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Peng Zhihui

President and CTO, AgiBot

  • Co-founder, President and CTO, AgiBot since 20232

Peng Zhihui (稚晖君) is co-founder, president, and CTO of AgiBot (智元机器人), a Shanghai embodied-AI humanoid robotics company. He was a high-profile Huawei "Genius Youth" AI algorithm engineer working on Ascend chips and edge AI before leaving in late 2022 to start AgiBot with Deng Taihua. He is also known for popular open hardware and robotics projects on GitHub.123

At a glance

Current role
Co-founder, President and CTO
Company
AgiBot
Sources cited
3
Profile reviewed

Accomplishments

  • AgiBot co-founder, president and CTO.2
  • Former Huawei Genius Youth recruit.1

Huawei to AgiBot

SCMP covered Peng's departure from Huawei's Genius Youth program as a talent blow for the company. Crunchbase and company materials list him as AgiBot co-founder, president, and CTO driving embodied AI robots toward commercial deployment.12

Timeline

  1. Joined Huawei Genius Youth program.1
  2. Left Huawei.1
  3. Co-founded AgiBot.2

Other documented roles

Roles the sources document that are not confirmed as current.

  • AI algorithm engineer (Genius Youth), Huawei1

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References

3 sources · profile reviewed Oct 24, 2026 · data updated Oct 24, 2026

  1. Huawei loses Genius Youth recruit Peng ZhihuiSCMP · accessed Oct 24, 2026
  2. Peng Zhihui — CrunchbaseCrunchbase · Official page · accessed Oct 24, 2026
  3. Profile: A Chinese prodigy on a mission to bring robots to lifeXinhua · accessed Oct 24, 2026