What's the story Tesla has sued its former engineer, Zhongjie "Jay" Li, for allegedly stealing trade secrets from the company's humanoid robotics program, Optimus. The lawsuit was filed earlier this week in a San Francisco federal court. It accuses Li of using this confidential information to launch his own start-up called Proception, a Y Combinator-backed company building robotic hands. Trade secret theft Details of the complaint The lawsuit claims that Li, who worked on "advanced robotic hand sensors," downloaded confidential Optimus files onto two personal smartphones during his employment at Tesla from August 2022 to September 2024. The complaint also says that in the last few months of his tenure, Li searched for "humanoid robotic hands" on his work computer and looked up venture capital and other funding sources for start-ups. Start-up launch