XPENG's IRON robot demos full-duplex speech with 9-mic array and lip reading
ChrisGPT · x · 2026-09-23
XPENG showed a new IRON humanoid demo: full-duplex speech-to-speech, multi-person tracking, speaker identification via a 9-microphone array plus lip-movement recognition, Chinese/English switching, memory of people and preferences, and graduated head/waist/body repositioning toward whoever it talks to.
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