The top of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robotic program, Milan Kovac, is leaving the corporate in accordance with Bloomberg Information.
The departure comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed the corporate could have “1000’s” of Optimus robots working in its factories by the tip of this 12 months. “And we count on to scale Optimus up sooner than any product, I believe, in historical past, to get to thousands and thousands of items per 12 months as quickly as doable,” Musk stated final month.
Kovac has labored at Tesla for almost 10 years, with a lot of that point coming as a high engineer on the Autopilot group. He was tapped to assist lead growth of Optimus in 2022 and have become a vice chairman overseeing this system in late 2024.
“I’m driving the Optimus program (Tesla’s humanoid robotic) & all its engineering groups,” Kovac beforehand wrote on his LinkedIn profile. “Individually, I’m additionally driving the engineering groups liable for all of the software program foundations & infrastructure widespread between Optimus and Autopilot.”
Ashok Elluswamy, the vice chairman of Tesla’s AI software program division, will take over the Optimus undertaking in accordance with Bloomberg.
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