Xiaopeng Robotics has established a new intelligent mimicry department to focus on multi-modal robots
Xiaopeng Robotics Center has newly established the Intelligent Mimicry Department, which focuses on robot multimodality. Its research directions include embodied intelligence native multimodal large models, world models, spatial intelligence, etc. The head of the department is Ge Yixiao, a former Tencent ARC Lab technical expert who recently joined Xiaopeng. He was promoted to Tencent T12 technical expert at the age of 28. As the main person in charge of multiple projects in the multimodal direction, Ge Yixiao won the Tencent Technology Breakthrough Award for two consecutive years in 2023 and 2024. A source said that there are currently only three members in the Intelligent Mimicry Department of Xiaopeng Robotics, including Ge Yixiao. The department has opened social recruitment, campus recruitment and internship recruitment. The recruitment position is "Research Scientist (Multimodal Direction)", and there are only two job descriptions: "Build industry-leading embodied intelligence native multimodal large models and world models, with the potential to be applied to general humanoid robots and even more embodied scenarios" and "Create technological influence and lead international industry development."