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Tesla is hiring people to do the robot

The role comes with height and motion requirements that line up with expectations for Optimus. | Image: Tesla

Tesla is employing people to help train its humanoid Optimus robot by wearing motion capture suits and mimicking actions that it will be expected to perform. 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 and wearing a VR headset for “extended periods of time.”

Employees must also be between 5’7’’ and 5’11’’ tall — likely to be in a similar range to Optimus’ projected 5’8’’ height. The official Tesla Optimus X account has previously teased what the role entails, and Business Insider reports that Tesla has hired over 50 workers for the position over the past year.

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