XPENG sets IRON humanoid deliveries for the first half of 2027

In short: XPENG used a Paris keynote to put dates on its IRON humanoid: mass production targeted for late 2026, deliveries starting in the first half of 2027, and a European rollout in the second half of 2027.

What XPENG said

• Chairman and CEO He Xiaopeng spoke at the Paris Automotive Summit on Oct. 13, 2026. The company says he is the first Chinese automotive CEO to give a keynote there.
• IRON is part of what XPENG calls a Physical AI stack: chips, models and applications across cars, robotaxis, humanoids and flying cars.
• On driving, XPENG described NGP powered by VLA 2.0, which it says is designed to move from L2 toward L4 and to offer the same core capability in China and Europe, ahead of a global push in 2027.
• The company says it is opening parts of its in-house stack to partners, including vehicle platforms, electrical architecture, batteries, e-drives, an "AI BOX," the Turing AI chip and a Turing physical-world foundation model. It pointed to its Volkswagen collaboration (intelligent driving and software, not a stated IRON order) as the example.
• XPENG says it invested about €770 million in R&D in the first half of 2026.

Why it matters

The release gives a delivery window, and the dates are still targets. It names no first customer, no price and no volume for the late-2026 line. Most humanoid pilots so far have been in the United States, China and Korea, so the European rollout puts IRON in a market outside those three.

He Xiaopeng: "Partnership starts with trust, and after trust comes openness."