XPeng · retail humanoid
IRON
next generation
A very lifelike humanoid with 22-DOF hands, a curved face display and three in-house Turing chips (2,250 TOPS). Weight and 82 DOF come from press reports, not an official sheet.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- 65 kgHeavier than 55%
- Payload
- —Not published
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
Not for sale: Not yet for sale; XPeng's site shows IRON only as technology (mass production targeted end of 2026, sales 2027).
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Why it matters
Uses an all-solid-state battery and a humanlike 'spine', 'muscles' and soft flexible skin.
Real-world use
Automated production line started in Guangzhou in 2026; first units go to XPeng stores and campuses, with Baosteel factory trials; sales planned for 2027.
Maker
XPengCompany · founded 2014 · Guangzhou, ChinaPublic company (NYSE: XPEV; HKEX: 9868). Robotics unit Dogotix: about $900 million committed at about $6.3 billion post-money (Aug 2026), IDG lead…
How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
IRON (next generation) is heavier than 55% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
IRON (next generation) has more joints than 98% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, speed, payload, battery, price.
What it has been shown doing
We checked public videos and press for IRON (next generation) and found no clear demo of the skills we track yet.
Public attention
How much public attention IRON (next generation) gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 7 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Walks on legs · 82 joints
- Chip
- Turing AI chip (XPeng)Three in-house Turing chips, up to 2,250 TOPS in total.
- AI model
- XPeng VLA 2.0 (XPeng)
- Actuators & motors
- Production spec: 76 DoF in the body plus 21 per hand (2026); launch spec quoted 22-DoF hands. Bionic spine and muscle system; passive toe joints for a lifelike gait.
- Hands
- 21-22 DoF per hand.
- Compute
- Three in-house Turing AI chips, up to 2,250 TOPS.
- Battery & power
- Announced as all-solid-state; September 2026 reports say production units will use semi-solid pouch cells (unconfirmed by XPeng).
- Materials & build
- Fully enclosed flexible lattice structure acting as skin and safety layer; 3D curved display in the head.
- AI & software
- XPeng physical-world foundation model combining VLT, VLA and VLM; second-generation VLA; runs on board without teleoperation (company claim); SDK for developers.
- Other details
- Automated production line with over 80% of core processes automated (company).
Lineage
Every XPeng humanoid in order.
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Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- Not for saleNot yet for sale; XPeng's site shows IRON only as technology (mass production targeted end of 2026, sales 2027).
- Built
- Production line commissioned 8 Sep 2026; mass production targeted by end-2026, long-term goal 1,000+ per month (company).
- Sold or delivered
- None to paying customers yet (Electrek, Sept 2026); sales planned 2027.
- Where it is sold or used
- China first (XPeng stores and campuses), overseas from 2027.
- Customers and pilots
- Baosteel (industrial inspection trials); planned museum, showroom and mall deployments.
News
The latest 7, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- XPeng gives a European timetable for IRON: second half of 2027
At a Paris event before the motor show, XPeng's CEO showed a plan with IRON mass production in late 2026, first deliveries in early 2027 and a European rollout in the second half of 2027; countries and price were not given.
EV (eletric-vehicles.com) - XPeng opens IRON production line
Over 80% of core processes automated; mass production by end-2026 and sales in 2027.
CnEVPost - Report: IRON switches to semi-solid batteries
XPeng has not confirmed; all-solid-state cells reportedly not ready.
CnEVPost - XPeng carves out robotics unit Dogotix
About $900 million committed at about $6.3 billion post-money; IDG leads, Tencent and Alibaba join.
CnEVPost - Some viewers suspect a human inside IRON
IRON's lifelike AI Day walk prompted claims of a person in a suit; Electrek reports engineers cut open a leg on stage to disprove it.
CnEVPost - XPeng unveils next-gen IRON
New body with bionic muscles, flexible skin, 22-DoF hands and 2,250 TOPS of compute.
CnEVPost - XPeng's new IRON to use an all-solid-state battery
At XPeng AI Day XPeng presented the highly human-proportioned new IRON and said it uses an all-solid-state battery.
note (Kazumichi Moriyama)
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. How we choose
| Measure |  IRON (next generation)XPeng |  GreenSberSame jobs: retail, industrial · Both walk · Both in development |  XMAN-F1Keenon RoboticsSame jobs: retail, social · Both walk · Both in development |  Songxing (松行)Siasun (新松)Same jobs: industrial, retail · Both walk · Both in development |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2025-11-05 | 2025-11 | 2025-07-26 | 2026-01 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | — | 180 cm | — | 176 cm |
| Weight | 65 kg | 75 kg | — | — |
| Joints | 82 | 41 | — | 42 |
| Speed | — | — | — | — |
| Payload | — | — | — | — |
| Battery | — | — | — | — |
| Price | — | — | — | — |
Sources
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