At the largest automobile exhibition on the planet held in Shanghai, the Chinese startup XPeng demonstrated a humanoid robot Iron, which is equipped with a Turing AI central processor of its own design and, due to the presence of 60 joints, can serve as a full-fledged replacement for a person not only in the automobile assembly industry, but also in everyday life.
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As CarNewsChina notes, the XPeng Iron robot is 173 cm tall and weighs approximately 70 kg, and its wrist manipulators replicate human limbs at a scale of 1:1, providing up to 22 degrees of freedom and precise manipulation of even the smallest objects. In total, the robot has 200 degrees of freedom, and the use of large language models for its training allows it to achieve smooth movements that are not typical of most modern robots.
Several Irons are already in operation at XPeng’s auto assembly plants, and the software that controls them is largely unified with the active driver assistance systems used in the brand’s vehicles. XPeng uses the latest generation of reasoning language models to control the robots.
The proprietary Turing AI processor provides a performance level of 3000 TOPS, and Tianji AIOS is used as the operating system. The robot’s machine vision system provides double circular coverage of the immediate area (720 degrees, in XPeng’s terminology), which is also borrowed from the brand’s electric vehicles. In addition to the assembly line, XPeng hopes to find application for the Iron robot in the service and household sectors.