Xpeng loses another robotics veteran as production push nears

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An Xpeng Iron humanoid robot on display at the Beijing Auto Show in April 2026. Credit: CnEVPost Mi Liangchuan, head of Xpeng's robotics business, has departed recently, becoming the second key ...

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Credit: CnEVPost\n\n\nMi Liangchuan, head of Xpeng's robotics business, has departed recently, becoming the second key executive to leave its robotics team within a month.\nXpeng chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng is now personally serving as head of the company's robotics center and its product division.\n\n\nXpeng (NYSE: XPEV) has lost another senior executive from its robotics business, adding uncertainty to its push for mass production by year-end.\nThe head of the company's robotics business, Mi Liangchuan, has departed recently, according to a report by 21jingji on Tuesday.\nXpeng chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng is now personally serving as head of the company's robotics center and its product division, the report noted.\n\n\nJoin us on \nTelegram\n or \nGoogle News\n\n\nThis is the second key figure Xpeng's robotics team has lost within a month. Earlier this month, lead product chief Shi Xiaoxin also departed.\nMi had previously been regarded as one of the four core figures steering Xpeng's robotics team, alongside Chen Jie, Ge Yixiao and Liu Xianming, 21jingji noted.\nBefore joining Xpeng, Mi worked at Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) for nearly 15 years, with extensive experience in autonomous driving.\nHe joined Xpeng in 2021 as senior director of autonomous driving. In September 2023, he was promoted to head of the robotics business.\nDuring Mi's tenure, Xpeng's humanoid robot Iron achieved a highly anthropomorphic walking gait, drawing attention at the company's tech day last November.\nIn an interview in November 2025, Mi recalled that before Iron achieved natural walking, he and his team had once been \"deeply despairing\" for as long as half a year.\nThe turning point came on March 26, 2025, when he saw on a monitor that Iron could \"walk backward,\" marking an important inflection point in motion control, according to 21jingji.\nMi described that moment as the \"ChatGPT Moment\" for Xpeng Iron's motion control, attributing it to the team's breakthrough in \"spine\" technology.\nHe has also explained the logic behind Xpeng's commitment to the humanoid path. He argued that human environments and tools have been designed as humanoid centric for thousands of years.\nThe second reason is that designing specially designed hardware for specific needs means any functional change would drive up costs. A humanoid robot, by contrast, can be continuously upgraded via software OTA.\nThis personnel turbulence comes as Xpeng undertakes a major restructuring of its robotics business. Mr. He announced in a June 10 internal letter that he would personally serve as \"CEO\" of the robotics business.\nHe called the move an important step in Xpeng's strategic transformation from a smart car company into a \"physical AI company.\"\nXpeng subsequently created nine second-tier departments, integrating core modules including hardware, AI large models, supply chain, precision manufacturing and marketing.\nHe said the robotics business now stands \"on the eve of mass production and commercialization,\" with high complexity that requires coordinated resources across the entire group.\nAccording to the company's plans, Xpeng will achieve scaled mass production and initial deliveries of its advanced humanoid robots in the fourth quarter of 2026.\nTo support this goal, Xpeng's humanoid robot mass-production base broke ground earlier this year in Guangzhou's Tianhe district, the industry's first such base.\nIn early June, the first phase of the mass-production base project completed concrete pouring for the first section of the plant, moving into construction of the upper main structure, 21jingji noted.\nChinese automakers including Li Auto (NASDAQ: LI), Seres (HKEX: 9927), Chery (HKEX: 9973) and BYD (HKEX: 1211) have all bet on a robotics transformation.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMusk on Xpeng's Iron humanoid robot: 'Tesla and China companies will dominate the market' - CnEVPost\n\"Other companies in the West are weak,\" Musk said.\n\n\nXpeng\nNov 7, 2025\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n($1 = 6.7942 yuan)","kind":"highlight","is_publish_news":true,"is_publish_highlight":false,"is_publish_live":false,"is_publish_wemedia":false,"editions":null,"column":"","sentiment":"0","news_tag":"","news_rank":0,"isVideo":false,"video":null,"symbols":[],"gpt_button":0,"need_auth":false,"need_login_tip":false,"code":"91000000","status":"200"}}}