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Jess Kinghorn

Xpeng CEO demonstrates the company's latest sashaying robot is in fact not a person in a morph suit by cutting off its flesh live on-stage

Last week, Chinese electric vehicle company Xpeng debuted its humanoid robot, Iron. Striding across the stage at the company's AI Day event, the robot's movements were impressively smooth—perhaps, some folks on social media suggested, too smooth.

In fact, many took to the comments to declare the robot was actually just a person in a suit—after all, it wouldn't be the first time. However, company CEO He Xiaopeng has since attempted to expose the Iron's mechanical innards, both on-stage and off (via Mashable).

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