IRON
XPeng's very humanlike humanoid, with a spine, soft skin and 21-DOF hands. The first units came off a production line in September 2026. Deployments start in XPeng's own stores and campuses, with sales in China and abroad promised for 2027. There is no price, and nobody outside XPeng has one.
- Price
- Not announced
- Status
- Internal onlyPromise IRON (next-gen). Production line started Sept 2026; mass production targeted end-2026, market launch 2027
- Height
- 1.78 m
- Weight
- 70 kg
- Payload
- —
- Runtime
- —
- Top speed
- —
- Degrees of freedom
- 76
- Hand DoF
- 21 per hand
- Compute
- 3x XPeng Turing AI chips (2,250 TOPS)
- Made in
- China
A dash means the maker has not published it. Values with a label are claims, not measurements.
Trust and legalWhat these mean
Does a remote human drive it?
Not disclosed
Runs XPeng's VLA 2.0 model per the company. No independent data on autonomy in real deployments.
US FCC
Barred (new models)
No FCC filing found before 2026-07-28. As a new foreign-made humanoid it cannot get US authorization unless the Department of War grants Conditional Approval.
Status history2 dated events
- Internal only
Production lines commissioned and IRON walks off the line. Mass production targeted by end-2026, deliveries in 2027. XPENG IRON Humanoid Robot Now Walks Off the Production Line
- Announced
Next-gen IRON unveiled at XPeng AI Day (then quoted as 82 DOF with 22-DOF hands). XPeng cut one open on stage to prove it was not a person in a suit. Xpeng unveils next-gen Iron humanoid robot at 2025 AI Day (CnEVPost)
PromisesLedger
- XPeng1 open
Large-scale mass production of the new IRON humanoid by the end of 2026, before a global rollout in 2027
OpenOn 2026-09-07 XPeng said the first IRON walked off its new production line. It repeated the year-end mass-production target, with first deployments in its own stores and campuses and customer deliveries in 2027. Source
CoverageAll news
- Shipped
The first FCC robot approvals are out. What they mean for foreign-made home robots
ANSCER's warehouse robots cleared the new FCC process; your existing robot is fine, but new foreign models face a slower road.
- Promise
XPeng opens its IRON humanoid production line: what the release does and doesn't say
The line is running and the first robot walked off it; capacity, price and a home use case are still missing.
Sources for specs and status
- XPENG VLA 2.0, Robotaxi, Next-Gen IRON and Flying Car5 Nov 2025
- XPeng starts IRON humanoid robot production (Electrek)7 Sep 2026
Last updated 27 Sep 2026. Spotted an error? Send a correction.