Summary

IRON is XPeng's next-generation humanoid for physical-AI development and planned commercial service, with 82 body DoF, 22-DoF hands and three Turing AI chips.

Identity

Status

Commercial

Performance

DOF

82 body, 22/hand

BATTERY

all-solid-state

Systems

COMPUTE

3x Turing AI chips, 3000 TOPS

Other

INTERACTION

curved display face, soft skin with touch sensors

Video

Capabilities

CLAIMED (date not recorded) — Robotic inspection: XPENG identifies complex industrial inspection with Baosteel as an explicit application pathway for its next-generation IRON humanoid.

Degrees of freedom — ranked across 89 Humanoid platforms · this robot ranks #2

Universal Humanoid Robot

44 DoF

Qinglong

43 DoF

Comparable systems — same status tier

Context & Benchmark

Comparable systems: Pudu D9 (Pudu Robotics), 4NE1 (Neura Robotics), Kepler K2 (Kepler Robotics), Atlas (Boston Dynamics), Calvin-40 (Wandercraft), Optimus (Tesla). Related systems: AEON (Hexagon), HMND 01 Alpha Bipedal (Humanoid), Phoenix (Sanctuary AI), Haribit (Haribit), MagicBot Z1 (MagicLab), AGIBOT A2 (AgiBot).

Timeline

PRODUCTION MILESTONE (05 Nov 2025) — 'Xpeng targets mass production of Iron humanoid robot by 2026': at 2025 XPENG AI Day ('Emergence'), unveiled XPENG VLA 2.0, Robotaxi, Next-Gen IRON, and flying car systems from ARIDGE; VLA 2.0 also powers 'Narrow Road NGP' for intelligent driving in complex environments.

Research

MODEL (01 Jun 2026) — 'Inside Fe0: What Cross-Embodiment Data Teaches an Embodied Foundation Model': analyzes what large cross-embodiment data teaches an embodied foundation model under minimal in-domain humanoid anchors; evaluates transfer from heterogeneous robot/human video data onto XPENG IRON-R01; project page live, no public code/weights verified in this pass.

Resources

Image: IRON exposed humanoid structure (official XPENG front view, exterior removed to expose body structure) + video. Documents: 'XPENG IRON product reference' (OFFICIAL spec sheet, humanoid structure/hands/conversation system/autonomous walking); 'XPENG 2025 ESG report - IRON technical reference' (OFFICIAL technical report PDF p.60, 82 DoF, 22-DoF hands, biomimetic structure, AI architecture, solid-state battery, initial deployment plan).

Deployments

COMMERCIAL ROLLOUT (03 Jun 2026) — XPeng: plans to put IRON to work as an in-store shopping guide at offline retail outlets from Q1 2027, following mass-production integration (deployment roadmap, not live commercial deployment). Environment: China. Product/scope: IRON retail-guide deployment.

Operations

PRODUCTION STATUS / CAPACITY EXPANSION (25 Feb 2026): XPeng announced a planned full-chain humanoid production base in Guangzhou covering development validation, pilot production, scaled manufacturing (project plan, not an opened facility). Facility: XPeng humanoid robot full-chain mass-production base. Geography: China.