Indian-origin engineer Ashok Elluswamy, who currently heads Tesla's Autopilot division, has also been put in charge of the company's Optimus humanoid robot project, Bloomberg reported. This comes after Milan Kovac, head of Optimus, announced his departure from the position. Earlier, CEO Elon Musk, while referring to an old post on X, said, "Ashok…was...first person I interviewed (for Autopilot)."