XPENG (Xiaopeng Motors) is a Guangzhou-based maker of smart electric vehicles that has extended its driving-AI work into humanoid robotics. In this corpus it appears once, as the company whose automated humanoid production line sent its first IRON unit walking off the line unassisted, the clearest instance of physical recursion since CATL put humanoids on its battery lines and Linkerbot humanoids assembled their own hands in December 2025.
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XPENG
Chinese smart electric-vehicle maker that has expanded into humanoid robots and launched the world's first automated humanoid production line.
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