Li Tong is founder and chief executive of Keenon Robotics, a Shanghai-based maker of commercial service robots, which perform tasks like waiting tables and scrubbing floors. It unveiled two such robots at a conference in Shanghai earlier this year.
The Softbank and Saudi Aramco-backed company is currently worth $1 billion, according to S&P Capital IQ, and controls the largest share of the global market for its sector, according to research firm IDC. Li founded Keenon in 2010 after working
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