Dongfeng Xiaodong

Dongfeng has used the Xiaodong name for successive humanoid prototypes rather than one unchanged machine. An official November 2025 account described a black biped called Xiaodong that handled dialogue, guidance and other service interaction. That display also included a separate silver industrial humanoid, so its hardware claims should not be transferred to Xiaodong.

In 2026 Dongfeng presented an updated Xiaodong for industrial use, co-developed with Huazhong University of Science and Technology (HUST). Dongfeng contributed to the robot's 'brain' and HUST led the 'cerebellum' work. Dongfeng's Tianyuan Embodied Brain provides the embodied-intelligence platform, and the current robot has dexterous hands, upgraded compute and improved grasping, walking and recognition.

As of 8 October 2026, Dongfeng said the robot would begin factory training in late October for sorting, handling, loading and unloading, and quality inspection, with trial production planned by year-end. Small-batch output is targeted for 2027. These are future plans, not completed deployment or production milestones, so the robot remains a prototype.

Specifications are still thin. Dongfeng has not published height, weight, degrees of freedom, speed, payload or battery capacity for the current iteration. A 700-TOPS T500-controller claim in older coverage concerned a different dealership-role robot and has therefore been removed. No price or buy channel exists.