Awkward debut: XPeng’s Iron robot falls on stage
ⓘ Xpeng
During its first public presentation, Iron – the humanoid robot from Chinese carmaker XPeng – unexpectedly fell over. The company’s CEO called it a natural part of the learning process, while the community mostly responded with humor.
Marius Müller (translated by Marius Müller), Published 🇩🇪
Humanoid robots are light a lengthy methodology from mass production, however most up-to-date advances show how a ways the know-how has attain. Unitree’s G1, for occasion, no longer too lengthy previously stamped an impressively detailed Olympic emblem into recent snow. Boston Dynamics’ Atlas is noteworthy extra agile, pulling off backflips and cartwheels. Restful, as most up-to-date clips show, no longer every thing goes in conserving with devise.
Iron’s debut didn’t precisely scurry with out anxiety – pretty literally, as the humanoid robot from Chinese language carmaker XPeng Motors took a topple on stage. In the video, the robot, recognized for its human-cherish proportions, walks toward the stage with slightly inflexible however valid actions. Once in living, it raises one hand – then all straight away guidelines over. The motive of the topple stays unclear. The clip used to be shared on X by accounts corresponding to The Humanoid Hub.
In step with a fable by Sina Files (in Chinese language), XPeng CEO He Xiaopeng answered a day afterward the Chinese language platform Weibo, calling the topple a pure segment of the approach course of. “It reminds me of how all children learn to walk: they fall, get back up, and soon they’re running – and keep running,” he said. The video moreover surfaced on Reddit, the set aside the neighborhood reacted with humor. One other exciting robot fail comes from Unitree’s G1, which by chance kicked its trainer in an especially unhappy space.
Linked Articles
As a teenager in the 90s, my Gameboy used to be my accepted partner. After college, the PlayStation used to be fired up. After I finally purchased my first PC, I was fully bent. My ardour for gaming has never waned since. For me, writing for Notebookcheck ability reporting on subject issues which will most likely be in actuality conclude to my heart – as neatly as to gaming, I moreover favor to write down about e-mobility, photovoltaics and innovative gadgets. After I’m no longer sitting at my laptop, I’m doubtlessly on water rescue accountability on the Baltic gallop or making an strive to counteract the downsides of my geek existence – specifically sitting for lengthy sessions – at the native swimming pool.
Marius Müller, 2026-02- 9 (Exchange: 2026-02- 9)
