How the Tesla Model S is Made | Tesla Motors Part 1 (WIRED)

If founder Elon Musk is right, Tesla Motors just might reinvent the American auto industry—with specialized robots building slick electric cars in a factory straight from the future. That's where the battery-powered Model S is born.

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How the Tesla Model S is Made | Tesla Motors Part 1 (WIRED)

[UncleFishbits]

I imagine the pride these employees have in their work is not too far off from the early days of when we dominated the auto trade. This is unbelievable efficiency bordering on art. Very cool.

[ScienceAsylum]

This is so cool!! It's amazing they can have one robot that does the seats *AND* and the windshields.  Those are some tight spaces inside the car and yet it doesn't scratch the dash or upholstery.

[mu]

Its 2020 and this video still feel unreal. The robots, the pristine white factory, the scale of it ... I mean its just amazing. Elon Musk will be remembered in 3030 like we remember Einstein or Newton Today...

[MikeRotch]

Why is everything Elon Musk involves himself with so badass? He's the real life Tony Stark.

[YesFunnyYes]

Main reason why Tesla operates in the States is due to the fact it requires almost no low level skill work. All work needed is medium and high skilled meaning mechanics and engineers.

[DaManBearPig]

3:32
This blows my mind.
The amount of programming this took.
The programmers must be buried out back with a memorial to them.

[doodskie]

im watching this in my tesla, eating a cheeseburger while charging lol

[Reirainsong]

2024: Factory has 600 robots, 15 employees.

[LimitedWard]

Wow those robots are amazing. I've been spending my entire year in my programming class simply trying to make a robot complete a maze on its own. I can't even imagine the number of variables required to ensure such precision manufacturing.

[MichaelSHartman]

First commercial I have wanted to see in a long time.

[JEMacProductions]

Also, remember that someone else (like many of my Electrical Engineering classmates at school aspire to) has to design those robots too! :D AND someone had to physically BUILD those robots... and then someone else had to design the robots that help build those, etc., etc. ^_^

[BFArchn]

I would be DAMN proud to work there too....I have to settle for wearing the T-shirt for now

[Feelthefx]

this was definitely an ad i did not skip

[JapCarRealGood]

+WIRED If you're driving a Tesla and it gets stolen, is it now called an "Edison"?

[pablof]

Soon the first human to touch the car will be the driver...

[justintime]

Damn I wish I were rich. I would own all 3 models, S, 3,

[CrazySteTV]

i see many Comments of People complaining there are no many Workers assembling the Cars because Robots do everything...
YES True, Robots do all the Construction/Assembly, but who do you think maintains those Robots Functional?

The use of Robots doesn't kill jobs, it optimizes production output and shifts jobs to a different function.

Instead of having a bunch of workers flipping Wrenches to tighten Nuts all day for $14 an hour, they hire Trained Technicians for $20 that know how to Program and Fix the Machines.

So rather than having 3000 People building 10 Cars a Day, you pay 3000 People to make sure the Robots keep Working nicely and make 150 Cars a Day.

in any case you employee about the same amount of People, the Productivity on the other hand increases a lot... the other Option would be to hire 10thousand People to obtain the same Productivity of the Robots, but at that point the cost of Labor would be too high making the Cars too expensive, thus forcing to move production to Countries where labor is cheap.

I'd rather keep the Robots and make stuff in America by hiring a good Maintenance Crew that keeps all the Machines running flawlessly all day long!

[doktor]

I watch this incredibly high right now, and wow, .I feel like Im in the future

[QazaqtynUly]

This factory created from scratch is more genius than the Tesla car.

[ashokluktuke]

Amazing technology, so precise and perfect.Kudos to the men who designed these machines