ZHAODONG LOKE

Building for
the physical world.

Technical generalist. I’m most useful helping engineers and researchers navigate complex operating environments and commercial priorities. I’ve worked across policy, marketing and evals in aviation, energy and robotics.

Blueprint illustration of Memo, Sunday Robotics’ home robot
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Singapore → California

ORIGIN

Singapore

Home

Where it all began. They say it takes a village. I probably needed three. Fortunate to have been surrounded by people who sparked my curiosity and helped me find my feet. A scholarship gave me the chance to take the next step in the UK.

EDUCATION

London + Oxford

University

Studied at UCL and Oxford. Read a lot, lived on Tesco meal deals, and learned a little more about myself and the world.

AVIATION

Singapore

Civil Aviation · Policy
Architectural line illustration of Singapore’s Supertree

Modernized air traffic management across Southeast Asia and connected Singapore to more of the world.

ENERGY

California

Tesla · Marketing

Helped scale Powerwall to over a million deployments worldwide.

ROBOTICS

California

Sunday Robotics · Evals
Blueprint illustration of Memo

Leading evals for general-purpose robots that can operate reliably in the physical world.

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A few things I’ve worked on

Tesla / Energy

Tesla’s Virtual Power Plant

Grew Tesla’s VPP program, connecting Powerwall owners to support their local grids and earn money by sharing stored energy.

Explore Tesla’s VPP
Sunday Robotics / Robotics

ACT-2: Generalizing Reliability

Sunday’s foundation model generalizes capability gains from in-house training to unseen homes. I led the evals for this project and the writing of this article explaining the research and results.

Read the ACT-2 preview
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Beyond work

When I’m not thinking about robots, I’m usually thinking about people, culture, politics and what makes businesses endure. I also invest in founders building things I think should exist.