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Huang Yi Named to 2026 Fortune U40 Potential List

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Huang Yi, founder and CEO of RoboParty, was named to the 2026 Fortune China 40 Under 40 Most Promising Business Elites list, becoming at age 22 the youngest person on this year's list in China; he had previously been named to the 2026 Forbes Asia 30 Under 30 list. Born in 2004, Huang Yi built the bipedal robot AlexBot himself while studying at Harbin Institute of Technology and open-sourced it in full stack; in 2025 he graduated with his bachelor's degree ahead of schedule and founded RoboParty. The company's open-source project RPO has gained over 2,600 stars on GitHub, and the company has completed a nearly 500 million yuan angel++ round and Pre-A round of financing, with the Pre-A round exclusively invested by CATL.