Facts

• Company: Apptronik
• Product type: Humanoid
• Status: development
• Capability focus: Generalist
• Website: https://apptronik.com/apollo

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Record / Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Apollo is Apptronik commercial humanoid robot for logistics, manufacturing and industrial work. It is designed for human-safe operation, mass manufacturability, swappable batteries and payload handling in warehouses and production environments.

Overview

Apollo is Apptronik commercial humanoid robot for logistics, manufacturing and industrial work. It is designed for human-safe operation, mass manufacturability, swappable batteries and payload handling in warehouses and production environments.

Market context

Apollo is a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for logistics and manufacturing environments.

• Target environment: Warehouses, factory floors and structured industrial sites.
• Workflow context: Material handling, case movement and human-adjacent workplace tasks where a bipedal form factor offers an advantage over fixed automation.
• Customer context: Industrial operators and logistics companies exploring scalable humanoid deployment.
• Deployment model: Commercial pilot programs progressing toward broader deployment.
• Commercial maturity: Active development platform with pilot-stage commercial deployment.
• Adoption constraints: Humanoid deployment is still early; the main constraint is proving consistent task-level reliability at scale in real facilities.
• Market position: Sits between research-stage humanoids and fully deployed industrial robotics. One of the more commercially positioned humanoid platforms alongside Digit and Atlas.
• Adjacent products: Digit, Atlas, Walker S2

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Material handling, case movement and human-adjacent workplace tasks where a bipedal form factor offers an advantage over fixed automation.

Capability

generalist

Deployment environment

Warehouses, factory floors and structured industrial sites.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Material handling, case movement and human-adjacent workplace tasks where a bipedal form factor offers an advantage over fixed automation.
• Capability: generalist
• Deployment environment: Warehouses, factory floors and structured industrial sites.

Specifications

• Runtime: 4 h
• Battery System: Hot-swappable battery packs
• Charging: Plug-in charging or tethered operation supported
• Interaction Model: LEDs in head, mouth, and chest communicate robot status
• Height Cm: 173 cm
• Safety Features: Adjustable perimeter zone and impact-zone pause behavior around moving objects
• Control Interface: Point-and-click software suite for deploying and integrating warehouse and manufacturing automation
• Operational Environment: Warehouses and manufacturing plants
• Weight Kg: 72.57 kg
• Payload Capacity Kg: 24.95 kg

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial humanoid platform, Humanoid robot platform
• Workflow: Humanoid workplace tasks
• Capability: Whole-body control
• Deployment Environment: Factory floor
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform
• Commercial Stage: Deployed platform

Record / Articles

• 2026-02-11 - Article - Apptronik raises $520M to scale Apollo humanoid production

Timeline / Research

• 2026-02-11 - Funding - Apptronik raises $520M Series A-X extension for Apollo humanoid production - Apptronik announced a $520 million Series A-X extension with backing from existing and new investors.
• 2025-06-16 - Research Publication - Virginia Tech thesis studies real-world reinforcement learning deployment on Apptronik Apollo - The Virginia Tech master's thesis is titled Deploying Reinforcement Learning in the Rea…
• 2025-02-25 - Partnership - Apptronik and Jabil partner to scale Apollo humanoid production - Apptronik and Jabil announced a collaboration to scale production of Apollo humanoid robots.
• 2025-02-13 - Funding - Apptronik raises $350M Series A to scale Apollo humanoid production - Apptronik raised a $350 million Series A co-led by B Capital and Capital Factory, with participation from Google.
• 2024-06-20 - Partnership - GXO and Apptronik launch multi-phase humanoid robotics pilot program - GXO announced a multi-phase R&D initiative with Apptronik to test Apollo humanoids in logistics operations.
• 2024-03-15 - Partnership - Apptronik and Mercedes-Benz pilot Apollo humanoids in manufacturing facilities - Apptronik and Mercedes-Benz entered a commercial agreement to pilot Apollo humanoid robots in Mercedes manufact…
• 2023-08-23 - Product Launch - Apptronik unveils Apollo humanoid robot for industrial work - Apptronik unveiled Apollo, an all-electric humanoid robot designed for industrial and logistics tasks alongside people.
• 2022-09-20 - Partnership - Apptronik partners with NASA to accelerate Apollo humanoid robot commercialization - Apptronik announced a NASA partnership to accelerate commercialization of Apollo, its general-purpose human…
• 2022-06-14 - Funding - Apptronik secures $14.6M seed round to accelerate general-purpose robot commercialization - Apptronik secured $14.6 million in seed funding to accelerate commercialization of general-purpose robot…
• 2024-12-26 - Deployment - Apptronik pilots Apollo robot for Amplifier's holiday order fulfillment - Apollo sorts orders into outbound shipping containers, showcasing advanced perception and dexterous handling capabiliti…

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Named Pilot Site - 1 named pilot site - 2025-02-25 - Jabil - electronics manufacturing - Jabil and Apptronik said newly manufactured Apollo humanoid robots would use Jabil factory environments for validation testing and…
• Named Pilot Sites - 1 named pilot site - 2024-03-15 - Mercedes-Benz - automotive manufacturing logistics - Apptronik announced a commercial agreement with Mercedes-Benz to pilot Apollo humanoid robots in Mercedes-Benz m…

Comparable Systems

• Atlas - Boston Dynamics - Humanoid
• PUDU D9 - Pudu Robotics - Anthropomorphic Biped
• IRON - XPeng Inc. - Humanoid
• Kepler K2 - Kepler Robotics - Humanoid
• 4NE1 - Neura Robotics - Humanoid
• Vanar Generation-1 - Vanar Robots - Humanoid
• Walker S1 - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
• Walker S - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform