{"id":100016,"date":"2025-10-25T06:45:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/100016\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T06:45:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T06:45:10","slug":"little-dragon-deep-robotics-scrambles-for-top-talent-amid-chinas-quest-for-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/100016\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Little Dragon\u2019 Deep Robotics scrambles for top talent amid China\u2019s quest for dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Deep Robotics, a Hangzhou-based start-up, is facing a severe talent shortage, hindering its efforts to commercialise the results of its research and development, according to its chief technology officer (CTO).<\/p>\n<p>Li Chao, who is also a co-founder of the robot maker, said at the Bund Summit Financial Forum in Shanghai on Friday that <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/companies\/article\/3135105\/chinas-electric-vehicle-makers-woo-engineers-workers-they?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">highly skilled<\/a> professionals were very much needed to help Deep Robotics take its business forward.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">He added that top talent in the algorithm area was in strong demand, which the company needed to fine-tune its humanoid robots to better serve clients.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cRobots are [penetrating] every manufacturing sector,\u201d Li said. \u201cAs a company, we must seize the opportunity to make our products not only usable but also reliable in some industrial scenarios.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Deep Robotics has launched the DR02 industrial-grade robot capable of operating reliably under all weather conditions. Photo: Handout\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/77163639-a0b0-48eb-a56c-93c62b4ef6e9_781eca87.jpg\" title=\"Deep Robotics has launched the DR02 industrial-grade robot capable of operating reliably under all weather conditions. Photo: Handout\"\/>Deep Robotics has launched the DR02 industrial-grade robot capable of operating reliably under all weather conditions. Photo: Handout<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Deep Robotics was founded by CEO Zhu Qiuguo in 2017, when he was an associate professor at Zhejiang University.<\/p>\n<p>The company is part of an unofficial group of start-ups dubbed the \u201cSix Little Dragons of Hangzhou\u201d, alongside <a target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/business\/china-business\/article\/3298673\/how-deepseeks-ai-has-become-must-have-feature-chinese-smart-evs?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">artificial intelligence developer DeepSeek<\/a>, video game studio Game Science, brain-machine interface innovator BrainCo, 3D interior design software developer Manycore and robot maker Unitree Robotics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deep Robotics, a Hangzhou-based start-up, is facing a severe talent shortage, hindering its efforts to commercialise the results&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,73162,7708,73165,8870,19813,111,139,69,73163,73164,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-100016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-deep-robotics","12":"tag-deepseek","13":"tag-go-global-drive","14":"tag-hangzhou","15":"tag-humanoid-robots","16":"tag-new-zealand","17":"tag-newzealand","18":"tag-nz","19":"tag-six-little-dragons","20":"tag-skill-shortage","21":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}