Cheng Hao (程昊) - The Wire China

Cheng Hao is founder and chief executive of Booster Robotics, a maker of humanoid robots. Last year the company’s T1 robot placed first in a humanoid race at an international robotics conference in France last year. In January, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang autographed…

…the T1. Cheng founded Booster in 2023 with members of Tsinghua University’s Department of Automation and backing from China Minsheng Bank and Zhongguancun Science City, a state-owned investment fund. He holds a master’s degree from Tsinghua.

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