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Qu Daokui (曲道奎)

Qu Daokui, 63, is the founder of Siasun Robot & Automation, a robotics manufacturer with a market cap of $3.75 billion whose largest shareholder is...

Gu Yanmin (顾炎民)

Gu Yanmin, born in 1963, is the head of the robotics and automation division at Guangdong-based appliance company Midea Group, having worked at the company...

Qian Dongqi (钱东奇)

Qian Dongqi, 67, is the billionaire founder and chairman of Ecovacs Robotics, China’s leading maker of robotic appliances such as the ‘Deebot’ vacuum cleaner and...

Zhang Zhengyou (张正友)

Zhang Zhengyou, 60, is the director of Robotics X, the robotics division of tech giant Tencent. The firm has so far pitched its robots toward...

Li Jianguo (李建国)

Li Jianguo, born in 1964, is the president of the manufacturing division at tech conglomerate Huawei. The firm established an embodied AI innovation center last...

Shao Tianlan (邵天兰)

Shao Tianlan, who is in his mid-30s, is founder and chief executive of Mech-Mind Robotics. The company designs embodied AI software for industrial robots with...

Zhao Yue (赵越)

Zhao Yue, who is in his mid 30s, is founder and chief executive of SEER Robotics. The firm says it is the global market leader...

Wang Guangneng (王光能)

Wang Guangneng, who is in his mid 40s, is chief executive of Huayan Robotics, a maker of collaborative robots used on production and assembly lines....

Wang Xingxing (王兴兴)

Wang Xingxing, born in 1990, is the founder, chief executive and chief technology officer of Hangzhou-based robotics firm Unitree, which is reportedly planning a $7...

Qiu Chunxin (邱纯鑫)

Qiu Chunxin, born in 1983, is chief scientist and chairman of RoboSense, a maker of Lidar systems that autonomous robots use to navigate. The Hong...

Shi Zelin (史泽林)

Shi Zelin, born in 1965, is the director of the Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA) at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. SIA is one of...

Zhou Jian (周剑)

Zhou Jian, 49, is the Founder, Chairman of the Board, and chief executive of Shenzhen-based UBTech Robotics, which he founded in 2012. The Hong Kong-listed...