Luo Jianlan, a former Google researcher, has joined AgiBot as chief scientist and will lead its Zhiyuan Embodied Intelligence Research Centre in Shanghai.

AgiBot, founded in 2023 by former Huawei recruit Peng Zhihui, seeks to advance its AI and robotics research under Luo’s leadership.

Luo earned his PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, and previously worked at Google X and DeepMind, specializing in machine learning and robotics.

He also collaborated with Sergey Levine, co-founder of Physical Intelligence, and was a postdoctoral researcher at Berkeley AI Research Lab.