{"id":1084,"date":"2017-04-28T22:55:49","date_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/?p=1084"},"modified":"2017-04-28T22:55:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-28T22:55:49","slug":"elon-musk-is-building-a-robot-army-that-will-assemble-model-3-cars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/elon-musk-is-building-a-robot-army-that-will-assemble-model-3-cars\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk is Building a Robot Army that Will Assemble Model 3 Cars"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-Chemical_Genomics_Robot.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1085\" src=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-Chemical_Genomics_Robot-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"800px-Chemical_Genomics_Robot\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-Chemical_Genomics_Robot-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/800px-Chemical_Genomics_Robot.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>An army of robots is being built to work in Tesla&#8217;s \u201calien dreadnought\u201d factory. Pictures that leaked online show hundreds of robot workers that will build Model 3 being set up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tesla\u2019s chief executive, Elon Musk, once said that when his factory becomes an &#8220;alien dreadnought&#8221;, the company \u201cwill be ready to support mass production of the Model 3.\u201d<!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tesla has just received a massive order from the German manufacturer of industrial robots Kuka Robotics. The bright orange Kuka robots will be used to build Model 3 electric cars.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pictures that recently went viral on the Internet, show hundreds of robots being unpacked and lined up. Sources claim that 467 robots are ready for deployment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each of the Kuka robots costs between $50,000 and $500,000. They are able to manage multiple tasks like switching adapters or moving across multiple axes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At present Tesla uses 580 giant robot arms for in the production of Model S and Model X <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\" target=\"_blank\">cars<\/a>. However, the new robots will help to automate even more the manufacturing process.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The vehicles currently move down the production line at 5 centimeters per second, says Musk and he claims it is \u2018very slow\u2019. The new robots will bring about twenty times increase in speed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">People will not work in the production process, but there will be people working in the factory. They will oversee the robots and make sure everything is running properly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An army of robots is being built to work in Tesla&#8217;s \u201calien dreadnought\u201d factory. Pictures that leaked online show hundreds of robot workers that will build Model 3 being set up. Tesla\u2019s chief executive, Elon Musk, once said that when &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/elon-musk-is-building-a-robot-army-that-will-assemble-model-3-cars\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[33,32],"tags":[34,73,58,16,50],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1084"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1086,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1084\/revisions\/1086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.interplextransportation.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}