Tesla goes on major hiring spree for motor designers and engineers for humanoid Optimus robot

Tesla is on a major hiring spree for the teams that will build its humanoid robot Optimus, which is set to be unveiled September 30 at the company's AI Day. As CEO Elon Musk has recently touted the robot's potential uses - in domestic and manufacturing scenarios - and said that people will be'blown away' by the artificial intelligence-powered machine, the company's hiring efforts seem to be ramping up. Konstantinos Laskaris, Tesla's principle motor designer, shared a post on LinkedIn that called for nine different roles related to building and fine-tuning the humanoid bot - most of them based in Palo Alto, California, and one based in Athens, Greece. Tesla is on a major hiring spree for the teams that will build its humanoid robot Optimus, which is set to be unveiled September 30 at the company's AI Day CEO Elon Musk has touted the robot's potential uses - in domestic and manufacturing scenarios - and said people will be'blown away' by the artificial intelligence machine Konstantinos Laskaris, Tesla's principle motor designer, shared a post on LinkedIn that called for nine different roles related to building and fine-tuning the humanoid bot - most of them based in Palo Alto, California, and one based in Athens, Greece'The ability to simultaneously optimize designs for performance, efficiency, cost, and manufacturability is what makes Tesla the leader in Electric Motor Technology,' Laskaris wrote on the careers website. 'Developing a HUMANOID ROBOT requires pushing the technology boundaries even further, bringing us new challenges.