According to Twitter user @gregtruck, 66 KUKA robots have recently arrived in Houston and will be used in the Tesla Cybertruck production line.
Soon after, Electrek reported the news as well. Although 66 robots may seem like a large quantity, it is still far from enough for the automotive production line. Based on the landing invoices of netizens, Tesla has another large batch of KUKA robots that have not yet arrived.
The arrival time of these robots coincides with the production plan of the Tesla Cybertruck, so it is likely that they are being used to increase the production capacity of the pickup truck.
Not long ago, Tesla announced that the weekly output of their Texas Gigafactory for Model Y had reached 3,000 units. Although this looks like a good achievement, there is still some gap between this output and the original goal of 5,000 cars per week.
In order to improve production capacity, Tesla has dispatched their China President, Tom Zhu, to Texas to take over the management of the Texas factory. In addition to Tom himself, Tesla has also taken about 200 engineers from their Shanghai factory to help improve the production level of the American factory.
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