Chen Jianyu, 33, is founder of RobotEra, a Beijing-based maker of humanoid robots that the company says can run 8 miles per hour. It also claims nine of the world’s ten largest tech firms as customers. One RobotEra humanoid recently donned sneakers for a…
…run through the Gobi Desert. Chen started the company in 2023 with the support of backers including Tsinghua University, where he runs a robotics lab and serves as an assistant professor. It is the only embodied AI firm backed by Tsinghua. Chen holds a doctorate in robotics from University of California, Berkeley.
