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Tianlan Shao

邵天兰

Tianlan Shao is the founder and chairman/CEO of Mech-Mind Robotics, the "robot brain" company that listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in late August 2026, where he said the combination of AI and robotics is "one of the biggest opportunities of this era." He graduated from Tsinghua's School of Software in 2012, earned a master's in robotics from TU Munich in 2015 with top honors, worked at a German robotics firm, and returned to China in October 2016 to found Mech-Mind — building AI-driven industrial robots centered on 3D vision and deep learning for logistics and manufacturing. Six years in, per Source Code Capital's account, he had grown it into one of the largest and fastest-scaling AI + industrial robotics companies globally while still calling himself "the company's No. 1 customer service rep." Qiming's Alex Zhou, who backed the company in 2019, credits Shao with sharp technical insight plus a rare "plain commercial discipline" — insisting on standardized product lines and multilevel delivery ecosystems rather than burning capital for market share, which he says underpinned the company's strong financials at IPO. In January 2026 he also appeared at Davos, arguing physical AI matters more than humanoids and that large-scale deployment in well-bounded manufacturing and logistics tasks is now essentially mature.

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