Overview
IRON is XPENG's bipedal humanoid robot, developed by the Chinese EV maker as an extension of its in-house "Physical AI" stack. The next-generation IRON, shown at XPENG AI Day on November 5, 2025, stands 178 cm tall and weighs about 70 kg, with a humanoid spine, bionic muscles, fully covered flexible skin, and a 3D curved display for a face. XPENG demonstrated it with a fluid, lifelike walking gait.
The robot has 82 degrees of freedom across its body and 22 degrees of freedom in each hand, using what XPENG calls the industry's smallest harmonic joints for life-size, dexterous hands. Its onboard "brain" is three of XPENG's own Turing AI chips, which the company rates at 3,000 TOPS, and it runs XPENG's physical-world large model (the same VLA lineage as its vehicles) for conversation, walking, and interaction. XPENG says it is the first humanoid robot to use an all-solid-state battery.
XPENG targets IRON at commercial service scenarios first, guided tours, shopping and sales assistance, and crowd or traffic diversion, and plans to deploy it in its own retail stores and factories. An SDK is available for outside developers, and XPENG has an industrial partnership with Baosteel for inspection use.
Mass production is targeted for the end of 2026, with CEO He Xiaopeng stating a goal of one million robots a year by 2030. XPENG has not officially disclosed a price.