XPeng

A Guangzhou smart-EV maker building the IRON humanoid robot, a leading example of automakers entering humanoid robotics.

XPeng is a smart electric-vehicle company founded in Guangzhou in 2014; its chairman, He Xiaopeng, previously founded the browser company UCWeb and later served as a senior Alibaba executive. It listed on the New York Stock Exchange in 2020 and took a secondary primary listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange in 2021. XPeng is extending the vision systems, chips, and large models it built for autonomous driving into robotics: it first unveiled the humanoid robot IRON in 2024, then a new generation in November 2025 with 82 degrees of freedom across the body, three of XPeng's own Turing AI chips, and XPeng's own VLA model. It is targeting mass production by the end of 2026, initially for commercial roles such as store greeting and guided tours, and is also working with Baosteel to pilot industrial inspection. He Xiaopeng reportedly announced in June 2026 that he would personally lead the robotics business.

ExampleThe new-generation IRON stands about 1.78 meters tall with 22 degrees of freedom in each hand, and is planned to first work as a greeter in XPeng's own stores.

Also called

XPeng Motors, XPeng Robotics

Related

XPeng IRON · Automakers Entering Humanoid Robotics · Humanoid Robot · Vision-Language-Action Model · Autonomous-Driving Talent Moving into Embodied AI · Tesla

Sources

XPeng - Wikipedia
CnEVPost: XPeng unveils next-gen IRON humanoid robot

As of

2026-06