{"id":674882,"date":"2025-06-13T08:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T05:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tesla-sues-former-optimus-engineer-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T08:45:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T05:45:19","slug":"tesla-sues-former-optimus-engineer-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tesla-sues-former-optimus-engineer-over-alleged-trade-secret-theft\/","title":{"rendered":"Tesla sues former Optimus engineer over alleged trade secret theft"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Tesla sued a former engineer for allegedly stealing trade secrets from its humanoid robotics program, Optimus, and using them to launch a rival startup.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday and originally reported on by Bloomberg<\/a>, accuses Zhongjie \u201cJay\u201d Li of stealing trade secrets regarding Tesla\u2019s development of \u201cadvanced robotic hand sensors\u201d to launch his startup Proception<\/a>, a Y Combinator-backed company building robotic hands.<\/p>\n

The complaint states that Li, who worked at Tesla from August 2022 to September 2024, download<\/a>ed confidential information about Optimus on two separate personal smartphones.<\/p>\n

The complaint also added that during the last few months of his time at Tesla, Li researched \u201chumanoid robotic hands\u201d on his workplace computer in addition to making internet searches regarding venture capital and other startup funding sources.<\/p>\n

\u201cLess than a week after he left Tesla, Proception was incorporated,\u201d the complaint stated. \u201cAnd within just five months, Proception publicly claimed to have \u2018successfully built\u2019 advanced humanoid robotic hands\u2014hands that bear a striking resemblance to the designs Li worked on at Tesla.\u201d<\/p>\n

Proception\u2019s website states the company is working to \u201crevolutionize human-robot interaction by building the world\u2019s most advanced humanoid hands.\u201d<\/p>\n

TechCrunch reached out to Proception and Tesla for more information.<\/p>\n

Tesla\u2019s Optimus robotics program has been on a bit of a rocky path since the company unveiled it was building a humanoid robot, Tesla Bot, in 2021. In 2022, the company said that the bot, alongside other new products, would be introduced in 2023. But Optimus has remained in development.<\/p>\n

In July 2024, Tesla\u2019s Elon Musk said that the company would begin selling the robot in 2026. Just a few months later at Tesla\u2019s \u201cWe, Robot\u201d event in October 2024, Tesla\u2019s Optimus bots in attendance were largely controlled by humans offsite.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Tesla sued a former engineer for allegedly stealing trade secrets from its humanoid robotics program, Optimus, and using them to launch a rival startup. The lawsuit, which was filed on Wednesday and originally reported on by Bloomberg, accuses Zhongjie \u201cJay\u201d Li of stealing trade secrets regarding Tesla\u2019s development of \u201cadvanced robotic hand sensors\u201d to launch…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":674883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/YouTube-Thumb-Text-3.png?resize=1200,675","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[77337,97802,154171,157041,151454,36402,67874,151643],"class_list":["post-674882","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-ai","tag-robotics","tag-humanoid-robots","tag-robotics-startups","tag-tc","tag-tesla","tag-united-states","tag-y-combinator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674882","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=674882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/674882\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/674883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=674882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=674882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=674882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}