Xpeng Group Vice President Gu Jie said that the solid-state battery for Xpeng's IRON robot has entered small-batch production, with the robot currently in the pre-SOP stage. Xpeng previously announced at its 2025 Tech Day that IRON would be the first to use all-solid-state batteries. The company plans mass production of advanced humanoid robots by the end of 2026 and expects to enter global stores and commercial scenarios from 2027.
XPeng's second-generation VLA achieves capability spanning from L2 to L4, and the same model has been deployed on XPeng's L4-level Robotaxi.
XPeng's Robotaxi has officially adopted the Chinese name 'Xiaopeng Youyou' and English name 'XPENG YOYO', with a ride-hailing mini program launched simultaneously. The service will gradually open to the public, marking a new phase of user operations and commercialization exploration.
XPENG announced its humanoid robot plan: mass production by the end of 2026, with deliveries starting in the first half of 2027, initially targeting commercial scenarios such as stores and shopping malls, then expanding to industrial and household settings.
At a media interview after the G9L launch on September 17, 2026, Xpeng Motors CEO He Xiaopeng said making robots is about 20 times harder than building cars, with hardware, software, design, and supply chain developed in-house. Mass production has gradually begun, and robot capabilities are expected to see a leap between the fourth quarter of 2026 and the second quarter of 2027. On the same day, the Xpeng G9L went on sale with a limited-time starting price of 231,800 yuan.
At the meeting, Duan Zhifei introduced that computing power is a prominent feature of XPeng's entry into the era of embodied computing. XPeng's robots and cars are equipped with self-developed Turing AI chips, which have an effective computing power of 2250 TOPS (trillion operations per second).