Tesla Motors Assembly Line

18 responses to “Tesla Motors Assembly Line”

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   Ramones Karaoke

   Mar 22, 2012 at 11:54 am

   Wow – it’s like an anti-Victorian sweatshop – no Jacquard looms (although there may be one out back making the seat covers!), not a single malnourished ragamuffin with industrial injuries.

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   jgury

   Mar 22, 2012 at 1:07 pm

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/philatkin] The sweatshops are for all the Asian slave components that go into it.

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   jurvetson

   Mar 22, 2012 at 3:45 pm

   You must mean the iPhone calendar syncing to the nav system? =)

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/philatkin] – oddly descriptive

   P.S. More autobot photos, and a sense of the before and after

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   jgury

   Mar 22, 2012 at 4:04 pm

   [http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson] All global supply chains have links to slavery of one form or another.

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   hmboo Electrician and Adventurer

   Mar 22, 2012 at 5:36 pm

   The Robots looks like KUKAs but the color dont match.I see also litle STÄUBLIs

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   jurvetson

   Mar 22, 2012 at 5:56 pm

   I saw many German Kuka’s (for precision placement).

   jgury – another good reason for being the most vertically integrated… =)

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   McPHX

   Mar 22, 2012 at 6:15 pm

   Did I see the SUV concept is really gull wing? Wow!

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   jurvetson

   Mar 22, 2012 at 6:24 pm

   Falcon-wing. It has two hinges so it lifts up and out of the way, unlike a gull-wing which flaps into the neighboring vehicles in a parking lot. I took photos and video of it on Sunday.

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   Chucil

   Mar 22, 2012 at 6:54 pm

   The robots wear the same color. Japanese workers wear uniforms in their factories, for ex., Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., which does similar things.
   * Rockets and spacecraft
   * Mitsubishi Motors Corporation, part of the Mitsubishi keiretsu
   They regard their "The Spirit of Mitsubishi" as what get them to where they are.
   "Shoki Hoko"=Corporate Responsibility to Society
   "Shoji Komei"=Integrity and Fairness
   "Ritsugyo Boeki"=Global Understanding through Business

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    seikatsu

    Mar 22, 2012 at 9:16 pm

    Steve, did you know NUMMI translates to roughly "cute" from Estonian – or "kawaii" in Japanese…

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    jurvetson

    Mar 23, 2012 at 1:43 am

    Did not know that. It looks cute now. Aitah!

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    Jim Rees

    Mar 23, 2012 at 1:52 am

    I had a friend who worked full time as a fashion designer for an industrial robot clothing manufacturer. I didn’t even know industrial robots wore clothing. Apparently it keeps out dirt and grease in harsh environments.

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    Toni Rdz

    Jul 17, 2012 at 10:24 pm

    Hello Steve, I’m helping my brother with a web that I’m programming for his startup wannabe, and I want to use a modified version of this photo there. Which would be the best way to attribute you the copyrights or mention you? do you prefer a link to this page or something else? excuse me but I’m a newbie in using cc licenses.

    Thanks

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    jurvetson

    Jul 17, 2012 at 11:18 pm

    yup – All of my photos are free to use forever with a simple photo credit:
    “Photo by Jurvetson (flickr)” and for online use, please have the credit line link to the original page (or the photo itself can link back). thanks.

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    One With U

    Aug 24, 2012 at 9:21 pm

    Your image has been featured as a photo of the day on http://www.onewithu.com/206/hydraulic-swing-clamps/ under its Creative Commons license! Thank you and keep shooting! 🙂

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    olavbryantsmith

    Nov 6, 2012 at 12:31 am

    Hi. We’ve started a new magazine called Empirical (empiricalmagazine.com ) and I am happy to say that we’ve chosen the photograph above for publication in our December issue. Thank you for making it available to us.

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    Sai Prasad Ojha

    Aug 26, 2013 at 10:45 am

    Hi, I am choosing your image for one of my works under CC license. Thanks a lot

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    nikolaus.correll

    Apr 1, 2024 at 9:16 pm

    Thanks for sharing this, these pics are hard to get 🙂 I use it here: medium.com/correll-lab/the-future-of-robotic-assembly-ce3…

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