IRON

IRON is XPeng's humanoid program. The first IRON prototype was unveiled in November 2024, but the model that defines today's product is the next-gen IRON shown at XPeng AI Day on November 5, 2025 — a 178 cm, 70 kg humanoid with a human-like spine, 82 total DoF including 22-DoF harmonic-joint hands, a 3D curved display on the head, an embedded mic array, and what XPeng claims is the industry's first all-solid-state battery in a humanoid (cnevpost.com).

The catwalk reveal at AI Day was so smooth that Chinese social media spent a day insisting a person was hidden inside the suit; CEO He Xiaopeng posted a follow-up video the next morning unzipping the robot's back to show the lattice "muscles" and harmonic hand joints. Compute runs on three proprietary Turing chips at a combined 3,000 TOPS, paired with XPeng's VLT + VLA 2.0 + VLM stack — three interlocking foundation models meant to handle conversation, walking and manipulation in one pass (humanoidsdaily.com).

XPeng targets mass production of IRON by the end of 2026 and 1 million units by 2030. The first commercial role mix is positioned as guided tours, shopping floors and crowd-flow management; CEO He Xiaopeng says the eventual retail price should be "very similar to car prices" so the platform can reach households over five years.