In March of this year, Zhang Yufeng, former president of Horizon Robotics, founded Wujie Power (Beijing) Technology Research and Development Co., Ltd. to enter the field of embodied intelligence. On November 4th, according to media reports, the team of Wujie Power has taken shape, and Zhang Yufeng has hired former Didi autonomous driving executive Xu Wenda as the core technology executive.
Public information shows that Xu Wenda previously served as the algorithm manager of KargoBot, a L4 level autonomous driving freight artificial intelligence technology company incubated by Didi. Earlier, Xu Wenda was a MotionalFellow VP and head of the autonomous driving algorithm team, as well as the engineering leader of the Las Vegas autonomous driving fleet. He graduated from the Department of Automation at Tsinghua University with a bachelor's degree and obtained a doctoral degree in Electronic and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in the United States.
It is understood that Wujie Power is a popular celebrity embodied project, with a first round financing valuation of 1 billion yuan. An investor stated that Horizon Robotics' technological strength in the field of autonomous driving is in the first tier, and Zhang Yufeng is the highest paid executive of Horizon Robotics, which investors generally believe in.
