Chinese company Xpeng disassembles its new humanoid robot live on air to prove that it is not human inside.

 

Iron robot from Xpeng

Chinese company Xpeng disassembles its new humanoid robot live on air to prove that it is not human inside.

Chinese electric vehicle company Xpeng has stunned social media with the launch of its new humanoid robot, "Iron".
The humanoid robot looked so lifelike that X-Peng eventually had to unwrap the robot's outer layers right on stage to prove that it was not just a human wearing a robot suit, according to several reports.

The robot's walk on stage looked like that of a real person rather than a robot, giving the audience the impression that it might be a person wearing a robot suit, according to several reports.
To refute this idea, Xpeng founder He Xiaoping asked one of his assistants to dismantle and remove the outer layers of the robot to reveal its internal components.

When those layers were removed, the internal metallic components of the Iron robot were revealed, which amazed the attendees and social media users after a video of the demonstration went viral.
Xpeng's new Iron robot, an upgraded version of the model launched last year, operates with the Vision-Language-Action (VLA) 2.0 AI model, which relies primarily on visual data for training and decision-making.

The AI ​​model allows the robot to interpret its environment directly instead of translating images into a language first, which improves efficiency and reduces information loss.
Xpeng described the Iron robot as "born from the inside out," equipped with a humanoid spine, bionic muscles, and fully flexible skin.

With 82 degrees of freedom throughout its body, the Iron robot can dance, model, and perform other complex human movements.
The robot also uses what it calls "X-Peng," the industry's smallest adaptive joint, to create life-size, movable hands.