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Reflex vs XPeng IRON in 2026
Comparing 2 humanoid robots across availability, pricing, capabilities, and verified deployments. Current as of 2026.
Key differences
Neither Reflex nor XPeng IRON leads across the verified dimensions on DEPLOY's record as of 2026; the comparison table holds every sourced figure side by side.
| Attribute | ||
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Reflex Robotics | XPeng Robotics |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Maturity | pilot | pilot |
| Autonomy | — | ◐ not independently verified |
| Availability | internal-onlyenterprise | internal-onlyenterprise |
| Price | $50,000 (manufacturer target) | Not announced |
| Capability claims | — |
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| Brain | — |
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| Verified deployments | 1Reflex Robotics | 1Baosteel Group |
| Privacy practices | — | — |
| Sources on file | 11 | 10 |
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Editorial summaries
Reflex
Reflex Robotics' Reflex is a wheeled mobile-manipulator humanoid for warehouse and logistics operations: a sub-2-foot wheeled base, dual arms (25 pounds per arm, 50 pounds combined), an adjustable spine reaching floor to high shelf, a 16-plus-hour battery, and swappable three-finger grippers with suction. The verified-vs-claimed point is the autonomy posture: Reflex is designed for teleoperated deployment with a learning-from-demonstrations path toward autonomy, not an autonomous worker today.
DEPLOY records it at pilot maturity with one verified deployment. As industrial and logistics equipment it has no consumer price, and its wheeled base distinguishes it from the bipedal-humanoid cohort.
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.
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Recent coverage
- Xpeng Iron humanoid targets 2027 sales after internal trialsXPeng IRON · Humanoid.guide · 2026-10-13
- Orbital inks deal with Germany’s Reflex to build AI data centres in spaceReflex · Resilience Media · 2026-09-10
- Orbital Partners with Reflex Aerospace on ODC PlatformReflex · Payload Space · 2026-09-10
- XPENG IRON Autonomously Walks Off Production LineXPeng IRON · CleanTechnica · 2026-09-08
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