Industrial Applications
The 2026 IRON manufacturing revision has 76 whole-body DOF and 21 per hand, with three Turing chips rated 2250 TOPS by XPENG. September 8 line commissioning and autonomous walk-off mark a manufacturing milestone. Latest October roadmap still targets late 2026 volume production, H1 2027 initial deliveries and H2 2027 Europe; current general purchase and customer-factory uptime are unverified.
This editorial assessment concerns industrial buyer readiness. It is not an independent performance test.
| EU regulatory fit | Unknown |
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| Cybersecurity fit | Unknown |
| Serviceability fit | Unknown |
| Supply chain fit | Unknown |
Manipulation and Perception
76 whole-body DOF, 21 per hand in Aug/Sep 2026 primary disclosures. Do not add 42 hands to 76 whole-body total or transfer 2025 count 82/22. No arm payload, reach or full actuator/passive-joint table inspected. IFA reporter gives approximate 1730 mm/65 kg andup-to 2 m/s, without exact shipping configuration/datasheet; those remain attributed notes rather than exact universal scalars.
Three Turing AI chips, 2250 TOPS effective compute per 2026 maker statement; precision unspecified. On-robot physical AI inference and tasks without teleoperation are manufacturer claims. Exact camera/tactile/force counts, network dependencies and safe autonomous envelope unverified.
SDK and Integration
Partnership/open-SDK announcements are not a current downloadable developer licence. Vehicle SDKs and unrelated community car repositories must not be treated as IRON control software.
| API type | SDK opening announced; public versioned robot API/release not verified |
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| Languages | Needs verification |
| ROS support | No exact model ROS distribution or maintained integration verified |
| Simulation | No public exact robot URDF/MJCF/USD/controller package or simulator entitlement inspected |
| Offline operation | On-device inference claimed; all-feature offline operation and remote-service dependencies unverified |
| Teleoperation | Latest maker claims tasks without remote operation; not evidence every public demo or recovery is autonomous |
| Software updates | Robot-specific update approval, signing, rollback and support lifetime unknown |
| Documentation | Open documentation |
| Integration constraints | Partnership/open-SDK announcements are not a current downloadable developer licence. Vehicle SDKs and unrelated community car repositories must not be treated as IRON control software. |
Safety Notes
No inspected exact-model signed conformity declaration, independent safety dossier, protective-stop design or certified collaborative operating envelope. Soft skin, solid-state marketing and robotics laws are not conformity evidence.
Commercial Readiness
| Pricing | No official robot list price or exact export quotation verified; analyst/marketplace estimates are not manufacturer prices. |
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| Price range | Quote-based or unverified |
| Lead time | Needs verification |
| Availability regions | China: internal evaluation and planned rollout, Overseas: planned, subject to exact model/commercial contract |
| Spare parts | No public robot-specific spares location, price list or replacement schedule verified. |
| Warranty | No exact humanoid warranty, parts/battery exclusions, return freight or service response terms verified. Vehicle warranty pages are not robot terms. |
| Configuration and pricing basis | No verified official exact-configuration price |
| Distributors and service | No manufacturer-authorised exact-model robot dealer/integrator and service SLA verified. |
Vehicle dealer contacts and demonstration pages do not establish humanoid sale/support entitlement.
Specifications
| Height | Unknown |
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| Weight | Unknown |
| Payload | Unknown |
| Runtime | Unknown |
| Battery and runtime conditions | Current family demonstration page retains solid-state-battery claims; exact production pack, capacity, voltage, charging window, runtime andbattery certificate unverified. Reported self-charging feature lacks inspected acceptance specification. |
| Degrees of freedom | 76 |
| Max speed | Unknown |
| Revision scope | 2026 production 76 total DOF/21 per hand; 2025 demo 82/22 is separate. Source ↗ |
| Latest roadmap | October 2026 primary: late 2026 volume production, H1 2027 delivery, H2 2027 Europe, all targets. Source ↗ |
| Onboard compute | 3 Turing AI chips/2250 TOPS effective per 2026 maker; not measured task throughput. Source ↗ |
| Manufacturing versus service | Sep 8 assembly walk-off and>80%core-line automation claimed; initial stores/campuses and 2027 market deliveries remain roadmap. Source ↗ |
| Reported approximate figures | IFA reporter:~1730 mm/~65 kg/up to 2 m/s. Exact shipping SKU andtest conditions unknown; not adopted as universal scalars. Source ↗ |
Sources and Further Reading
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Current IRON technology demonstrations ↗
XPENG · Accessed Nov 2, 2026
Old /nl/model/ai-robot returns 404; current technology page rendered.22-DOF hands, three Turing chips, solid-state battery, VLT/VLA/VLM, spine/skin/shoulder and walking/coffee/dance/Tai Chi demos. Explicit technical-demonstration/lab-reference disclaimer. Does not supply exact price, payload, runtime or versioned SDK; 22-hand figure differs from 2026 production 21.
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October 2026 IRON delivery and European roadmap ↗
XPENG · Published Oct 15, 2026 · Accessed Nov 2, 2026
Posted Oct 15, Paris Oct 13 dateline: late 2026 mass-production target, H1 2027 initial delivery, H2 2027 Europe planned. EU R&D/local production/homologation discussion primarily concerns vehicles; not evidence robot parts, repair or conformity service already exists.
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Chinese IRON manufacturing announcement ↗
XPENG · Published Sep 9, 2026 · Accessed Nov 2, 2026
Sep 9 Chinese primary confirms 76 whole-body/21 hand DOF and 2250 TOPS; late 2026 volume-production target and 2027 China/overseas delivery. Manufacturer claims, not independent output or availability validation.
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IRON 2026 production-line commissioning ↗
XPENG · Published Sep 8, 2026 · Accessed Nov 2, 2026
Sep 8 manufacturer: production line operating, core processes>80%automated; robot completed assembly and walked off line.76 whole-body DOF, 21 per hand, three Turing chips 2250 TOPS. Volume production still targetedyearend 2026, first own stores/campuses, market launch/delivery 2027. A line opening is not independently proven series volumes or customer factory deployment.
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Reporter interviews XPENG at IFA 2026 ↗
Live Science · Published Sep 8, 2026 · Accessed Nov 2, 2026
Reporter Keumars Afifi-Sabet at IFA quotes approximate 1730 mm/65 kg and up-to 2 m/s, 76 DOF/21 hand production revision versus 82/22 prototype. Exact configuration/datasheet and test conditions not supplied. Stronger mass-production headline does not override manufacturer future volume-production target.
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Robotics financing agreements and valuation ↗
XPENG · Published Aug 25, 2026 · Accessed Nov 2, 2026
Posted Aug 25, dateline Aug 24: maker announces share-purchase agreements exceeding USD 900 m at>USD 6.3 bn postmoney; IDG leads, Gaorong, Tencent, Alibaba named. Upon closing retained group control/consolidation. This is signed/staged financing, not proof every subscription completed.76/21 and 2250 TOPS platform described.
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Next-Gen IRON 2025 announcement ↗
XPENG · Published Nov 5, 2025 · Accessed Nov 2, 2026
Official Nov 5 release: 82 whole-body DOF, 22 per hand, humanoid spine, bionic lattice/skin, solid-state battery, three Turing chips and VLT/VLA/VLM. English copy 3000 TOPS conflicts with Chinese 2250; do not silently resolve. SDK opening and Baosteel inspection are announced plans, not inspected delivered developer licence or production fleet.