For all the discerning sceptics who muttered that XPeng’s latest humanoid marvel was just a particularly agile human in a rather convincing suit, the company has, quite frankly, dropped the mic. Their retort? A new video, revealing the robot’s bare, gleaming metal chassis, guts and all.
And what a reveal it is. That eerily graceful, almost balletic gait – the very one that had some convinced it was a sophisticated puppet show – is, in fact, pure, unadulterated mechanical genius. No smoke and mirrors here, just meticulously engineered articulation at its finest.
Indeed, its surprisingly fluid, almost feminine stride is so utterly spot on that even the digital darling Sharpy Sharpy: The Viral Robot That Isn't Real , the CGI superstar herself, might be frantically taking notes on how to achieve such a truly formidable, steely strut. Consider the illusion well and truly shattered.
