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Human-like Dexterity: Developing highly capable, versatile hands.
Advanced AI Navigation: Ensuring the robot comprehends its environment.
Mass Production Capabilities: Building a scalable manufacturing system from scratch, including creating actuators and components unavailable from existing supply chains.
Musk admits that these are the toughest engineering problems — especially the hands and the supply chain — which require a significant allocation of mental resources. Tesla is tailoring every aspect of production, from hardware components to supply chain logistics, in a vertical integration effort similar to what was necessary for Tesla's electric vehicles.