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 the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS). The firm specializes in industrial robots that can perform…
…tasks like welding and sorting. It became the first Chinese robotics company to float its shares when it went public in Shenzhen in 2009. Qu founded Shenyang-based Siasun in 2000 and has run several national robotics industry groups. He retired from the company last year. He holds a master’s degree from Shenyang Institute of Automation, which is part of CAS.
