# Deng Taihua

Co-founder, Chairman, and CEO, AgiBot. TIME100 AI 2026, Innovators. He co-founded AgiBot in 2023 but made his first public appearance only in August 2025, the year it shipped more humanoid robots than anyone. ([baike.baidu.com](https://baike.baidu.com/en/item/Deng%20Taihua/1483725))

- Born: 1977 ([baike.baidu.com](https://baike.baidu.com/en/item/Deng%20Taihua/1483725))
- Education: Bachelor's, Computer communications, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China ([baike.baidu.com](https://baike.baidu.com/en/item/Deng%20Taihua/1483725))
- Career: AgiBot (Co-founder, Chairman and CEO, 2023 to now); Huawei (Senior Vice President; President, Computing Product Line, until 2022) ([baike.baidu.com](https://baike.baidu.com/en/item/Deng%20Taihua/1483725), [time.com](https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/deng-taihua/), [qbitai.com](https://www.qbitai.com/2026/08/480666.html), [36kr.com](https://36kr.com/p/3381110559889799))
- TIME profile: https://time.com/collection/time100-ai/2026/deng-taihua/
- Profile: https://www.autumn.ai/resources/most-influential-people-in-ai/deng-taihua

- Spent more than 20 years at Huawei, starting in wireless networks; in 2017 he gave a 5G keynote in London as head of its wireless product line. ([huawei.com](https://www.huawei.com/cn/news/2017/11/5g-era-mobile-network))
- As head of Huawei's computing product line he led its Kunpeng and Ascend AI chip ecosystems, before leaving to build robots. ([baike.baidu.com](https://baike.baidu.com/en/item/Deng%20Taihua/1483725))
- His co-founder Peng Zhihui once worked under him at Huawei, hired as a genius youth into the Ascend AI chip unit. ([36kr.com](https://36kr.com/p/3381110559889799))
- Ran AgiBot out of public view for over two years; his first public appearance as founder was at its partner conference in August 2025. ([baike.baidu.com](https://baike.baidu.com/en/item/Deng%20Taihua/1483725))
- AgiBot shipped more than 5,100 humanoid robots in 2025, ranking first in the world. ([baike.baidu.com](https://baike.baidu.com/en/item/Deng%20Taihua/1483725))
- On profits: "We are not in a hurry to pursue positive net profit." ([eu.36kr.com](https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3809271853965060))