Han Fengtao (韩峰涛) - The Wire China

Han Fengtao is founder and chief executive of Spirit AI, a maker of humanoid robots which run on wheels rather than feet. The embodied AI company announced that it raised $84 million in initial funding in July. Han was chief technology officer and co-founder of…

…collaborative robot firm Rokae Robotics before starting Spirit AI last year. He holds a master’s from Zhejiang University.

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