XPENG Robotics Demonstrates Human-Like Humanoid IRON

XPENG Robotics recently presented IRON, a humanoid prototype and a general-purpose "body logic" framework that coordinates skeleton geometry, a muscle-like lattice, skin materials, and learning methods. The company highlights three connected advances—waist/spine mechanics, compliant lattice materials, and a reworked control stack—that improve perceptual human-likeness. These choices raise simulation and data costs but yield more expressive, robust motion across sizes and roles.