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 in robotics at Microsoft. He holds a master’s in electrical engineering and automation from Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
