By South China Morning Post | Created at 2025-04-02 13:26:29 | Updated at 2025-04-04 02:16:49
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Known as a leading scholar in AI and robotics, Luo will spearhead the establishment of the Zhiyuan Embodied Intelligence Research Centre as the newly appointed chief scientist of AgiBot, a start-up co-founded in 2023 by former Huawei Technologies “Genius Youth” recruit Peng Zhihui.
Luo has closely collaborated with renowned computer scientist Sergey Levine, a co-founder of San Francisco-based AI start-up Physical Intelligence. He previously worked at Google’s “moon shot factory” Google X and AI research lab Google DeepMind.
Luo – who obtained his doctoral degree from the University of California, Berkeley and served as a postdoctoral scholar at the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Lab – is the latest US-trained scientist to return to China and join prominent domestic start-ups and institutions.
Born in 1993, Luo graduated from the Wuhan University of Technology’s Automotive School before he was admitted into UC Berkeley in 2015.
In his web page, Luo wrote that his research centres on “enabling robust long-term autonomy for complex real-world systems; drawing on tools and concepts from machine learning, controls and robotics”.
