Chen Yuqi

Born in 1989 in Wuhu, Anhui province. He earned a bachelor's degree in electronic and information engineering from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University in October 2012 and a master's degree in robotics from ETH Zurich, where his thesis project was a tote-picking robot. In 2014, building on that undergraduate project, he founded Hong Kong Puge Precision Systems, whose bias controllers were sold to customers including NASA, Bell Labs and Huawei. He founded HAI Robotics in Dongguan in December 2016 and became chief executive officer, adding the role of chairman of the board in June 2018; the company pioneered the box-handling autonomous mobile robot category. He was named to Fortune China's 40 Under 40 list in May 2021. He holds 7.92% of the shares but 63.23% of the voting rights through a weighted voting rights structure.