News Summary

• Zhou Yong is the 40-year-old founder and chief technology officer of LinkerBot.
• The startup’s hardware comes complete with five fingers and at least 11 joints and is sold for as little as $600 in China.
• In three to five years, Zhou predicts, the price for one will fall to just $200.
• Eventually, “everyone will own 10 robots on average,” Zhou said in an exclusive interview with WIRED.
• The company says it shipped 10,000 robotic hands last year, representing 80 percent of worldwide demand.