Tong Li
李通
Tong Li is the founder and CEO of Keenon Robotics (擎朗智能), a service-robotics company he started in 2010 while still a student, building on an early passion for robots that began with university projects like soccer-playing robots and home-assistant prototypes . In Yunqi Capital's 2025 profile, he described how he gathered like-minded engineers and won school innovation grants to pursue the idea, motivated partly by the scarcity of robot companies at the time . More than a decade later, Keenon has expanded internationally, and Li has framed its go-to-market strategy as "job-positioning" (岗位化) — designing robots around specific workplace roles rather than general-purpose automation . He remains actively involved in the company's global localization efforts and has represented Keenon in state-media interviews during China's Two Sessions .
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Yunqi Capital WAIC Recap | Four Days That Weren't Enough, and Where AI Is Headed Next
The future belongs to the doers.
Fifteen Years Building a Startup, He's Now Deploying Robots Worldwide | Yunqi Capital Doers
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Deep industry expertise, real value creation.
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Keen on robotics, always passionate.
