Dongfeng Motor with Huazhong University of Science and Technology · industrial humanoid
Xiao Dong
小东
Dongfeng's humanoid, with Dongfeng designing the 'brain' on its Tianyuan T500 controller (700+ TOPS, 8B-class on-device multimodal model) and HUST developing the motion 'cerebellum'. First announced for dealership reception, it is now aimed at sorting, handling and inspection in final assembly; its dexterous hands are still being trained.
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- Height
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- Weight
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- Payload
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- Speed
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- Battery
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Why it matters
A prototype humanoid from Dongfeng Motor (R&D Institute) with Huazhong University of Science and Technology.
Real-world use
Dongfeng plans factory trial production in final assembly from late 2026 and a few hundred units in 2027 (per Daily Economic News, Sep 2026).
Timeline
- First shown
- 2025-11-25
- Released
- Not yet
Public attention
How much public attention Xiao Dong (小东) gets, from open data.
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- No recent press stories listed yet
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What’s inside
No component details published yet.
- Hands
- dexterous
- Movement
- Movement not published
From the maker
Xiao Dong (小东) is the only humanoid from Dongfeng Motor (R&D Institute) with Huazhong University of Science and Technology in the atlas.
Made, sold and where
No production or sales figures published yet.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- No official buying page found
Sources
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