Eric Xu
徐威
Eric Xu (徐威) is a co-founder and CTO of Liuxing Technology (留形科技), a robotics startup he established in 2022 with fellow HKU PhD Qin Youming (秦佑铭) . The two met at the University of Hong Kong's MaRS Lab, where Xu was the first author of FAST-LIO, an open-source 3D mapping project that gained international traction with 2.4k GitHub stars . Their company, born from this drone lab research, developed products for 3D reconstruction and spatial perception; its initial offering turned profitable within three months of launch . More recently, the team has been building compact NPU modules that handle spatial memory, semantic image processing, and real-time mapping—described as a "hippocampus" for mobile robots . Xu was named to a ZhenFund "stars" list in early 2026 alongside Qin .
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