Maoqing Yao
姚卯青
Maoqing Yao is a co-founder and co-president of embodied-robotics company AgiBot (智元机器人), where he heads the embodied AI business — a role cited in recent 十字路口Crossing roundtable coverage from September 2026 . His earlier framing was as executive dean of AgiBot's robotics research institute, noted in a 2025 暗涌Waves interview for his technical background ; by mid-2026 BlueRun Ventures described him as partner, SVP, and president of the embodied business unit (also chairman/CEO of Mifeng Technology), arguing at WAIC that world models should predict the next state of the physical world, not just the next frame . Beyond these roles, elsewhere's corpus carries little personal background on him.
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Coverage
Is OpenAI Astra a Crushing Blow to Embodied Models? Seven Takes from Two Roundtables
After Astra's Debut, Do Embodied AI Companies Still Have a Moat?
What Will It Take for Robots to Move Beyond Demos? We Talked to AgiBot, AI2Robotics, Luming Robotics, Inverse Matrix, and JD.com
You have to reach for the heights and still make it across the river.
Qiming Weekly | Top 10 Updates from Qiming Venture Partners Portfolio Companies Vol.26, Aug. 18, 2026
Celebrating milestone moments with Qiming Venture Partners' portfolio companies
From AI New Species to AI New Ecosystem | BlueRun Ventures at WAIC 2026
Moving Together Toward New Frontiers of Capability
Qiming Headlines: Intelligence Ignites the Future — Qiming Venture Partners' 17th RMB Fund Annual Meeting and Investor Summit Successfully Held in Shanghai
Qiming Venture Partners Maintains Investment Discipline, Proactively Captures Market Opportunities as Deal Flow Continues
Yunqi Capital x Tsinghua University | 5 Embodied AI "Heavyweights" on Physical AI and Commercialization
Finding the Decisive Factor in Embodied AI's Path to Market
A BlueRun Ventures portfolio company delivered a striking glimpse of AI's next evolutionary leap at WAIC.
Evolution, Toward the Future
AgiBot's Chief Scientist: "The Biggest Misunderstanding of Embodied AI Is Treating It Like a Large Language Model" | BlueRun Ventures Family Headline
Now is the best time to enter embodied AI.
A Conversation with Zhiyuan's Chief Scientist: Calling Embodied Intelligence "the Next LLM" Is Its Biggest Misunderstanding
Necessary froth.
BlueRun Ventures in Conversation with Galaxy Universal, AgiBot, and Lingchu Intelligence: When Embodied Intelligence Enters Reality | The Road to AGI
Between Science and Reality
