The head of the Tesla’s Optimus Humanoid Robot, Milan Kovac, the company.
Kovak said on Friday in a mail On X he “had to make the most difficult decision” in his life to leave. “I was far from home for a long time, and I will need to spend more time with the family abroad,” he wrote. Kovak said this is the “only reason” and that his support for Musk and Tesla is “IronClad”.
Kovak’s departure was reported for the first time on Friday Written by Bloomberg News.
The departure comes at a time when Elon Musk, CEO of Tesla, participated Claim The company will have thousands of Optimus robots that work in its factories by the end of this year. “We expect to advance faster than any product, I think, in history, get millions of units annually as soon as possible,” Musk said last month.
Kovac worked in Tesla for nearly 10 years, with a lot of that time as a great engineer in the Autopilot team. He was used to help the Optimus Development Command in 2022 and became a vice president supervising the program in late 2024.
Kovac previously wrote in his profile on LinkedIn: “I am leading the Optimus (Robot Humanoid from Tesla) and all the engineering teams.” “Separately, I also lead the engineering teams responsible for all the foundations and the common infrastructure between Optimus and Autopilot.”
The Ashok Eluswamy project, Vice President of the AI Programs Department in Tesla, will take over the Optimus project, according to Bloomberg.
This story was updated with information from Kovac’s X Post about his departure.
