Fourier GR-1
A humanoid from the rehabilitation robotics world stepping into the broader race.
Fourier, China
XPENG, China
XPENG Iron
An automotive-style entrant that shows how broad the humanoid race is becoming.
- Status
- Coming soon
- Public price
- Not disclosed
- Category
- General-purpose humanoid
- Best for
- Future consumer platform
How close to a home
3 / 5
Why it matters
When a company from the EV world enters the humanoid story, it changes how mainstream the category feels.
What it can do
Positioned as a future humanoid platform drawing on XPENG's broader automation and mobility ambitions.
The company
XPENG brings automotive design language and scalable manufacturing thinking into the humanoid conversation.
Specs
From XPENG’s own announcement of 8 September 2026: the first IRON walked off XPENG’s newly commissioned humanoid production lines in Guangzhou, built to automotive-grade quality with over 80 percent of core processes automated. IRON has 76 degrees of freedom in the body and 21 in each hand, a fully enclosed flexible lattice skin, and three Turing AI chips giving up to 2,250 TOPS of compute. XPENG publishes no height, weight, price or delivery date, so none is listed here.
Roboosh verdict
Even early-stage entrants like Iron matter because they widen the map of who could shape this market.
Reality check
Not every important robot is available now. Some matter because they reveal who is preparing for the next phase.
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