the reality is not ideal. Musk later admitted on X that over-automation was \"a mistake\".<\/p>\n<p>Valenti recalls, \"The automation ambitions at the time were too great, and the system clearly couldn't handle it.\" He and his team spent nine months redesigning a cleaner and more workable robotics system.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 27, 2011 - Tesla's former head of robotics, Chris Valenti, pointed out in an interview with Business Insider that humanoid robots like Optimus are not suitable for factory environments. Valenti said that although humanoid robots are cutting-edge and have great potential, their humanoid design is not efficient in scenarios such as warehousing, logistics, and manufacturing. Valenti was responsible for the formation and development of the Optimus program. In his view, this form is not practical. Industrial operations are mostly highly repetitive tasks that are about efficiency and speed. 1AI understands that before leaving Tesla, Valenti had been with the company for seven years, and in 2022, he founded Mytra, a company that builds a \"board-like\" robot that can move around in a warehouse grid and transport goods.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[146],"tags":[1131,907,1341],"collection":[],"class_list":["post-36134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-optimus","tag-907","tag-1341"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36134"},{"taxonomy":"collection","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.1ai.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collection?post=36134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}