PM joins Spirit AI on humanoid robots: good demos are far from deployable products
yongqianme · x · 2026-09-30
Qian (@yongqianme) announced she joined embodied AI startup Spirit AI (千寻智能) to lead humanoid robot product work, after a career spanning a 2005 robotics internship, standardized flexible robots, Industrial IoT startups in China and the US, and an exit from AIGC venture DeepFashion AI.
In a follow-up update she notes she's been working as a contract PM on humanoid robot projects. Her key observation: humanoid robotics is still very early — there's a huge gap between a good demo and a product customers will actually pay for and deploy.
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