Former Tesla Optimus lead launches industrial robot startup

Ashish Kumar, former AI lead for Tesla's Optimus humanoid robots, has co-founded Intelligent Machines, a San Francisco startup building non-humanoid robots for manufacturing and aerospace. The company has hired several ex-Optimus team members and is raising a seed round that could reach $100 million.

• Intelligent Machines was founded by a former Tesla Optimus AI lead
• The startup has hired several former members of Tesla's Optimus team
• It is raising a seed round that could reach around $100 million
• Robots are trained with reinforcement learning for complex tasks