Tesla chose this lavish LA home to show Optimus Robot’s capabilities: Here’s why

By Joey Klender Posted on November 7, 2024 Tesla chose this lavish home in Los Angeles to show off the Optimus Robot’s future capabilities at the “We, Robot” event in early October. Although Tesla investors and fans have always known that the company plans to create Optimus as the perfect home assistant, we have not …

Tesla names Milan Kovac as VP, Head of Engineering for Optimus

By Simon Alvarez Posted on October 17, 2024 Tesla’s Director of Optimus and Autopilot Engineering Milan Kovac has been promoted to Vice President of Optimus (Tesla Bot). The update was posted on the executive’s personal LinkedIn page.  Similar to Tesla’s Director of Autopilot Software Ashok Elluswamy, who was promoted to Vice President of AI Software …

Tesla wants to pay you to be an Optimus Bot — sort of

By Joey Klender Posted on August 19, 2024 Tesla is hiring for a new role that will help it accumulate data for its Optimus humanoid robot — essentially paying you for acting like its upcoming bot that will eliminate monotonous tasks from day-to-day life. The job, labeled as a “Data Collection Operator, Tesla Bot,” helps …