Guo Yandong (郭彦东) - The Wire China

Guo Yandong, who is in his early 40s, is founder and chief executive of AI² Robotics. The Shenzhen-based embodied AI firm makes humanoid robots — touting their industrial and domestic applications such as sorting packages and doing laundry. Guo founded…

…AI² in 2023 after working on AI at Microsoft. He was also chief scientist at EV maker Xpeng and smartphone manufacturer OPPO. Guo holds a doctorate in electronics and communications engineering from Purdue University.

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