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XPENG to Build First Humanoid Robot Mass Production Facility in Guangzhou
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XPENG to Build First Humanoid Robot Mass Production Facility in Guangzhou

Chinese EV maker XPENG announced plans to build what it calls the industry's first humanoid robot mass production facility, located at the Guangtang Sci-Tech Innovation City in Guangzhou's Tianhe District. The 110,000-square-meter park will house production lines for XPENG's IRON humanoid — a highly anthropomorphic robot featuring a human-like spine, biomimetic muscles, flexible skin, dexterous 22-DOF hands, all-solid-state batteries, and three Turing AI chips delivering 2,250 TOPS of compute. XPENG signed a strategic agreement with the Tianhe District government to develop the site, leveraging seven years of robotics R&D and its existing smart EV manufacturing expertise to tackle the humanoid production bottleneck.

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