Chen Zhaopeng

Bachelor's and master's at Harbin Institute of Technology's robotics institute under academician Liu Hong, then a joint HIT-DLR (German Aerospace Center) PhD; former deputy head of DLR's modular dexterous robotics lab. In 2018 he co-founded Agile Robots with DLR colleague and dexterous-hand expert Peter Meusel, running dual headquarters in Munich and Beijing as CEO. Starting from force control, the company raised a USD 220 million Series C led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2 in 2021 to reach unicorn status, with Xiaomi and Foxconn Industrial Internet among backers; products span the DIANA seven-axis force-controlled arms, five-finger dexterous hands, AgileCore-OS and the Agile ONE humanoid, with nearly 40,000 robots delivered.