Xpeng Iron
Iron is Xpeng's full-size humanoid, first shown in November 2024 working in its Guangzhou car plant. The 2025 version adds 82 degrees of freedom, a bionic spine, solid-state battery and Xpeng's own Turing chips, with mass production planned for late 2026.
We have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. It is not on sale, so there is nothing to recommend.
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- Prototype
- Category
- general purpose
- First revealed
- 6 November 2024
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- 178 cm
- Weight
- 70 kg
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- 82 (+22 per hand)
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric with a flexible spine and artificial muscle skin
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- unknown
Where it stands
Second-generation Iron shown November 2025; Xpeng targets mass production by end of 2026 for guide, reception and factory roles.
What stands out
- 82 DOF with 22-DOF hands
- Xpeng Turing chips, about 2,250 TOPS
- Mass production targeted for end of 2026
Autonomy, observed
Catwalk gait at Tech Day 2025; earlier Iron shown screwing parts on the Guangzhou P7+ line in 2024. Xpeng cut open the robot's leg on 6 November 2025 to counter claims that a person was inside.
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: 22-DOF hands (2025 version)
- Compute: three Xpeng Turing chips, about 2,250 TOPS
- AI stack: Xpeng VLA and VLT models
Price and volume
No public price.
Index position
In the Humanoid Index, which ranks on shipped reality rather than value for money, Xpeng Iron sits at #74 of 107 with 30 points: deployment 20/50, autonomy 10/30, availability 0/20. See that method.
Where Xpeng Iron works.
| Customer | Site | Sector | Task | Since | Status | Units | Autonomy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| XPeng (internal) | XPeng Guangzhou factory, China | automotive | Screwing and light assembly tasks on the P7 plus production line | Nov 2024 | pilot | n/d | mixed |
Milestones.
XPeng shows a new IRON with a synthetic skin and a catwalk gait
The new IRON walks so naturally at XPeng's AI Day that viewers accuse the company of putting a human in a suit; XPeng cuts open a leg on video to prove it is a robot. XPeng targets mass production by the end of 2026.
XPeng unveils the IRON humanoid
Electric carmaker XPeng shows IRON, a 178 cm, 70 kg humanoid using its in house Turing AI chip, and says it is already working in its Guangzhou factory on the P7 plus production line. It is the first Chinese carmaker to build its own humanoid.
How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model
Of 182 humanoids on record, 178 say what moves the joints and 43 say what computer is inside. The further a layer sits from the metal, the less the maker tells you about it.
How long does a humanoid robot actually run
22 of 182 humanoids on record quote a runtime. The claims run from 1 to 8 hours with a median of 4, and of the 44 machines you can order, 4 say anything at all.
Startups, automakers, universities: who builds humanoids
108 makers, nine kinds. Startups hold 37 of the 44 humanoids you can order. Automakers, universities, big tech, conglomerates and NASA hold 45 robots between them and sell none of them.
Humanoid robot stocks: which of the 108 makers are actually listed
Twenty of the 108 makers in our record have a ticker. Four of them will sell you a humanoid. The rest build cars, chips, servers and washing machines, and the pure plays are all private.
What humanoid robots can actually do in 2026
Of 182 humanoid robots on record, 117 have a human in the loop, 33 have ever worked at a customer site and none has a verified fleet count. Here is what that leaves.
Where humanoids actually work: 52 deployments, counted
We track 52 humanoid deployments at named sites. Eighteen are in car plants, exactly half are live, and six say how many robots turned up. Those six add up to 41 machines.
Other robots by Xpeng.
Sources
- 01Xpeng newsroomXpeng
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