Apptronik
| Country | United States |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2016 |
| Head office | Austin, Texas |
| Press material | No press images released "You are granted permission to display, reproduce, distribute, and download the materials on this Website solely for your own personal, non-commercial use." |
| Website | apptronik.com/ |
Apptronik is a robot company in Austin, Texas. It was founded in 2016 out of the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin.
The co-founders are Jeff Cardenas, the chief executive, and Nick Paine, the chief technical officer. The company says it has more than 350 staff. Its team worked on Valkyrie, a humanoid robot for NASA, the United States space agency.
What they build
The product is Apollo, a humanoid robot shaped like a person. Apptronik showed the first Apollo in August 2023. It said the robot stands 5 foot 8 inches tall, weighs 160 pounds and lifts 55 pounds. That is about 172 centimetres, 73 kilograms and 25 kilograms.
Batteries slide in and out. Each one runs for about four hours, so a swap puts the robot back to work.
The current model is Apollo 2, shown in June 2026. It comes two ways: on two legs, or on a wheeled base. The wheeled version is built to match existing safety rules for mobile robots in industry.
Apollo 2 has a screen on its chest and a mouth made of lights. These show battery level, status and what the robot is doing. Apptronik says its own actuators, the motor units that move the joints, are more than 90 percent efficient. That figure is the company’s own.
Two software products come with the robot. Artemis handles seeing, planning, safety and movement. Fleet Connect lets a customer watch and manage many robots at once.
What they are known for
Apptronik is known for working with very large partners. Mercedes-Benz signed a commercial agreement in March 2024, which the company called its first publicly announced Apollo deployment. The logistics firm GXO ran an early trial in 2024. The manufacturer Jabil agreed in 2025 to help build the robots.
In December 2024 Apptronik began a partnership with Google DeepMind on Gemini Robotics, a family of artificial intelligence models for robots. In February 2026 the company said its Series A funding round passed 935 million dollars.
It also runs Robot Park in Austin, a training site of nearly 90,000 square feet. Fleets of Apollo 2 robots work there and at customer sites, partly by remote control, to gather training data.
Read the marketing carefully. Apptronik called the first Apollo “the world’s most capable humanoid robot” in 2023. That is a claim by the maker, not a tested fact. The company’s own robot count has also grown in its telling: over 10 earlier robots in 2023, 15 by 2026.
How they sell
Apptronik sells to businesses, not to the public. The site lists uses such as picking goods, packing, kitting, inspection and loading machines. Every page ends with a contact form rather than a price.
What the company sells today is worth stating plainly. Apptronik describes Apollo 2 as a platform for data collection and training, already working at customer and partner sites. It says the next machine, Apollo 3, is the commercial product. No price, no delivery time and no public order route have been published.
Staff numbers and funding details above come from Apptronik’s own releases. Independent outlets, including CNBC and Reuters, reported the February 2026 round at a five billion dollar valuation; Apptronik’s own release does not state that figure.
Sources
- Apptronik – Home
- Meet Apollo 2
- Apptronik Unveils Apollo (press release, 23 August 2023)
- Welcome to Robot Park (press release, 30 June 2026)
- Apptronik Closes Over $935 Million Series A (press release, 11 February 2026)
- Apptronik Press Releases
- Apptronik Leadership
- Apptronik Website Terms of Use
- CNBC: Apptronik raises $520 million at $5 billion valuation
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