Iron
Built on XPENG's automotive AI and Turing chip.
hopefully coming soon
Illustrative only. Real financing terms depend on unit, buyer profile, and maker's approved lender network.
Built on XPENG's automotive AI and Turing chip.
Iron applies XPENG's automotive perception, its in-house Turing compute, and its EV manufacturing supply chain to a full-size humanoid. The next-generation Iron shown at XPENG AI Day in November 2025 walked so fluidly that XPENG cut the robot open on stage to prove no human was inside; per XPENG's August 2026 figures it carries 76 degrees of freedom across the body plus 21 in each hand, three in-house Turing AI chips (~2,250 TOPS) that run its Physical AI foundation model on-device, and a 'fully enclosed flexible lattice structure' synthetic skin. On September 7, 2026 XPENG launched mass production on an automotive-grade line — with over 80% automation and roughly 85% supply-chain overlap with its EV business — in what it calls a world first: production units that assemble and then walk off the line under their own power, without teleoperation. The production Iron adds bilingual multi-modal dialogue with memory for a dozen faces, full-process obstacle avoidance, and autonomous charging-dock docking. Units are deploying first across XPENG's own showrooms and campuses for greeting and patrol work, with external customer deliveries slated for 2027. XPENG has not announced a price.
- ◆Mass production launched Sept 2026 — units walk off the line autonomously (world first)
- ◆Automotive-grade line: 80%+ automation, ~85% supply-chain overlap with XPENG EVs
- ◆76 DoF across the body + 21 per hand; 3× Turing chips (~2,250 TOPS) on-device
- ◆Deploying in XPENG showrooms/campuses now; external deliveries 2027
- ◆Robotics unit raised $900M at a $6.3B valuation (Aug 2026)
XPENG applies its automotive perception, chip, and manufacturing capabilities to Iron, a full-size humanoid unveiled for retail, showroom, and eventual home deployment. In August 2026 its robotics business raised more than $900 million at a post-money valuation above $6.3 billion — the largest single-round private raise in China's embodied-AI industry to date — led by IDG Capital, with Gaorong Ventures and strategic backing from Tencent and Alibaba; XPENG is spinning the unit into a standalone subsidiary while retaining roughly 82% ownership.
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