Wei Hongxing

Born in January 1974 in Inner Mongolia; bachelor's from Inner Mongolia University of Technology (1995) and PhD in control theory from Harbin Engineering University (2001). Postdoc then faculty at Beihang University (associate professor 2004, professor 2013), with visiting appointments at Michigan Technological University and PolyU; now professor and head of Beihang's Embodied AI Robotics Institute. Built a cobot prototype in 2010 and founded AUBO Robotics in January 2015 as an on-post entrepreneurial venture, launching the AUBO-i5; insisting on domestic core components (now 98%), AUBO has ranked second globally in cobot shipments for years. He led the project on high-precision modular collaborative robots that won a Second Prize of the 2025 State Science and Technology Progress Award.