🇨🇳 Iron (next-gen)
XPeng · China · unveiled 2024
prototype
supervised-autonomy
electric
data confidence: medium
58.1
XHI Score
Rank #14 of 71
Score breakdown
Autonomy & Intelligence · 25%83.0
Manipulation & Dexterity · 20%70.0
Mobility & Locomotion · 15%0.0
Hardware & Engineering · 15%75.0
Commercial Readiness & Deployment · 15%33.0
Ecosystem & Viability · 10%72.0
Each pillar is scored 0–100 from published specs, then weighted into the overall XHI. See the full methodology →
Notable
Bionic 'bone-muscle-skin' build with flexible spine, solid-state battery and 82 active DOF (22 per hand); XPeng targets mass production by end of 2026. A viral Nov-2025 demo prompted XPeng to publicly deny it contained a human.
Deployments & partners
- Baosteel (industrial inspection pilot)
Specifications
Height
173.0 cm
Weight
70.0 kg
Payload
—
Walking speed
—
Runtime
—
Battery
—
Total DoF
82
Hand DoF (per hand)
22
Dexterous hands
Yes
Actuation
electric
Onboard compute
3x XPeng Turing AI chips (~2,250 TOPS)
AI model
XPeng VLA 2.0 (Vision-Language-Action)
Indicative price
undisclosed
Company valuation
—
Sources · cross-checked, as of 2026-06
Data confidence: medium. Some figures for this robot rest on single or conflicting sources, or on manufacturer/aggregator material rather than independent reporting. Treat second-order specs as approximate. Fields marked “—” were genuinely undisclosed and left blank rather than estimated.