Elon Musk’s Optimus Robots are currently Looney Tunes slapstick disasters. But there’s a massive effort behind the scenes to make sure they don’t stay clumsy clankers forever.

Enter Tesla’s secret lab at its engineering headquarters in Palo Alto, California, where according to a new scoop from Business Insider, its goal is to record practically every mundane human movement imaginable, performed hundreds of times each day by a tireless crew of dozens of workers.

The AI industry is as much powered by armies of human grunts who work behind the scenes to make the tech appear seamless as it is by the actual gigawatts of energy consumed by its enormous data centers. So-called “data annotators” spend hours manually labelling the text and imagery contained in mountains of training data so that t

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