The head of Tesla’s Optimus humanoid robot program leaves the company

Milan Kovac, who led Teslatoward Optimus Humanoid robotics program leaves the car manufacturer. One X in xMilan spoke of how you joined Tesla In 2016, the main autopilot team and the optimal group in 2022 began. Kovac stressed that the only reason he left and his support Elon musk and Tesla The team was “Ironclad”

Tesla first declared In 2021 he could not do if he was working on a humanoid robot, although make a debut A real prototype in 2022 a year later in a year. Musk said that Optimus can move in 5 miles and can carry up to 45 pounds of luggage. He said he expects to be sold for $ 20,000 each when built in volume and claims that cars could give a company $ 25 trillion market cover. Since then, Tesla have displayed Optimus’ Ability manage eggsCook food, fold the laundry and throw the trash. The robot has no solid release date. Musk said that the robot’s production was affected China will not have any time with the export limits of rare land magnets.

BloombergStating the first way to Kovac, he said he immediately left the company. Ashok Elluswamy, who led the company’s autopilot group, takes over its duties.

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