Tesla suit the former Optius engineer for an alleged business theft

Tesla filed a lawsuit to a former engineer to steal alleged commercial secrets from its human robots program, Optimus, and its use to launch a competitive startup.

The lawsuit filed on Wednesday and It was originally reported by BloombergZhongjie “Jay” is accused of stealing commercial secrets regarding the development of Tesla for “Advanced Hand Sensors” to launch the startup ConceptY, supported by the automatic hand -building company.

The complaint states that Lee, who worked in Tesla from August 2022 to September 2024, has downloaded secret information about Optimus on two separate personal smartphones.

Al -Shakawi also added that during the past few months of his time in Tesla, Lee searched the “Hands of Automated Human” on his computer in addition to conducting online inspections regarding the startup financing sources and other startup financing sources.

“Less than a week after leaving Tesla, the excess was listed,” the complaint stated. “In just five months, the total publicly claimed that he” successfully building “his advanced human robot hands – which carries an amazing similarity to the designs that Li worked on in Tesla.”

A Procession website states that the company is working on “a revolution in human interaction, robot by building the most human hands in the world.”

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Tesla’s Optimus Robotics has been on a rocky road since the company since the company It was unveiled by a human robotTesla Bot, in 2021. In 2022, the company said that the robot, along with other new products, It will be presented in 2023. But Optius remained in development.

In July 2024, Elon Musk said from Tesla that the company will be Start selling robots in 2026. Just a few months after the “We, Robot” event in Tesla in October 2024, Tesla’s Optimus Bots was in the attendance Humans are largely controlled Outside the site.