Lai Jie

Lai Jie holds a bachelor's degree from Xidian University and a master's degree in intelligent systems from Wuyi University, and was a research assistant at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University from 2012 to 2014. He joined Baidu in 2014 and led its Xiaodu robot team. In 2018 he became employee No.1 and architect of Tencent Robotics X, where he led development of the wheel-legged robot Ollie. He founded Astribot in December 2022 and serves as founder, chairman and CEO; the company pioneered a tendon-driven architecture with robots such as Astribot S1.