Yi Zhang
张毅
Yi Zhang is the founder and CEO of Weilai Buyuan (未来不远机器人), a consumer-grade home robotics startup. He spent three years bootstrapping before raising external capital, during which he placed robots in 300 Shanghai households to collect real-world scene data and drive product iteration . In January 2026, Weilai Buyuan closed a 200 million yuan angel round led by ZhenFund, which the firm described as pioneering the consumer deployment of general-purpose home robots . Zhang had first shared his vision for general-purpose home robots with ZhenFund as early as June 2022 . The company released its next-generation home robot, the F2, in April 2026 .
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