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IT Home reported on August 20 that Tesla is recruiting a large number of people to train its humanoid robot Optimus by wearing motion capture equipment to imitate the movements required by the robot.This position, which Tesla calls a "data collector," pays up to $48 an hour (IT Home Note: currently about RMB 344), and requires employees to walk more than 7 hours a day, carry equipment weighing up to 30 pounds (about 13.61 kilograms), and wear a VR headset for a long time.

In order to match the Optimus' estimated height of 5 feet 8 inches (about 1.72 meters), the applicant must be between 5 feet 7 inches (about 1.7 meters) and 5 feet 11 inches (about 1.8 meters). Tesla's official Optimus X account previously announced the nature of the position, according to Business Insider.Tesla has hired more than 50 people for this position in the past year.

Motion capture is a common and cost-effective way to train robots to perform human-like movements, but Tesla is one of the first companies to adopt it on a large scale. While there are some videos online showing Optimus performing various tasks, Nvidia Research senior fellow Animesh Garg told Business Insider that Optimus will likely need millions of hours of data before it's fully ready to work in a Tesla factory.

Although Tesla CEO Elon Musk has promised to produce "truly useful" robots next year, he himself admits that this is mostly speculation.