Zheng Yong (鄭勇) - The Wire China

Zheng, 45, is founder and chief executive at Geek+, which claims to be the global market leader for so-called autonomous mobile robots used in warehouses. The Beijing-based, Hong Kong-listed firm has a market cap of $4.4 billion and offices in…

…the U.S., Europe and Asia. Zheng began his career at European robotics firm ABB and founded Geek+ in 2015. He holds a joint master’s in production engineering from Tsinghua University and Germany’s RWTH Aachen University.

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