Jiaji Zhou
周佳骥
Jiaji Zhou is the co-founder and CEO of XYZ Robotics (星猿哲科技), a Shanghai-based robotics company focused on hand-eye coordination for logistics and industrial automation . A CMU Robotics Institute PhD, he won the 2016 ICRA Best Paper Award—only the third Chinese first-author recipient in the conference's then-30-year history . He co-founded XYZ Robotics in June 2018 with MIT EECS PhD Yu Guanting and Peking University master's graduate Xing Lianglibo; the team was the only one globally to place in the top three of Amazon's Robotics Picking Challenge for three consecutive years . Under Zhou, the company raised a Series A led by Gaorong Capital in 2019, a roughly $20 million Series A+ in 2020, a $35 million Series B in 2021, and a nearly $40 million Series B+ in 2022 . In 2022, Zhou was named to a "Pioneering Science and Technology Innovators" list by the Chinese edition of *Fortune* .
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Enable faster, more effective hand-eye coordination for robots across a broader range of scalable, replicable scenarios.
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