Tesla’s vice president of AI software Ashok Elluswamy told engineers working on Autopilot, the Optimus humanoid robot, and ...

In 2022, Elon Musk made a gamble that rattled his top engineers. The Tesla CEO scrapped the ultrasonic sensors that helped power the company's self-driving technology, and its vehicles began relying ...

In a closed‑door meeting that stretched nearly two hours, Tesla’s vice president of AI software, Ashok Elluswamy, told Autopilot and Optimus engineers that 2026 would be “the hardest year” of their ...