Aaron Qin
秦佑铭
Aaron Qin (秦佑铭) is the co-founder and CEO of Manifold Tech (留形科技), a robotics perception company he established in 2022 with fellow HKU MaRS Lab PhD Eric Xu (徐威), the first author of the FAST-LIO algorithm . The company, registered from his dorm room at HKU's Lee Ka Shing Hall 709, builds spatial perception systems for embodied intelligence — what Qin describes as giving mobile robots a "hippocampus" .
Qin's path into robotics began at Virginia Tech in 2017, when his RoboMaster team became one of just two North American squads to reach the finals, a moment that convinced him perception systems were the decisive factor in robotics . At HKU, he and Xu spent years stress-testing algorithms in a steam boiler room, routinely crashing drones in the process . Manifold Tech's products reportedly turned profitable within three months of launch .
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