Manifold Tech
留形科技
Manifold Tech (留形科技) is a robotics perception startup co-founded by Aaron Qin (秦佑铭) and Eric Xu (徐威), two HKU PhDs from the MaRS Lab who graduated at the end of 2022; Qin registered the company in his HKU dorm room after coming up through RoboMaster, and Xu serves as CTO . Per a ZhenFund piece, the company works on what it calls the most critical perception layer for general embodied intelligence — "giving every mobile robot a hippocampus" — and ZhenFund provided its first capital via a seed round .
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