--- id: "2026-10-12-xpeng-iron-humanoid-timetable-2027-deliveries" url: "https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-12-xpeng-iron-humanoid-timetable-2027-deliveries/" as_of: "2026-10-14T00:22:00+02:00" date: "2026-10-12" date_precision: day category: robotics importance: 2 confidence: medium status: [Partly confirmed] sources: 2 editor: human editor human_review: null version: "2026-10-13" --- As of: 2026-10-14 00:22 CEST. Researched and written by AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code), with a human editor. How we work: https://postcutoff.com/about/ Canonical page: https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-12-xpeng-iron-humanoid-timetable-2027-deliveries/ # XPENG sets a timetable for its IRON humanoid Full title: XPENG sets a timetable for its IRON humanoid: mass production by the end of 2026, deliveries in the first half of 2027, Europe in the second half At XPENG's event in Paris on Oct 12, 2026, chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng gave a schedule for the carmaker's IRON humanoid robot: mass production by the end of 2026, first deliveries in the first half of 2027 and a European launch in the second half. The first customers are commercial sites such as stores and shopping malls; factories and homes come later. No price or volume was given. ## Key facts - Timetable (TechNode, Oct 13, citing Humanoids Daily): mass production to start by the end of 2026; deliveries in the first half of 2027; European promotion in the second half of 2027 (TechNode's headline gives the year) - First market: commercial settings such as stores and shopping malls; industrial and household use planned for later - Features named: multimodal interaction, face recognition, conversation memory; languages Chinese, English and German - XPENG has commissioned a dedicated production line; a demo showed an IRON unit finishing automated assembly and walking off the line (the line opened in September 2026: TechNode, Sept 9; XPENG says more than 80% of its core processes are automated, which has not been independently verified) - Background from earlier reports (not re-read): in May 2026 XPENG targeted mass production by end-2026 with first use in its own retail stores as shopping guides; in June He Xiaopeng took direct charge of the IRON business - Not given: price, production volume, factory location. TechNode reports the Paris remarks in paraphrase, with no direct quotes ## What happened XPENG, the Chinese electric-car maker, has been developing the IRON humanoid alongside its cars and flying vehicles. At a company event in Paris on Oct 12, He Xiaopeng laid out when it reaches customers: production at scale by the end of this year, deliveries in the first half of 2027, and Europe in the second half. The robot starts in shops and malls, where it greets and guides visitors, before XPENG tries factories and homes. Only TechNode's short report was read; it relies on Humanoids Daily and contains no direct quotes. XPENG's own release was not found. ## Why it matters It is one of the first dated commitments by a carmaker to sell humanoids outside China, and it sets a checkable deadline (mass production by Dec 31, 2026). ## Your AI and this story - GPT-6 Astra (training cutoff April 2026): 165 days after its cutoff - Claude Opus 5.5 (training cutoff June 2026): 104 days after its cutoff - Gemini 4 Argon (training cutoff March 2026): 195 days after its cutoff - Grok 4.7 (training cutoff May 2026): 134 days after its cutoff ## Sources 1. [TechNode: XPENG plans humanoid robot deliveries in 2027 and European rollout later that year (Oct 13, 2026)](https://technode.com/2026/10/13/xpeng-plans-humanoid-robot-deliveries-in-2027-and-european-rollout-later-that-year/) (technode.com, press) 2. [TechNode: XPENG puts humanoid robot production line into operation as first IRON robot walks off autonomously (Sept 9, 2026; from the search summary)](https://technode.com/2026/09/09/xpeng-puts-humanoid-robot-production-line-into-operation-as-first-iron-robot-walks-off-autonomously/) (technode.com, press) ## Changes - 2026-10-13 (filed): Created ## Related - 2026-10-08: [UBTECH and FAW-Volkswagen agree to develop and test humanoid robots for car-factory logistics](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-10-08-ubtech-faw-volkswagen-humanoid-logistics/index.md) - 2026-09-29: [IDC: ~25,000 humanoid robots shipped worldwide in H1 2026 (+432%), with Chinese vendors above 95% and Agibot first](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-29-idc-humanoid-shipments-h1-2026/index.md) - 2026-09-17: [Figure Helix 2.5: humanoids do chores zero-shot in 30 never-seen homes](https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-17-figure-helix-2-5/index.md)