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Xing Wang

王兴

The closest match in elsewhere's corpus is Xingxing Wang (王兴兴), founder of Unitree Robotics — note the entity card for Meituan founder Wang Xing (王兴) is a different person. Xingxing Wang built his first quadruped robot, XDog, single-handedly during his 2013–2015 master's program — hardware, control algorithms, the lot, on almost no budget — winning second prize in a Shanghai robotics design competition three years before MIT open-sourced its own robot-dog algorithms . After a brief three-month stint at DJI, he took a 2 million RMB angel check in 2016 and founded Unitree, serving as both CEO and CTO . The early years were lean: his first institutional round only came in 2018 — 2 million RMB from Geekpark's Variable Capital — and at one point he paid salaries out of his own pocket, since he fit none of the VC imagination (no elite PhD, no overseas background, an unproven category) . The turn came after Unitree's robot dogs hit the CCTV Spring Festival Gala in 2021 and the Go1 dropped to 16,000 RMB; by the B2 round just before the 2024 Spring Festival, Meituan, CICC's GoldStone and Source Code Capital were all piling in, and per elsewhere's own exhibition marking its IPO, Unitree had flipped from "what's a robot dog even for" to "who can still get allocation" . His method, per a 源码资本-published interview, is unglamorous: "If you think about a problem 24 hours a day, I don't believe there's any problem that can't be solved" .

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