Tesla’s Optimus robot VP is leaving the company

Milan Kovak, head of Tesla Optimus Humanoid Robot Program, is leaving the company.

Kovak says on Friday Post In X -that was “the most difficult decision to leave her” to leave. He wrote, “I was far from home for a long time, and would have to spend more time with families abroad,” he wrote. Kovak said it was “the only reason” and his support for the musk and Tesla is “Ironclad”.

Covak’s departure was reported on the first Friday By Bloomberg NewsThe

Tesla’s CEO Elon Comes As the Exit comes Claim Late this year will operate the Opensus Robots “thousands” in the factory of this company. “And we expect to scale optimus faster than any product, I think in history, to get as many million units as soon as possible,” Kasturi said last month.

Kovak worked for about 10 years in Tesla, most of the time he came to the autopilot team as the top engineer. He was tapped to help the development of the Optimus leadership in 2022 and became the Vice President to oversee the program in late 2021.

“I am running the Optimus Program (Tesler Humanoid Robot) and all its engineering teams,” Kovak wrote earlier on his LinkedIn profile. “Separately, I also run all the common software foundations between the optimus and the autopilots and the engineering teams responsible for infrastructure.”

According to Bloomberg, Tesla’s Vice -President Ashok Elushawami Optimus will adopt the project.

This story has been updated with Kovak’s X post information about his exit.