“The position, advertised as a “ Data Collection Operator ” on Tesla’s career site, pays up to $48 per hour and requires walking for over seven hours a day while carrying up to 30 pounds”
Tesla wants workers between 5'7" and 5'11" to walk around in motion capture suits and VR headsets so Optimus can copy them. It has hired over 50 already. An Nvidia researcher puts the data bill at half a billion dollars with no guarantee it works. The humanoid robot of the future is, for now, a guy in a suit doing chores for $48 an hour.