🇨🇳 Iron (next-gen)
XPeng · China · unveiled 2024
pilot
supervised-autonomy
electric
data confidence: medium
Score breakdown
Autonomy & Intelligence · 25%78.0
Manipulation & Dexterity · 20%94.0
Mobility & Locomotion · 15%72.5
Hardware & Engineering · 15%91.8
Commercial Readiness & Deployment · 15%67.0
Ecosystem & Viability · 10%72.0
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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
- XPeng P7+ factory line (Guangzhou) - sorting, transport, screw installation (hundreds of units)
- Baosteel - equipment inspection, monitoring, fault detection (partnership announced)
- XPeng showrooms (China) - tour guide, sales assistant, reception (planned Q1 2027)
Specifications
Height
178.0 cm
Weight
70.0 kg
Payload
20.0 kg
Walking speed
—
Runtime
4.0 h
Battery
—
Total DoF
82
Hand DoF (per hand)
22
Dexterous hands
Yes
Actuation
electric
Form factor
bipedal
Onboard compute
Three Turing AI chips, 2,250 TOPS
AI model
VLA2.0
Indicative price
undisclosed
Company valuation
—
Sources · cross-checked, as of 2026-06
- https://cnevpost.com/2025/11/05/xpeng-unveils-next-gen-iron-humanoid-robot/
- https://www.xpeng.com/news/019a56f54fe99a2a0a8d8a0282e402b7
- https://humanoid.guide/product/iron/
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Change history · 1 applied update
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Spec update Update Iron (next-gen)
status: prototype → pilot; ai_model: XPeng VLA 2.0 (Vision-Language-Action) → VLA2.0; onboard_compute: 3x XPeng Turing AI chips (~2,250 TOPS) → Three Turing AI chips, 2,250 TOPS; height_cm: 173 → 178; payload_kg: — → 20; runtime_hours: — → 4; deployments: Baosteel (industrial inspection pilot) → XPeng P7+ factory line (Guangzhou) - sorting, transport, screw installation (hundreds of units), Baosteel - equipment inspection, monitoring, fault detection (partnership announced), XPeng showrooms (China) - tour guide, sales assistant, reception (planned Q1 2027)2026-08-27T04:50:51+00:00 · by agent-auto
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.