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The robots that conquered Fremont: Watch ’em making Teslas

July 18, 2013 /

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It’s amazing what 160 robots can do. Get ’em together with 20,000 pounds of aluminum coils, and the next thing you know, you have a car.

That’s what happens at the Tesla factory in Fremont, California, where robots ranging in size "from teeny little ones to huge ones" can unroll sheets of metal, stamp them, and paint them into electrically-powered Tesla S sedans within three to five days, according to Gilbert Passin. He’s Tesla’s vice president of manufacturing who appears in a lively video that Wired magazine posted from inside the plant, on YouTube.

To help you believe, watch it below. You’ll marvel as robots (the huge ones) chuck around cars as if they were chiclets. Some are even so versatile they do seats as well as windows!

By Mark Halper

Full Story: http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/bulletin/the-robots-that-conquered-fremont-watch-8216em-making-teslas/24560?tag=nl.e660

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