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Elon Musk's Tesla Files Lawsuit Alleging Ex-Employee Stole Humanoid Tech To Launch Rival - NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)
- Tesla sued former engineer Zhongjie "Jay" Li on Wednesday in San Francisco, accusing him of stealing trade secrets to start a rival robotics company.
- From August 2022 until September 2024, Li was involved in developing Tesla's advanced robotic hand sensor technology before leaving the company and founding Proception Inc. within a week.
- Proception, based in Palo Alto, claims to have developed humanoid robotic hands resembling Tesla’s designs just five months after Li left the company.
- Tesla alleges Li downloaded sensitive Optimus files onto two smartphones before leaving and describes his actions as a calculated effort to exploit Tesla’s intellectual property.
- The lawsuit seeks damages and an injunction against Li and Proception, reflecting Tesla CEO Musk’s view that Optimus will become the company’s most valuable product.
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Elon Musk's Tesla Files Lawsuit Alleging Ex-Employee Stole Humanoid Tech To Launch Rival - NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA)
Tesla accused an ex-employee of stealing files, launching rival startup, claims Proception showed humanoid hands similar to Tesla's designs.
Tesla sues ex-Optimus engineer alleging theft of robotic trade secrets
Tesla Inc. sued a former engineer with the company’s highly secretive Optimus program, accusing him of stealing confidential information about the humanoid robot and setting up a rival startup in Silicon Valley. Zhongjie “Jay” Li worked at Tesla between August 2022 and September 2024, according to a complaint filed in a San Francisco Federal Court late Wednesday. Li worked on “advanced robotic hand sensors—and was entrusted with some of the mos…
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