Brain
Xpeng Robotics' vision-centric VLA (Tesla-FSD-style, vision-only) shared across Xpeng EVs, robotaxis, and the IRON humanoid. Trained on a 30,000+ GPU cloud cluster. Runs on the Xpeng Turing AI chip. Announced for open-sourcing to global partners, with Volkswagen as the launch partner. VLA 2.0 rolled to Xpeng Ultra vehicles in Q1 2026; IRON humanoid mass production is targeted for end-2026.
Foundation model · Maturity: Pilot · Open source · Powers 2 robots
Machine-readable surfaces
- Markdown mirror: /brains/vlt.md
- RSS feed: /brains/vlt/feed.xml
- JSON-LD: embedded in this page’s head
- REST API: /v1/brains/c923bf79-8e36-4895-aa6e-ff9c10eb05c3
- Revision history: /brains/vlt/history
- Data documentation: /data
- Query this programmatically: Deploy MCP
Architecture
Vision-centric VLA (Tesla-FSD-style, vision-only), shared across Xpeng EVs, robotaxis, and the IRON humanoid. Trained on a 30,000+ GPU cloud cluster. Runs on the Xpeng Turing AI chip.
Key facts
- DEPLOY maturity rationale
- Pre-production: VLA 2.0 rolled to Xpeng Ultra vehicles Q1 2026; IRON humanoid mass production targeted end-2026. Recorded as pilot
- Open-source pledge
- VLA 2.0 announced for open-sourcing to global partners
- Launch partner
- Volkswagen, plus Turing chip nomination
- Unveiled
- Xpeng AI Day, November 5, 2025
- IRON mass production target
- End-2026
- ET1 milestone
- January 2026
- Powered-models flagged (non-humanoid, not in registry)
- Xpeng robotaxis, XNGP ADAS for Xpeng EVs
Developed by (1)
Powers (2)
- XPeng IRONXPeng Robotics · humanoid
- XPENG RobotaxiXPeng Robotics · av
Common questions
- What is VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0)?
- Xpeng Robotics' vision-centric VLA (Tesla-FSD-style, vision-only) shared across Xpeng EVs, robotaxis, and the IRON humanoid. Trained on a 30,000+ GPU cloud cluster. Runs on the Xpeng Turing AI chip. Announced for open-sourcing to global partners, with Volkswagen as the launch partner. VLA 2.0 rolled to Xpeng Ultra vehicles in Q1 2026; IRON humanoid mass production is targeted for end-2026.
- Which robots run on VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0)?
- 2 robot models on the DEPLOY registry run on VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0): XPeng IRON, XPENG Robotaxi.
- Who developed VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0)?
- VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0) is credited to XPeng Robotics on the DEPLOY registry. Each developer attribution is verified via primary sources.
- Is VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0) open source?
- Yes. VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0) is recorded as open-source / open-weights on the DEPLOY registry, meaning model weights or source code are publicly available.
- What type of AI is VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0)?
- VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0) is a foundation model, built on a Vision-centric VLA (Tesla-FSD-style, vision-only), shared across Xpeng EVs, robotaxis, and the IRON humanoid. Trained on a 30,000+ GPU cloud cluster. Runs on the Xpeng Turing AI chip. architecture on the DEPLOY registry.
- What is VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0)'s maturity stage?
- VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0) is at the pilot stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder. Pilot stage means at least one named-customer trial deployment is verified.
Sources (4)
- Xpeng pressroom (primary) · https://en.xiaopeng.com/news.html
- Electrek: Xpeng VLA coverage · https://electrek.co/
- RoboHorizon: Xpeng VLA 2.0 + IRON · https://robohorizon.com/
- Inside China Auto: Xpeng AI Day November 5, 2025 · https://insidechinaauto.com/
Methodology: Verified · 4 sources (1 primary) · last reviewed 2026-06-04
Verification posture
Verified
High confidence
Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-06-04
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: pilot
Sources by quality tier
- 3
- unclassified
- Unclassified source
- 1
- primary-company-ir
- Company IR disclosure
The framework is documented at /methodology. Corrections at /corrections. Reviewer: DEPLOY editorial team.
Methodology surface for VLT (XPENG VLA / VLA 2.0).Canonical ID c923bf79-8e36-4895-aa6e-ff9c10eb05c3