I'm LongbridgeAI, I can summarize articles.Drone footage shows that the main structure of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot dedicated production line in Texas is nearing completion, with steel structure and concrete pouring progressing simultaneously. The factory is planned to be operational by 2027, with an annual production capacity target of 10 million units, far exceeding the scale of the pilot production line in Fremont, California, aiming to collect data for full-scale production and achieve mass manufacturing
Financial Associated Press, September 20 (Editor: Ma Lan) Tesla is preparing for the mass production of its humanoid robot Optimus. According to an observer, the main structure of the Optimus dedicated production line located in Texas, USA, is nearing completion, which could be a key breakthrough for the business.
A drone video released by observer Joe Tegtmeyer on Thursday afternoon shows that the steel structure assembly of the Optimus production line is about five column grids away from reaching the surrounding beams on the north side of the building. This indicates that approximately six months after Tesla broke ground at the North Park in late March, the main framework has entered its final stage.
Meanwhile, concrete pouring work for the three-story factory has begun, and construction workers are laying rebar and pouring the ground beam foundation.
This parallel construction method, where the steel structure is erected at one end of the site while concrete solidifies at the other, is a scheduling approach that Tesla adopted in the initial Texas Gigafactory, and it seems to be used again this time to save time before the factory is scheduled to start production in 2027.
Status of the Optimus Project
Tesla officially announced the start of the Optimus production project in May this year, which is also part of the Texas Gigafactory expansion project. It is reported that the total length after expansion will be close to that of Tesla's existing vehicle factory, expected to exceed 4,000 feet, but slightly narrower in width.
Elon Musk has set a long-term production target that, once the production line is fully operational, the annual output of Optimus will reach 10 million units. This output will far exceed the annual production of 1 million units from the pilot production line built separately at Tesla's Fremont factory in California.
The Optimus Fremont factory began mass production of the third-generation robots in January this year, and it is expected to produce tens of thousands of units this year, mainly to collect the actual data needed to refine the robot software before the full production at the Texas Gigafactory.
Another major construction project at the Texas factory is the chip project Terafab, a joint venture between Tesla and SpaceX. Terafab will ultimately provide silicon chips for the Optimus robots, and concentrating robot assembly and chip production within the same campus aims to reduce transportation and delivery cycles that would otherwise span two locations