Poor Performance of Tesla Factory Robots

October 8, 2016

Tesla's manufacturing goal of 2,500 Model 3s per week was missed by 500 cars due to underperformance from factory robots. To compensate, additional workers were temporarily brought in from Panasonic for manual battery assembly.

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Alleged deployer: tesla
Alleged developer: tesla
Alleged harmed parties: tesla

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