Product profile
Astra
Astra is an historical Apptronik torso-up humanoid prototype. Apptronik describes it as a teleoperated torso robot whose human-centred design influenced th...
Facts
- Company
- Apptronik
- Product type
- stationary_manipulator
- Status
- legacy
- Website
- https://apptronik.com/
About Astra
Astra was an upper-body humanoid platform used to develop coordinated arm movement, manipulation and interaction around people. Its teleoperated torso architecture allowed Apptronik to study compact actuation, human-aware physical design and useful task execution without coupling every experiment to a bipedal walking system.
The platform brought together lessons in perception, control and manipulation that later informed Apollo’s upper body and human-facing design. Astra is now part of Apptronik’s historical development lineage alongside earlier biped, exoskeleton and manipulation systems. Astra is a historical predecessor research platform in Apptronik’s humanoid-development lineage.
Market context
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Summary
Type: Semi-Humanoid
Core: Torso platform
Function: Teleoperation research
Audience: Robotics researchers
Operations
- Environment
- robotics laboratories, human-robot interaction research
- Role
- teleoperated bimanual manipulation, historical humanoid prototyping
- Product detail
- industrial_robot, stationary_manipulator, a1a7ce567c9438e8d467e91baf3e2715b5f4496f8c45f237fc7f586f9d283c36, 1672, fixed_base_bimanual_robot, research, 941, fixed torso mount, https://humanoid.guide/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Astra-humanoid-robot-by-Apptronik-humanoid-guide.webp, historical_prototype, industrial_cobot, Pre-Apollo Apptronik development platform, products/apptronik/astra-studio-2026-07-19.png, 2026-07-19, generated_studio_from_transferred_historical_cutout, Stationary Bimanual R...
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- Apptronik opens expanded Robot Park and unveils Apollo 2 — 2026-06-30
- Too Much of a Good Thing: When sim2real Efforts Impede Policy Learning (And What to Do About It) — 2026-05-30
- Apptronik raises $520M Series A-X extension for Apollo humanoid production — 2026-02-11
- Apptronik Receives 2025 A-LIST Manufacturing Excellence Award — 2025-10-29
- Apptronik launches Elevate Robotics for superhuman industrial automation — 2025-06-24
- Virginia Tech thesis studies real-world reinforcement learning deployment on Apptronik Apollo — 2025-06-16
- Apptronik named to CNBC's 2025 Disruptor 50 list — 2025-06-10
- Apptronik and Jabil partner to scale Apollo humanoid production — 2025-02-25