# Zhu Yichen

A University of Toronto graduate and serial entrepreneur from the post ’95 generation, associated with Current Robotics. Previously head of embodied intelligence at Midea Group and a robotics R&D engineer at its AI Innovation Center, leading robotic dexterous manipulation and UMI data collection systems. Among China’s earliest researchers to release VLA and world models, proposing approaches including TinyVLA.

A University of Toronto graduate and serial entrepreneur from the post ’95 generation, associated with Current Robotics. Previously head of embodied intelligence at Midea Group and a robotics R&D engineer at its AI Innovation Center, leading robotic dexterous manipulation and UMI data collection systems. Among China’s earliest researchers to release VLA and world models, proposing approaches including TinyVLA.

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