IRON
Humanoid from a Chinese electric carmaker, built on automotive compute and battery technology with mass production targeted for late 2026.
| Maker | XPeng Robotics |
|---|---|
| Country | China |
| First shown | 2024 |
| Status | Prototype |
| Actuation | Electric joints with 22 degrees of freedom in the hands |
| Power | Full solid-state battery pack |
| Sensors | Vehicle-derived camera perception with indoor automatic emergency braking |
| Autonomy | Three in-house Turing AI chips running a vision-language-action foundation model |
IRON is XPeng's bipedal humanoid, first shown at the company's 2024 technology day and heavily revised for the November 2025 version. The newer robot uses a full solid-state battery pack, three of XPeng's in-house Turing AI chips running a physical-world foundation model that handles vision, language and locomotion together, and hands with 22 degrees of freedom. XPeng has carried vehicle engineering across directly, including an indoor automatic emergency braking function that stops the robot before collisions. The company says mass production will begin in late 2026 and has begun work on a dedicated robot factory, so the machine remains a company demonstrator rather than a delivered product.
Of note
- First shown at XPeng's 2024 technology day and substantially revised in November 2025
- Uses a full solid-state battery pack and three in-house Turing AI chips
- XPeng has stated a late 2026 start for mass production
Maker: www.xpeng.com