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Comparison · 2 robots

Hexagon AEON · XPENG Iron

All humanoid robots. Every measure below is plotted against the full class, so a difference can be read against how much the class itself varies.

Hexagon AEON
XPENG Iron

Hexagon Robotics

Hexagon AEON

Autonomy: IIAssisted Autonomy
Score: 44/100 Concept Stage
Readiness: Not assessed
Price: Not tracked

XPeng Robotics

XPENG Iron

Autonomy: IIAssisted Autonomy
Score: 73/100 Promising
Readiness: Not assessed
Price: Not tracked

Up to three

01 Classification

What each one does on its own.

The Autonomy Ladder is the same five rungs for every robot on the site. A rung describes the conditions a robot handles without you, not how good it is.

Generalized

Any task, any setting

Environmental

Handles new obstacles without help

III

Conditional

Finishes familiar jobs on its own

Assisted

Runs preset routines, needs rescue

Hexagon AEONXPENG Iron

Manual

One action, on command

02 Assessment

Where they actually differ.

The Robovations Score is nine inputs across three pillars, each weighted as shown and each scored so that more is better. A robot can lead on one and trail on another, which is the point of showing them apart. Cost of ownership and data handling are reported on each robot's own page and are never averaged into the score.

None of these robots carries a scored assessment yet, so there is nothing to plot here. The classification and evidence below still apply.

03 Measured against the class

How far apart is a long way?

A number only means something next to the spread it sits in. Each track below is the real range across every classified robot in the class, with the median marked.

Weight47 with a published figure

132.3 lbs154.3 lbs

Hexagon AEON132.3 lbs
XPENG Iron154.3 lbs

26.5 lbsmedian 142.2 lbs661.4 lbs

Height50 with a published figure

65 in70.1 in

Hexagon AEON65 in
XPENG Iron70.1 in

34.7 inmedian 66.9 in86.6 in

Not compared, because fewer than two of these robots carry a published figure: Price, Suction, Runtime, Charge time, Noise.

04 Ownership

What the numbers leave out.

The trade-off

What each design gives up to be good at what it is good at.

Hexagon AEON

Hexagon has never shipped a humanoid before this one, so the 1,000-unit Schaeffler commitment is a bet on a first-generation platform, not a proven one.

The pilot replaces no job outright yet: on-site safety staff remain present at every documented deployment, which is supervision, not autonomy.

XPENG Iron

Detailed hand specification, undisclosed locomotion envelope: XPeng publishes 22 degrees of freedom per hand but no stair, threshold or slope limits, so household deployment scope beyond flat spaces is unestablished.

Teleoperator control removes the autonomy ceiling. Operator skill and latency become bottlenecks; scripted tasks alone do not constitute Level III operation.

Who each one is wrong for

Stated by the record itself. A robot being wrong for a household is a fact about fit, not a fault.

Hexagon AEON

Households or consumer buyers of any kind: AEON is not sold, priced, or available to individual consumers; every documented deployment is an industrial pilot partnership.
Buyers needing unsupervised, hands-off operation today: Every documented deployment runs with on-site safety staff present; no hands-off or unsupervised use has been shown.
Smaller operations wanting a single unit or short trial: The disclosed commitment is roughly 1,000 units with Schaeffler; there is no published path to a small-scale or single-unit order.
Buyers requiring a proven safety or reliability record: No independent safety certification, failure-rate data, or multi-year track record exists yet for this first-generation platform.

XPENG Iron

Homeowners seeking autonomous household help now: XPENG Iron has no confirmed shipping date, retail availability, or published roadmap to consumer deployment. Waiting for platforms already shipping is more practical.
Buyers with limited robotics budgets: No pricing has been published for IRON and no consumer channel exists, so budget planning is not possible. Full-size humanoids are not currently sold at published consumer prices.
Users requiring end-to-end autonomous operation: Teleoperator fallback and scripted-task operation indicate the robot cannot complete tasks without human operator guidance. Autonomous household operation is undemonstrated.

What stays your job

The upkeep ownership hands back to you, whatever the autonomy level says.

Hexagon AEON

Daily: Battery charging between shifts; no published downtime or hot-swap figures.
Weekly: Sensor and camera calibration checks by on-site technical staff.
Monthly: Software and behavior updates pushed via Hexagon’s fleet management.
Every 3-6 months: Actuator and joint wear inspection; no published parts-replacement cadence.
As needed: Wheeled-leg component service; no independent failure or repair data published.

XPENG Iron

After every use: Return to dock for battery charging; teleoperation latency and operator fatigue management.
Weekly: Gripper and joint inspection for debris or contact wear (not yet detailed by manufacturer).
Monthly: Soft-actuator seals and arm bearing lubrication status check (standard humanoid maintenance pending documentation).
As needed: Firmware updates and operator recalibration (specific cadence unpublished).
Annually: Battery conditioning and seal replacement (pending published consumables list).

05 Evidence

How much each of these is standing on.

Classifications rest on different depths of evidence. A pre-release assessment and a verified one are not the same kind of claim.

Evidence behind each classification
Robot	Evidence status	Sources reviewed	Last assessed
Hexagon AEON	Not Consumer-Ready	—	Sep 2026
XPENG Iron	Pre-Release	10	Aug 2026