Zhu Qiuguo (朱秋国) - The Wire China

Zhu Qiuguo, born in 1982, is founder, chairman and chief executive of Deep Robotics, a maker of robotic dogs that can climb steep stairs in pitch darkness and cope with hazardous terrains. The embodied AI company claims to be the first in China whose…

…robots can autonomously inspect power substations. It is worth between $300 and $500 million, according to Caixin. Zhu founded DEEP Robotics in 2017, and holds a doctorate in engineering from Zhejiang University, where he is also an associate professor.

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