DEPLOYDatabase

Person

Liangchuan Mi

Vice President of Robotics at XPeng and former Head of the XPeng Robotics Business Unit (appointed Sept 2023). Led the technical roadmap, organizational structure, and product implementation for XPeng's humanoid robotics project (IRON). Previously Senior Director of Autonomous Driving at XPeng (joined 2021).

Spent a decade at NVIDIA (2005-2015) as a software engineer and later Senior Software Engineering Manager, then co-founded robotics startup MiVee as CTO (2015-2016) before rejoining NVIDIA's Autonomous Driving unit. M.S. in Robotics from Iowa State University; worked at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute. Departed XPeng in 2026 amid a broader executive turnover in the robotics division.

Chinese · 1 current role

Track Liangchuan Mi

Physical AI footprint (1)

The physical AI companies Liangchuan is connected to that DEPLOY verifies. The full record is one click away.

  • Dogotixverified→
    Head of Robotics Division

    Dogotix is the standalone robotics subsidiary of [XPeng](/companies/xpeng) (NYSE: XPEV), carved out in August 2026 to develop general-purpose humanoid, bipedal,

    Series A · $900M

Current roles (1)

  • Dogotix Head of Robotics DivisionSecondary-verified

Sources (3)

  1. https://baike.baidu.com/en/item/Mi%20Liangchuan/2462170
  2. https://cnevpost.com/2026/06/30/xpeng-loses-another-robotics-veteran/
  3. https://kr-asia.com/mi-liangchuans-exit-deepens-pressure-on-xpengs-robotics-push

Mentioned on (1)

Registry pages whose text names Liangchuan Mi.

Companies (1)

Dogotix

Deploy Watch

Track Liangchuan Mi on Deploy.

We notify you when a verified role changes, a founded-company event lands, or litigation surfaces.