TESLA WORKERS REVOLT: Refuse Training Optimus as Replacement, Fear Job Loss...

Tesla is pivoting production away from vehicles to Optimus humanoid robots, targeting 1,000 units per week by end of 2026—but factory workers are resisting training machines built to replace them. The Optimus Gen-3 faces serious manufacturing hurdles: each robot hand contains over 100 tiny components that workers must assemble by hand, and the touch sensors keep failing. Meanwhile, the robots currently can't perform general tasks without specific programming in controlled settings. Elon Musk has called Optimus potentially "the biggest product ever," but the gap between that vision and actual production capabilities is widening.