Buying guide
Digit vs XPeng IRON in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
- Digit has more verified real-world deployments (8 vs 1).
- Digit is at the commercial stage; XPeng IRON at the research stage.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Agility Robotics | XPeng Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | commercial | research |
| Autonomy | — | — |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | Not announced | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — | — |
| Brain |
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| Verified deployments | 8 | 1Baosteel Group |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 38 | 6 |
Editorial summaries
Digit
Digit is the cohort's commercial verification anchor: the most-verified-hours humanoid in the registry, with Agility's GXO Flowery Branch deployment doing the load-bearing work. The maker-facility rule applies in reverse here. GXO operates Digit on customer-paid freight inside GXO's own warehouses, which is the commercial-deployment shape that internal-facility pilots from Tesla, 1X, and others do not yet have. Agility describes Digit's operational envelope as autonomous mobile manipulation in structured logistics; the verification anchor is what operators document at the customer site, not Agility's spec sheet.
XPeng IRON
XPeng's IRON (from the Chinese EV maker XPeng) is a roughly 175-centimeter, 70-kilogram research humanoid, an automotive-OEM entrant into humanoids, the cross-OEM positioning that parallels Tesla Optimus emerging from a carmaker. DEPLOY records it at research maturity with no verified deployments. XPeng has shown IRON in staged demonstrations and stated consumer and industrial intentions, but the verification posture is demonstration, not verified autonomous deployment or commercial sale, and DEPLOY cap-flags aggregator 'autonomous' or 'shipping' framing. As a research platform it has no consumer price.
Common questions
- What is the difference between Digit and XPeng IRON?
- Digit and XPeng IRON are both humanoid robots on the DEPLOY registry. They differ in maker, maturity, price, verified deployments, and how much of their autonomy is independently verified. See the table above for the full head-to-head; each figure is sourced.
- Which has more verified deployments, Digit or XPeng IRON?
- Digit has more verified deployments (8) on the DEPLOY registry than XPeng IRON (1). DEPLOY counts a deployment only when confirmed at a named site with a primary source.
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