Chat with Huang Qingqiu: Valued at 7 billion after just six months, co-invested by Alibaba and Tencent, it has delivered its first fully in-house developed model capable of "long-term execution.
# Dialogue with Huang Qingqiu: Six months after establishment, the company has a valuation of 7 billion yuan. Alibaba and Tencent jointly invested, and it has delivered the first self-developed model capable of “long-term execution”. The biggest concern in the robotics industry now is: Can it complete a whole task? Videos of robots grabbing items in just a few seconds can no longer serve as a basis for valuation. Completing a task from start to finish has become the latest challenge, which the industry calls “long-term task”. On August 19th, at the World Robotics Conference, a robot made its debut. In 15 minutes, it completed a series of actions including cleaning the living room, checking the refrigerator, taking clothes out of the dryer, putting them into a new batch, pressing the start button, and finally folding the clothes. MORPHI KINO robot, which is busy with laundry and household chores, was co-founded by Huang Qingqiu and Gao Wenli. It has only been established for 8 months. Huang Qingqiu was born in 1994, holds a bachelor’s degree in automation from Tsinghua University, and a doctorate from MMLab at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. During his five years in Huawei’s vehicle business unit, he rapidly rose to become the top executive in the intelligent driving AI department, leading the development of algorithms for Huawei’s intelligent driving ADS 1.0 to 4.0…