Zhejiang University (ZJU) is a major Chinese public research university founded in 1897 and ranked among China's top institutions, offering programs across 12 academic disciplines including a pioneering undergraduate AI and robotics curriculum. It is a leading institutional research actor in AI and robotics, with industry partnerships spanning Microsoft Research Asia, Alibaba DAMO Academy, and Zhejiang Laboratory, and has served as a key talent pipeline for prominent AI startups such as DeepSeek and DEEP Robotics.
“Siliang Tang and Yueting Zhuang — Zhejiang University; senior faculty co-authors. Both are established researchers in multimodal learning.”
Source→“PIPER Robotics — Their NERO (7F) 7-DoF arm is the physical deployment platform, described as having '1.5 kg payload, 580 mm reach, and ±0.1 mm repeatability' (Appendix 11).”