{"id":224881,"date":"2025-11-11T05:04:39","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:04:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/robotics-company-builds-straight-up-terminator"},"modified":"2025-11-11T05:04:39","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T11:04:39","slug":"robotics-company-builds-straight-up-terminator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/robotics-company-builds-straight-up-terminator","title":{"rendered":"Robotics Company Builds Straight-Up Terminator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/robotics-company-builds-straight-up-terminator.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am kind of blown away that they can get motors to work in such an elegant way. I assumed it was soft body mechanics,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/singularity\/comments\/1oq475f\/comment\/nng6cvf\/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web3x&utm_name=web3xcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">wrote another<\/a>. \u201cWow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Iron made its first debut on Wednesday, when XPeng CEO He Xiaopeng introduced the unit as the \u201cmost human-like\u201d bot on the market to date. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.humanoidsdaily.com\/feed\/xpeng-debuts-most-human-like-iron-robot-details-vlt-brain-and-2026-production-goal\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Per <em>Humanoids Daily<\/em><\/a>, the robot features \u201cdexterous hands\u201d with 22 degrees of flexibility, a \u201chuman-like spine,\u201d gender options, and a digital face.<\/p>\n<p>According to He, the bot also contains the \u201cfirst all-solid-state battery in the industry,\u201d as opposed to the liquid electrolyte typically found in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caranddriver.com\/features\/a63306863\/solid-state-batteries-evs-explained\/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">lithium-ion batteries<\/a>. Solid-state batteries are considered the \u201choly grail\u201d for <a href=\"https:\/\/insideevs.com\/news\/771402\/every-solid-state-battery-ev\/\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">electric vehicle development<\/a>, a design choice He says will make the robots safer for home use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI am kind of blown away that they can get motors to work in such an elegant way. I assumed it was soft body mechanics,\u201d wrote another. \u201cWow.\u201d Iron made its first debut on Wednesday, when XPeng CEO He Xiaopeng introduced the unit as the \u201cmost human-like\u201d bot on the market to date. Per Humanoids [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,17,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-sustainability","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}