XPeng
XPeng IRON
The eerily human next-gen humanoid — spine, bionic muscles and 82 DOF
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XPeng
EV maker turning car-scale manufacturing on the humanoid problem — the uncannily human IRON
China
Founded 2014
1 robot reviewed
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About XPeng
XPeng (小鹏汽车) is a Guangzhou-based electric-vehicle maker founded in 2014 that has become one of the most watched new entrants in humanoid robotics. Its robot, IRON, drew global attention at XPeng's November 2025 AI Day when its lifelike walk led many viewers to assume a human was inside the suit. The next-generation IRON pairs a humanoid spine, bionic muscles and flexible skin with 82 degrees of freedom (22 per hand), a pioneering all-solid-state battery, and a brain of three proprietary Turing AI chips delivering 2,250 TOPS running XPeng's Physical World Large Model. XPeng's bet is that building humanoids and building cars are the same mass-manufacturing problem: it targets mass production of IRON by the end of 2026, commercial deliveries in 2027, and a long-term ambition of a million units by 2030.
Key Strengths
- Next-gen IRON — spine, bionic muscles, flexible skin
- 82 DOF with 22 DOF per hand
- 3× Turing chips · 2,250 TOPS · Physical World Model
- Mass production targeted end of 2026
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