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Li Zhenyu

Chairman and co-founder of TARS Robotics. Former President of Baidu's Intelligent Driving Group (IDG), where he led the Apollo autonomous driving platform.

Chinese · 1 current role · 1 founding

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  • TARS Roboticsverified→
    Founder

    AI-driven [Embodied intelligence](/companies/embodied-intelligence) company building humanoid robots for ultra-fine manipulation tasks.

    Pre-A · $455M1 model
  • Baiduverified→
    Former President of Intelligent Driving Group (Apollo)

    Chinese AI and internet company (NASDAQ: BIDU; HKEX: 9888) that operates Apollo Go, the largest autonomous ride-hailing (robotaxi) operation in the Eastern hemi

    Apollo Pre-IPO Strategic Round · $1.5B7 verified deployments · Apollo RT6 at Dubai →4 incidents2 models

Current roles (1)

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Former / Previously (1)

  • Baidu President of Intelligent Driving Group (Apollo)Reported, not verified

Sources (2)

  1. https://app.dealroom.co/companies/tars_robotics
  2. https://autonews.gasgoo.com/articles/news/seeds-former-huawei-and-baidu-executives-team-up-secure-over-3-billion-yuan-in-financing-2044746801104470017

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