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Tesla’s Optimus robot VP is leaving the company


The head of Tesla's Optimus humanoid robot program, Milan Kovac, is leaving the company, according to Bloomberg News. The departure comes as Tesla CEO

The departure comes as Tesla CEO Elon Musk has claimed the company will have “thousands” of Optimus robots operating in its factories by the end of this year. “And we expect to scale Optimus up faster than any product, I think, in history, to get to millions of units per year as soon as possible,” Musk said last month. “I’m driving the Optimus program (Tesla’s humanoid robot) & all its engineering teams,” Kovac previously wrote on his LinkedIn profile.

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