Tesla Ditching Industrial Robots for Huge "Giga Press"
Remember that Tesla "mega-casting" we showed you a couple of months ago? Well, it's about to get more mega.
Tesla is on the cutting-edge of manufacturing technology, with access to the latest industrial robots. But as a reminder that even fancy robots cannot supplant innovative design and engineering, the company is ditching robots for a crucial step in the production process of the new Model Y, and replacing them with a rather old-school production method: Casting.