Building a walking, working humanoid robot is expensive. XPeng Motors clearly knows this, which is why its humanoid robotics arm, Dogotix, has just secured a war chest big enough to make the rest of the industry pay attention.
On August 24, 2026, XPeng announced that Dogotix raised more than $900 million in its first funding round, handing the unit a post-money valuation of over $6.3 billion. That kind of capital doesn’t get raised for a science project — it gets raised to build robots at scale, and quickly.
The hardware behind the headline is XPeng’s next-generation Iron humanoid, unveiled back in November 2025 and developed by XPeng Robotics in Guangzhou, China. Iron is a genuinely serious piece of engineering rather than a stiff-limbed showpiece. It packs 76 degrees of freedom across its body, plus a remarkable 21 degrees of freedom in each hand — the sort of dexterity you need if you actually want a robot to manipulate objects instead of just standing around looking futuristic.
Driving all that motion is a trio of XPeng’s own Turing AI chips, delivering roughly 2,250 TOPS of effective computing power. That’s a colossal amount of on-board intelligence, and it hints at the company’s ambition to run sophisticated perception and control models locally rather than leaning entirely on the cloud.
The physical stats are equally telling:
- Height: 173 cm
- Weight: 70 kg
- Max speed: 5.8 km/h
- Battery life: 4 hours
At 173 cm and 70 kg, Iron is deliberately built to human proportions — the better to move through spaces and use tools designed for people. A walking pace of 5.8 km/h won’t win any sprints, but it’s brisk enough for a shop floor or a factory aisle.
So when can you actually meet one? Not yet. XPeng expects Iron to enter mass production by the end of 2026, starting with deployments in its own stores and campuses before a broader commercial rollout and deliveries across China and overseas markets in 2027. As of now, Iron isn’t something a consumer or business can buy.
A word on pricing, too: despite a widely circulated $150,000 figure, XPeng has not announced any official price. That number is a third-party estimate, so treat it with the appropriate scepticism.
What’s clear is that Dogotix now has both the technology and the funding to move from prototype to production line. With rivals racing toward the same goal, that $900 million could prove to be one of the more consequential cheques written in the humanoid robotics boom.
