{
  "slug": "xpeng-iron",
  "name": "Iron",
  "manufacturer": {
    "name": "XPeng",
    "country": "CN",
    "url": "https://www.xpeng.com"
  },
  "category": "full-size",
  "announced": {
    "date": "2024-11-06",
    "source": {
      "url": "https://cnevpost.com/2024/11/06/xpeng-2024-ai-day/",
      "quote": "Xpeng unveiled Iron, a humanoid robot that stands 178 cm tall and weighs 70 kg, close to a real person.",
      "accessed": "2026-09-20"
    }
  },
  "specs": {
    "height_cm": {
      "value": 178,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://cnevpost.com/2024/11/06/xpeng-2024-ai-day/",
        "quote": "stands 178 cm tall",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "weight_kg": {
      "value": 70,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://cnevpost.com/2024/11/06/xpeng-2024-ai-day/",
        "quote": "weighs 70 kg",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "dof": {
      "value": 60,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://cnevpost.com/2024/11/06/xpeng-2024-ai-day/",
        "quote": "has over 60 joints",
        "accessed": "2026-09-27",
        "media_type": "article",
        "publisher_type": "independent",
        "review": {
          "status": "insufficient",
          "method": "text",
          "checked": "2026-09-27",
          "reason": "The reviewed source did not establish both the exact recorded value and the concrete robot variant for this specification."
        }
      }
    },
    "hand_dof": {
      "value": 22,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://cnevpost.com/2025/11/05/xpeng-unveils-next-gen-iron-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "a hand with 22 degrees of freedom",
        "accessed": "2026-09-27",
        "media_type": "article",
        "publisher_type": "independent",
        "review": {
          "status": "insufficient",
          "method": "text",
          "checked": "2026-09-27",
          "reason": "The reviewed source did not establish both the exact recorded value and the concrete robot variant for this specification."
        }
      }
    },
    "compute": {
      "value": "3x XPeng Turing AI chips, 2,250 TOPS combined",
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://cnevpost.com/2025/11/05/xpeng-unveils-next-gen-iron-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "three in-house developed Turing AI chips delivering 2,250 TOPS of computing power",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    }
  },
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  "delivery": {
    "status": "demonstrated",
    "timeline": [
      {
        "date": "2024-11-06",
        "event": "announced",
        "detail": "XPeng unveiled its first humanoid robot, Iron, at its 2024 AI Day, saying it would work its way into XPeng's own factories.",
        "quantity_min": null,
        "quantity_max": null,
        "source": {
          "url": "https://cnevpost.com/2024/11/06/xpeng-2024-ai-day/",
          "quote": "Xpeng unveiled Iron, a humanoid robot that stands 178 cm tall and weighs 70 kg, close to a real person.",
          "accessed": "2026-09-20"
        },
        "sector": "manufacturing"
      },
      {
        "date": "2025-11-05",
        "event": "first-demo",
        "detail": "XPeng showed a next-generation Iron walking on stage at 2025 AI Day; the walk looked so human-like that online viewers accused the company of hiding a person inside, prompting CEO He Xiaopeng to cut open the robot's leg on stage to show the wiring.",
        "quantity_min": null,
        "quantity_max": null,
        "source": {
          "url": "https://cnevpost.com/2025/11/06/xpengs-iron-humanoid-robot-looks-so-real/",
          "quote": "Xpeng's Iron humanoid robot looks so real that some suspect it hides a human inside",
          "accessed": "2026-09-20"
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "promises": [
    {
      "id": "xpeng-iron-mass-production-2026",
      "claim": "Iron mass production begins",
      "target": "2026",
      "made_on": "2026-09-08",
      "quote": "mass production will begin by year-end",
      "source_url": "https://cnevpost.com/2026/09/08/xpeng-opens-iron-humanoid-robot-production-line/",
      "source_name": "CnEVPost",
      "accessed": "2026-09-27",
      "status": "open"
    },
    {
      "id": "xpeng-iron-launch-deliveries-2027",
      "claim": "Iron officially launched with deliveries in China and overseas",
      "target": "2027",
      "made_on": "2026-09-08",
      "quote": "officially launch Iron and begin deliveries in China and overseas markets in 2027",
      "source_url": "https://cnevpost.com/2026/09/08/xpeng-opens-iron-humanoid-robot-production-line/",
      "source_name": "CnEVPost",
      "accessed": "2026-09-27",
      "status": "open"
    }
  ],
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "photo",
      "file": "media/xpeng-iron/xpeng-iron-auto-guangzhou-2025.jpg",
      "caption": "XPeng Iron on display at Auto Guangzhou 2025.",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:XPeng_Iron_at_Auto_Guangzhou_2025_20251123.jpg",
        "accessed": "2026-09-22"
      },
      "license": {
        "name": "other",
        "terms_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/",
        "note": "CC BY-SA 4.0 by photographer Tim Wu (TimWu007), via Wikimedia Commons; not one of the fixed manufacturer/patent license names, recorded as \"other\" with the CC BY-SA deed linked. Unlike the CC0 photos elsewhere in this dataset, CC BY-SA requires attribution, carried in `credit` below."
      },
      "credit": "Photo: Tim Wu (TimWu007), CC BY-SA 4.0"
    }
  ],
  "notes": [
    "Specs recorded here (178 cm / 70 kg / 60+ joints) are for the original Iron unveiled November 2024. The next-generation Iron shown at 2025 AI Day (Nov 5, 2025) has different hand dexterity: CnEVPost's 2025 coverage states 'a hand with 22 degrees of freedom', while a separate report cited elsewhere put per-hand DOF at 21 and total body DOF at 76 for the 2025 version. Updated full-body height/weight for the 2025 generation were not confirmed by a primary or press source during this session, so the 2024 figures are kept as the current record and the hand-DOF conflict is flagged rather than resolved.",
    "No shipped or independently verified customer deployment was found; XPeng has stated mass production is targeted for end of 2026 with deliveries/showroom deployment planned for 2027, which is a plan, not a shipped or demonstrated-in-production status.",
    "hand_dof (22) and compute (3x Turing chips, 2,250 TOPS) added 2026-09-20 from CnEVPost's 2025-11-05 coverage of the next-generation Iron shown at 2025 AI Day, i.e. a newer generation than the 2024 height/weight/dof figures kept above; per the discrepancy note already on file, a separate report elsewhere put per-hand DOF at 21 (vs. CnEVPost's 22) and total body DOF at 76 for this same 2025 generation -- that conflict is unresolved and CnEVPost's figure is used as the traceable press source. No fixed capability id in data/capabilities.json cleanly matches the 2025 catwalk/runway demonstration (no 'run' aerial-phase gait shown, no dexterous-hand task performed on stage), so no capabilities entry was added for this build.",
    "locomotion left out (2026-09-21): cnevpost's launch coverage and Humanoids Daily's Shenzhen catwalk-debut article were checked; Humanoids Daily uses \"bipedal robots\" only in a general aside about fascia-layer damping, not as a direct statement about Iron itself, and no other fetched source gave a literal sentence naming Iron's own locomotion. Left out rather than inferred from the catwalk demo footage or the humanoid category.",
    "Battery update (2026-10-29): CnEVPost (https://cnevpost.com/2026/10/28/solid-state-batteries-xpeng-iron-small-batch-production/, accessed 2026-10-29) reports XPeng VP Gu Jie said solid-state batteries for Iron 'had begun rolling off the production line in small batches', with the robot itself still 'ahead of SOP'. Conflicting sources kept side by side: at the November 2025 unveiling XPeng said Iron would use all-solid-state batteries; Jipian Lab (as cited by CnEVPost) reported on 3 September 2026 that the production version would use solid-liquid hybrid (semi-solid-state) batteries. CnEVPost notes the new disclosure 'uses the term \"solid-state battery\" without specifying' which technology, with no energy density or volume figures. No battery spec recorded because the type is unresolved."
  ],
  "updated": "2026-10-29",
  "simulation": {
    "review": {
      "status": "not_confirmed",
      "checked": "2026-09-27",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.xpeng.com"
      ],
      "reason": "Targeted searches found no confirmed model for this record; does not mean unavailable."
    },
    "artifacts": []
  },
  "actuator_architecture": {
    "review": {
      "status": "not_confirmed",
      "checked": "2026-09-27",
      "urls": [
        "https://www.xpeng.com"
      ],
      "reason": "Targeted actuator searches did not confirm an exact-variant architecture claim for this record; this does not mean none exists."
    },
    "groups": []
  },
  "url": "https://humanoidrecord.com/robots/xpeng-iron/",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "humanoidrecord.com",
  "generated_at": "2026-11-03T10:59:20.283Z"
}