Tesla Inc. sued a former engineer with the company’s highly secretive Optimus program, accusing him of stealing confidential ...

Tesla alleges that Zhongjie Li stole confidential trade secrets and used them to launch a robotics startup a week after he ...

Elon Musk’s Optimus robotics program now teeters on shaky ground following the abrupt exit of its engineering chief. On ...

Optimus unites all the attributes Elon Musk loves in a killer product—one identical set of hardware that can be affordably ...

Tesla has sued former Optimus engineer, Zhongjie Jay Li, accusing him of stealing trade secrets from their humanoid robotics ...

Elon Musk’s Tesla is suing one of its former engineers for allegedly stealing trade secrets related to its highly anticipated Optimus humanoid robot.

Milan Kovac was a top AI executive and led development of a humanoid robot that is central to Elon Musk’s vision for the ...

Tesla Inc. has filed a lawsuit against a former engineer, Zhongjie “Jay” Li, accusing him of stealing trade secrets from its ...

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Tesla’s head of Optimus humanoid robot, Milan Kovac, announced that he is leaving the automaker after 9 years. It ...

Kovac became the lead of the program in 2022 when he was appointed director of Optimus and Autopilot Engineering, and he took ...

According to the legal complaint, Tesla's ex-engineer downloaded sensitive Optimus project data onto two personal smartphones during his tenure.