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Tesla expands Optimus production amid hand-assembly constraints

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Claim

The newsletter reports Tesla increasing Optimus production tenfold while its 100-screw hands still require human assembly.

Reported metric: tenfold; 100 screws

Reporting date: 2026-09-29 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to September 29, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)
Source linked by the September 29 issue (www.theinformation.com)

Indexed from the September 29 newsletter. Linked-source claims have not been independently verified.

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Tesla Optimus

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Welcome to September 29, 2026

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Tesla

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Welcome to September 29, 2026

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Tesla expands Optimus production amid hand-assembly constraints
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-09-29
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-09-29-optimus-production
Claim: The newsletter reports Tesla increasing Optimus production tenfold while its 100-screw hands still require human assembly.
Attributed sources:
- Welcome to September 29, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-september-29-2026
- Source linked by the September 29 issue — https://www.theinformation.com/articles/teslas-optimus-hits-snags-hands-suppliers-scale-up-begins
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