IRON humanoid robot. Image credit: XPENG
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On the morning of September 8th in Guangzhou, China, XPENG’s IRON humanoid robot autonomously walked off the production line. While much of America is getting ready to return to work from the Labor Day holiday, the result of years of hard work is coming to fruition at XPENG. The initial steps signify a leap forward from R&D prototyping to line manufacturing on the way to industrial-scale production.
XPENG claims this is the “world’s first high-level, general-purpose humanoid robot to be manufactured on a production line and walk off it autonomously, without human assistance or remote control.”
While we have seen many robot demonstrations before, including recently at IFA Berlin, they have tended to rely on a level of remote control or pre-programed motion. From the moment it walks off the production line, IRON operates autonomously.
