{"id":2259,"date":"2017-08-16T11:00:35","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T16:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/?p=2259"},"modified":"2017-08-16T13:10:59","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T18:10:59","slug":"future-of-making-tesla-robot-partners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/future-of-making-tesla-robot-partners\/","title":{"rendered":"Future of Making Series: Tesla\u2019s Robot Partners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>The final installment of a 5-week series from the new Future of Making book by Tom Wujek. Stories will be posted here on In The Fold and on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/redshift.autodesk.com\/\">Redshift<\/a><em>. To learn more about the book, visit\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/future-of-making-book.\">www.autodesk.com\/future-of-making-book<\/a><em>. \u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brilliant orange robotic arms, and their human counterparts, cut, mold, weld, and polish raw aluminum into brand-new Teslas at the company\u2019s Fremont factory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/07\/DavidBotowRedux.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2294\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2294\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.autodesk.com\/inthefold\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/71\/2017\/07\/DavidBotowRedux-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"428\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What its 1.9-million-square-foot bigger brother boasts in scale\u2014Reno\u2019s $5 billion \u201cGigafactory\u201d will grow to 10 million square feet in the future, nearly doubling the world\u2019s production of lithium ion batteries\u2014this plant has in finesse, producing 400 Model S cars each week with only 3,000 human workers and 160 robots. It\u2019s relatively slow, compared to car-a-minute plants like Ford\u2019s, but it\u2019s futuristically efficient. Other factory robots do one task only\u2014and do it fast. Tesla\u2019s are slower but smarter. One orange arm might seamlessly switch from angling seats into a roadster frame to carefully gluing front and rear windshields onto a nearly finished car body.<\/p>\n<p>Cutting-edge software and light, nimble mechanics turn robots from drones into collaborators, adapting to new jobs as they follow cars and coworkers down the magnetized assembly line, from 20,000-pound coils of raw aluminum to the final painting bay. This multifunctionality allows Tesla to control almost the entire Model S manufacturing process from one central campus.<\/p>\n<p>The Fremont factory houses business teams, design staff, line workers, and all-purpose robots in its 4.5 million square feet of space: a revolutionary approach to previously decentralized routines, in which networks of specialized plants work independently. Tesla\u2019s factory makes more than cars; it models a future of manufacturing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><em>The final installment of a 5-week series from the new Future of Making book by Tom Wujek. Stories will be posted here on In The Fold and on\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/redshift.autodesk.com\/\">Redshift<\/a><em>. 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