LC
Mi Liangchuan (professionally known as LC Mi) is Vice President at XPeng and head of the company's humanoid robotics division, a role he assumed in September 2023. He previously spent roughly a decade at NVIDIA in autonomous driving and AI engineering, then led autonomous driving efforts at XPeng before transitioning to robotics. He is known for approaching humanoid robots as social and emotional participants in human life rather than purely industrial products, and for applying a deliberately cross-domain perspective—spanning AI research, autonomous driving, and a brief robotics entrepreneurship stint—to the development of XPeng's IRON humanoid robot platform.
“LC is even crazier than me. He always tells me he wants to 'create humans,' not robots... His vector of thinking was fairly aligned with mine. He was one of the few people I selected within my thinking framework.”
Source→“LC is even crazier than me. He always tells me he wants to 'create humans,' not robots. The vast majority of people think of a robot as a commercial product, but I think he considered the robot's ultimate participation in society, in the universe, and its emotional connection with each of us.”
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