Tesla Factory Tour with Elon Musk!

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hey what is up guys I'm kbd here and

welcome to the sequel to the previous

video so the part two which is the mini

factory tour with Elon I want to preface

it just with the intro by saying first

of all it is really difficult to shoot

good video in that factory as you'll

both see in here it's Extremely Loud and

extremely busy so this is more of just

like a walking around and having fun and

checking things out uh it's it's

actually probably just like 15 or 20% of

the actual model snx Factory process

it's not the whole thing it's mostly

just Elon showing us around and uh in

fact I didn't even really say much

during this interview it was more just

like a I was kind of like a kid in the

Matrix just kind of absorbing everything

and then it also kind of cuts abruptly

at the end when Elon basically gets

pulled into his next meeting but I still

thought it was a ton of fun and worth

sharing and also I should mention this

entire video shoot this production would

not be possible without my buddy John

from the TLD Channel and his crew who

helped with audio who wear the muscle

with the steady cam he has an entire

behind the-scenes video of this process

on his channel I'll link that right

below so if you want to check that out

after watching this in part one feel

free but until the next one this is your

mini tour of the Tesla Factory with Elon

enjoy one that Loops back and like I

said just gives gives us access to the

central caror yeah um so it's really

just like lifting it up and over so the

the car that ends up here came all the

way way down this previous yeah yeah

exactly so these robots are really just

to give us uh like through through

access okay yeah so so it's going to

pick it up and transfer it to the other

robot yeah um but I I think like you

know like a design Improvement we should

do is like really just the one robot you

just pass it to the other robot um just

pick it up oh there's a third one above

us yeah it's like it puts it on a table

the table rotates it's like like if we

do if we did this overa we would just

have that giant robot pass it to that

giant robot Fair yeah hand off yeah

there like a thousands of like little

things like that that help improve

production General Sly kind of operates

in kind of a u so it goes cars coming

over there go all the way down here and

then all the way that way um and uh you

can see the car get progressively more

complex as it goes down the general

assembly line what does it look like

when it starts this side of the assembly

line oh we can go there we go there

should we start there start at the

beginning or might as

well but here you can get a good sense

for there's like like general assembly

is what I was spoken about as being

really well suited to people okay uh

because you got a lot of weird things

that you got to put together like you

like look at some of these um you know

assemblies that like like it's pretty

hard for a robot to like connect this on

that makes sense yeah it's you know like

depending upon how it comes out of the

box it could be like in a little

different position but it's pretty easy

for somebody like oh it's it's like I

just need to move it like an inch you

know bolt it in it's probably really

hard to write software to

alls yeah you try to if you try to have

the robot do this you got have like a

complicated Vision system and then like

Vision system fols out it's like it's

not quite right that's the hard part we

we have a robot in our studio that moves

the camera around and the hardest part

is when it faults yeah you need a person

there to know what to do exactly so

hopefully that doesn't happen much um

like for for parts that are that are

complicated and fiddly like like wiring

Hound is especially difficult you see

how like the wiring hus kind of meets

the snake uh through the car yeah it's

it's literally like like winding like a

snake through the car you got to like

poke it through holes and and do do

various things that's super difficult

for a robot see like how they're like

putting the

uh part of the air conditioning system

there right um so you use like a little

bit of mechanical assistance with the

winch and whatnot but then it's pretty

straightforward for the guys to just

like get that in there and they like if

they see there an issue with ap part

then like they say oh this part's got a

problem like we'll put it over here for

to you know um to get fixed like this is

like sem line is like moving slowly yeah

so like moves along um and then if um

you know it givs to like time to to get

things done like you can like stand on

this and I think you mentioned like the

the speed of the car coming out the

other side is like 1 mph or something

like that yeah super slow you want to

speed this up right yeah it's not it's

not even 1 mph it's even slower than

that right now but for SX but for but

three it's like getting close to a mph

okay okay um but walking speed is 3 m

hour so it's like only 1/3 walking speed

at 1 mph all right you can see like when

you look on the inside of the car you

can see like how many little complicated

little pieces there are a lot um you

know the things that are meant to uh for

insulation Corrosion

Protection um

airbags uh uh road noise like it's all

the stuff that gets put in here you can

see like these are like the side airbags

here okay um like most people I think

it's like pretty cool like most people

never see like the inside of the car

yeah there's a million things you never

see driving the car every day this is

like sorry guys start

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interrupt you don't mind being on like

on like you know the internet and stuff

is that cool all right YouTube's cool

and I actually don't interrupt your work

but um you know it's like you see like

how like there's like a lot of tricky

pieces and like if for a person like

this is like durable straight yeah you

know takes a bit of training get of

speed whatever but like once once you

like um basically like like a pro human

can do this super well and it's like

hard for the robots to do that but I

when we go to the like the body welding

I'll show you like what's like what's a

robot good at and you'll see like

there's tons of robots like tons of

people here tons of robots there um but

there's so much complexity and variation

here um you got like thread those wires

when it comes through especially here

yeah with this so so like this is the

car with like less stuff in it and then

it goes it's you know and we'll see the

beginning of it right and then that then

it goes all the way around gets more and

more stuff added and does it end at the

end well General Assembly ends probably

somewhere down there yeah okay so um but

you can it's interesting to see the car

get progressively more complex as we add

more parts to it you know this place uh

used to employ like about 5,000 people

and now we got like we got we got 10,000

people just in this location yeah so

what we do is we have like tons of

shuttles and like uh we Cars ride

sharing yeah uh we got the barer rapid

transit station finally like went went

up um so just like trying to get people

here is is not easy a big challenge what

is this oh this is uh

actually like this is one of my favorite

dumb robots Okay yeah I'm a fan right

now it's pretty cool um so like there's

a lot of fancy

robots uh that like but they have like

lots of issues and they break down a

little time cuz these little guys are

super great they're like they follow

this magnetic stripe uhhuh see basically

it's like super easy to program you

don't even need to be a programmer cuz

you just like lay down the the the mag

stripe and it'll follow it yeah it just

follows the mag stripe and then it's got

uh proximity sensors in the front so if

if it sees an obstacle or sees like

something in the way it just stops and

then soon as something moves out of the

way it just keeps going and it just like

does this like a little thing all day

long like a little train like you're

were talking about robot folting out and

one of the it's like that's like where

like actually um doing things manually

can can can actually be more um more

efficient because if you have like a lot

of complicated robots particularly if

you have a 24/7 operation like we have

with model 3 uh then if the robot bols

out you got to have 24/7 like Advanced

robot technicians makes sense and then

if the robot like accidentally crashes

and like breaks a fixture then it's like

man okay now now we've got the line got

lined down it's like red alert and then

I get pulled on my cell phone at 2: in

the morning and it's like like trying to

fly apart from Germany it's like we

literally had that two days ago do you

have to when you get new robots do you

build the robots or do you order them in

and program them

so uh there's like different classes

there's many many different types of

robots so the like the giant robot that

we still lifting the car it's like

that's that that is a catalog item but

then we have to program the the motion

and then and the end effector is that is

custom so the end effector that picks up

the car drops it off that's a custom

made thing okay so it's kind of like you

kind of like buy this like powerful arm

but it's just like having an arm stuck

in the ground and then you're like okay

what does the arm do you got to tell it

everything to do yeah and then you got

to put sensors on it and put fixtures

but that's like kind of uh like that

robot over there uh that's also one of

like the ones that picks up the car oh

uh by the way these are like named after

X-Men oh oh yeah I forgot about that um

just

X-Men mob it's like mob and X-Men like

to start to run out of Nam yeah yeah

this like actually turns out a lot of X

by the way yeah okay so you can see like

this is like quite a beast of a robot

you can just buy that robot you know in

this case this a Fu robot um and uh you

can buy the robot but then the end

effector that's carrying the car um is

something that's custom and then you got

to do the programming and the like wire

in the sensors and that kind of thing so

the the level of precision of this

massive robot is it to like as far as

repeatable action is it literally the

same path every s yeah plus or minus an

inch oh no it's uh centimeter it's it's

better than that for a big robot there's

a little less Precision than a smaller

robot yeah but say a mediumsized robot

will be accurate to 2.3 mm oh okay what

is the most popular paint color coming

through here that's black black yeah it

actually varies by country um oh

interesting

like um watch out there's a dumb robot

coming through oh yeah this guy's like

pretty pretty cool like

what all right this could go wrong I

don't know you trust them more than I do

yeah okay okay all right good job good

job robot yeah know I I see a lot of

silver and I see a lot of white model X

yeah just New Jersey uh black and white

are the two most colors two most popular

colors um the white and black are are

like black slight is is slightly more

popular than white in the US but in like

Europe it's way more popular like white

is a very rare color in Europe for a car

okay um in us it's like it's it's about

even with with black black and white are

the two most common colors got it yeah

and here you can

see battery

pack this is like be like a mating

station CL the battery pack oh this is

literally connecting the battery to the

car here you can see it's like a

combination of manual and automatic so

it's it's like they're lining it up it's

like yeah exactly it's

a it's it's done primarily by the robot

system by the automated system but then

you got a person just making sure that

the fine tuning is there gotcha how do

you feel about matte matte or satin

colors ask about that a lot I actually

like the Aesthetics of mat it's really

tricky to to repair a mat so like with

you can polish it out with M um if you

get like a little ding it's really hard

to then rematch the so it looks like an

even mat you can't just like you know

that's fair point yeah um so it's it's

doable it's it's something actually we

would like to do that in the future um

but um like right now for example like

the paint Shop's really operating at

Full Tilt so adding any complexity to

the paint shop would not be wise right

now but I think it' be a cool thing to

do in the future but these are sub

assemblies so you can see like the front

rear drive units being built up and the

sub assemblies then feed the main

assembly line these are long assembly

lines

oh well it's and it's it's integrating

uh snx okay and it's making about 2,000

cars a week it's model 3 entirely

completely separate I guess inside the

same building but separate whole

the only place where model 3 uh and SN X

come together is in the paint shop so

the paint shop is processing S3 and X um

simultaneously down the same line U but

otherwise General s separate Bud

separate um yeah everything else is

different so just the paint shop where

they come together you've mentioned

you've slept in the factory to be able

to immediately like diagnose problems

and Hands-On fix what's not right what

type of things happen that you can

immediately fix or immediately take

action on actually last last three

months last year I mostly spent at

gigafactory um uh trying to uh help fix

the battery production it's a modular

production um and it's just it's a lot

of little things like looking at at at

each uh at each little little tiny part

each process say is the process

necessary like because the best part is

no part best part process is no process

and occasionally at the design level you

think something's necessary but then

turns out it's not so it's just like

making sure connect connecting between

design um and Manufacturing uh make sure

making sure we're close to loop on that

um

uh just saying like hey is this if let's

say it's a it's like it's a lot of real

simple stuff but it's like times times a

thousand so if we have like a automated

volt driver going in like watch's the

RPM and talk settings for the volt

driver um can we make that go faster uh

usually usually can unnecessary

movements um like like for example

actually don't really like the fact that

we lift the cars over and and and back

um ideally that would be a robot handoff

yeah ifting rid of a middle stage yeah

exactly cuz the Middle St what is like

putting it on a turntable and then the

turntable is rotating and other robots

picking it up it's actually problem is

like sometimes the tun table breaks down

ow and and so okay so it's like okay

let's eliminate the turntable and just

have robot go to robot um and then you

don't have like uh turntable Breakers to

consider so it's a lot of minimizing

things that can go wrong and maximizing

the efficiency of the simple things that

go right it's like um like design

necessity of of every part of and every

process uh the speed at which um

especially the robots are going um are

there um are there any is is there any

unnecessary movement in the production

line that that isn't value added like

we're actually doing something yeah

um like

replacing elements of the production

system that are not um not needed or

redundant exactly