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Tesla workers balk at training Optimus humanoid robots as replacements

Tesla workers refused to train Optimus humanoids they believed would replace them, so Tesla moved data collection to dedicated teams.

Tesla's Optimus humanoids still need post-production fixes, and unreliable hand sensors led the company to add a replaceable glove-like sensor layer. Sources told The Information the robots cannot yet do general-purpose work and must be programmed for specific tasks in controlled environments. Factory workers in Texas and California objected to wearing motion-capture suits for imitation learning because they expected the robots to replace them, so Tesla moved that work to dedicated teams and training hubs. The report also cites continued Chinese component supply, a July FCC ban on new foreign-made robots, and humanoid programs from Toyota, Hyundai with Boston Dynamics' Atlas, and Agility Robotics.

Ars Technica · AISep 25, 21:10 UTC · 1d agoAI industry

Atlas: Efficient Verifiable Semantic Search

Atlas delivers zero-knowledge proofs for HNSW semantic search, verifying RAG retrieval in under a second on SIFT1M and 2.0 seconds at 100M vectors.

Atlas lets a search provider prove that a query was answered correctly against a committed HNSW index without revealing the index, addressing provider deviations like truncation or bias. It combines offline preprocessing, a fixed-size-state restructuring of HNSW with a correctness proof, and timestep-tagged batching of per-step arguments. The system proves queries in under a second on SIFT1M and 2.0 seconds at 100 million vectors while preserving plaintext HNSW recall, and proven retrieval maintains end-to-end RAG answer quality at lower cost than prior verifiable retrieval systems.

arXiv cs.CRSep 10, 17:30 UTC · 16d agoResearch4

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