A shipment of 467 Kuka robots is delivered to the Tesla Fremont factory ahead of the planned Model 3 production start in July. A member at the Southeast Traders forum, claiming to be a Field Service Engineer for Kuka Robotics, posted the inside photos (below) of the factory, which is currently setting up production lines with the robots.
The original poster of the photos described that the engineers are going to spend the next several weeks setting up 467 robots and 21 KL slides. Slides are tracks designed to keep the robots planted and level to within .01 mm tolerance.
By looking at the leaked photos, we can get an idea of the seriousness of Elon Musk and Tesla Motors in delivering the long-awaited electric car for the masses, “Tesla Model 3“. This amount of serious effort is required on the side of Tesla to achieve their planned target production of 5000,000 vehicles a year by the end of 2018.
As for Kuka Robots, they are the finest from Germany and hold the power to accelerate production to the maximum possible. Kuka robots using AI can be taught different postures and moves instead of being programmed by the computer. We can see a demo in the video below.
The Alien Dreadnought
Elon Musk has been mentioning an ‘Alien Dreadnought’ in Tesla factories (audio below). So what does an Alien Dreadnought mean? According to Elon Musk, it’s machines working in factories instead of humans on a massive scale.
At the launch of Tesla Model 3, it’s version 0.5 of the Alien Dreadnought, it’ll take a few years to upgrade to the full & final version of the Alien Dreadnought, which means no human involvement in production line. Humans will only be upgrading machines and dealing with anomalies.
Let’s take a brief look at the robots working on the production line at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California.
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