XPeng announced that its second-generation VLA large model has been upgraded with stronger temporal understanding and future-behavior prediction, and that this capability has now landed on-device in its IRON humanoid robot, according to IT之家. The company says IRON re-reasons from the image in front of it every 0.2 seconds and predicts motion changes within the next 6 seconds, instead of recognizing a gesture once and then executing a fixed sequence. XPeng claims the robot can adapt mid-interaction during handshakes, fist bumps and high-fives — adjusting when a hand suddenly closes into a fist or when the target position of a high-five changes — closing a real-time loop between what it sees and how its body moves; all of these are vendor claims. IT之家 noted that XPeng unveiled the new-generation IRON at a tech day on November 5, 2025, with a physical-world model, three Turing AI chips and a VLT+VLA+VLM combination, and that XPeng plans mass production by end-2026 with deliveries in the first half of 2027 starting in stores and shopping malls.