About Mq Wang
In a 2017 talk at SYNC, MQ Wang, founder and CEO of Zero Zero Robotics, discussed the philosophy behind his company's product, the Hover Camera. Wang stated that "the best technology are the ones that will actually improve your life" and should be "simple" and "easy for the average consumer." He described the Hover Camera as a personal robotics device designed to autonomously capture moments, such as a father taking his daughter out, without requiring a human pilot. Wang argued that "there's something fundamentally wrong with the way that we take photos for the past 160 years," asserting that people have been "artificially composing moments instead of capturing those moments," and expressed a desire to change that through robotic devices.
Wang noted that Zero Zero Robotics, a small startup headquartered in Beijing with team members from Silicon Valley, launched the Hover Camera globally in Apple stores in April 2017. He mentioned that the product had won design awards and that some Apple stores had sold out. At the event, Wang demonstrated the device's autonomous following and hovering features, emphasizing its safety with enclosed propellers.
Source: AI-verified profile updated from Mq Wang's recent appearances.
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Transcript (2 segments)
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Host0:27
Thank you, Mark. And now for our next session, it will be about robotics. It's definitely not the robotics you might imagine, but I think you may have seen its product before. So let's welcome Mq Wang. He's the co-founder and CEO of Zero Zero Robotics. Let's welcome!
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Mq Wang0:56
Thank you. It's good to be here. My name is Mq Wang. I'm the founder and CEO of Zero Zero Robotics. We're a small startup headquartered in Beijing, but many of our team members, including myself, have academic and professional roots in Silicon Valley. My co-founder Tony and I attended Stanford and completed our PhDs in engineering. We started in 2014. I'm excited to share our thinking behind our product and how we see robotics fitting into people's lives. We began by asking: what technology actually improves your life? Photos and videos are the most important applications today because they extend our memory. But the way we take them is broken—you stop, find someone to hold the camera, and compose a fake moment. We wanted to offer an alternative perspective: a third-person, bird's-eye view. Drones in the past are big and dangerous; we wanted a device that's about you, capturing real moments with family. Our product, Hover Camera, is safe with protected propellers, weighs only 242 grams, and is easy to use with a single button. It hovers autonomously, recognizes you, and responds to gestures. It uses a Qualcomm Snapdragon 801 chipset for computer vision and localization. We soft-launched in Beijing last October and have won design awards. We're now partnering with Apple and available in their stores globally. Our mission is simple: capture the moments that matter, not artificially compose them. Thank you.
