- Optimus combines all attributes Elon Musk Loves in a killer product – an identical hardware series that can be produced affordable on a scale, but can be able to meet various requirements through intelligent software functions. Now Teslas has lost praised robot project, which increased the company a value of 25 trillion dollars, the director who has run the program since it was founded three years ago.
The brain behind CEO Elon Musk’s Billion dollar dream of a robot future has disappeared, and the effects only begin to feel how employees say goodbye.
Milan Kovac on Friday announced He would leave Tesla after more than nine years Spend more time with his family abroad. As a natural European immigrant, he originally came to the USA H-1b visa This musk argues Crucial for America’s competitiveness.
It is difficult to overestimate the importance of his departure for Tesla, since Musk himself predicted Kovac’s humanoid robot Optimus that he should add 25 trillion US dollars to its market capitalization – more than all ten of the most valuable companies in the world. For all update muscle contributions on social media, investors endeavored to show how the progress shows how the video of the Droid dance last month on two metallic feet.
– Elon Musk (@elonmusk) May 13, 2025
“Milan, thank you very much for her outstanding contribution to Tesla in the past ten years. It was an honor to work with you,” admitted the entrepreneur on Friday.
Optimus contains all the characteristics, the musk requests
Kovac responsible for the Optimus robot program since the beginning of 2022 and in September for the Vice President. He was not one of the most publicly visible Tesla executives. It is also not so unusual that key personnel are associated with brutal grinding with working for such a demanding CEO as Musk.
Kovac’s departure has been the head of the program since its foundation and is a loss that may best be similar to the departure of the former director of Tesla artificial intelligence. Andrej Karpathythree years ago.
“This meets differently.” Thank you for challenging and inspiring us and the adhesive that went together was things together. “
Named after the Hasbros Popular Transformer Franchise Head of Autobot is not just a potential source current: it is The Future of Tesla.
From the beginning, Musk predicted that the robot would become more important to the company than its EV business.
It combines all attributes of A Killer product This musk loves it-a standardized piece of hardware that can be produced affordable on a scale, but thanks to the still improved software updates, meets various market requirements.
“This will be bigger than the car,” he said in April 2022, an assertion that sounded even more ambitious when there seemed to be no limit for Teslas EV sales.
Design for a utopian society based on sustainable abundance
Kovac may not have had the public profile of a carpathy or chief vehicle engineer Lars Moravy, but his role was the core of Tesla’s history of equity.
Musk predicted that the droids that Kovac created would revolutionize human behavior, and in his vision everyone all around the world would have at least one robot and remove any upper limit for economic growth.
He called this an era of “Sustainable abundance”, The first utopian society in the world in which there is no longer any scarcity.
2023 was great for Optimus.
We have passed from an exploratory prototype (Bumblebee/CEE) to a more stable platform (Optimus Gen-1).
We have improved our stack of locomotion and often without falls and with a faster, more and more … pic.twitter.com/ycnd0sthbd
– Milan Kovac (@_milankovac_) December 31, 2023
But Musk recently opened the challenges with which Tesla works with a completely new supply chain and technology, and told how they “desperately” tried to optimize optimus with existing actuators and sensors from the pipe before deciding to design them all from scratch.
“We design the train and the train station in real time and at the same time build the tracks” said During the fourth quarter in January.
Optimus has also suffered its appropriate proportion of negative advertising and affects robotics companies high expectations.
“Tesla will win, I guarantee you”
Musk received criticism in January 2024 for the publication of a video from Optimus Folding laundry, which initially not mentioned that the robot did not act on his own.
This was repeated when the Cybercab was revealed from October with the name “WE, Robot”, where the unbound versions of the two-legged droid interacted with the guests and to believe that they were more intelligent than intelligent than intelligent instead of operated by people from afar.
The CEO announced in April Rare caused by leading refiners China.
However, these setbacks did not alleviate the enthusiasm of Musk. He predicted that Tesla builds at least 5,000 in a Roman legion this year, as he was expressing it before it was increased two hundred times in 2029.
“We expect Optimus to get to millions of units per year faster than any product in history as soon as possible,” he said during the quarter of the first quarter.
In his farewell on Friday, Kovac hit a modest tone.
The success achieved was more of his team than his own, he argued. Therefore, the Optimus project was in no way in danger.
“My departure will not change anything now,” he said, ending with the prediction that “Tesla will win, I guarantee them.”
This story was originally on Fortune.com
