Overview
- Apptronik publicly opened Robot Park in Austin on Tuesday, June 30, as a nearly 90,000‑square‑foot teleoperation hub where fleets of Apollo 2 robots perform logistics, manufacturing and retail tasks while human operators guide them.
- The company says the live task runs generate high‑quality embodied data that flows to Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics models under a research partnership to improve robot perception and control.
- Apptronik reported it has built “hundreds” of Apollo 2 units; the robot is modular with bipedal and wheeled versions, runs about four hours, stands roughly six feet tall, and can lift up to 55 pounds with both hands.
- The startup has committed the Robot Park data to customer pilots through 2026 with an aim to begin production‑grade deployments in 2027 and beyond while it develops a commercial Apollo 3 model.
- Backed by major investors including Google and Mercedes‑Benz and boosted by a $520 million funding extension earlier this year, Apptronik positions its data‑first approach as a way to close the shortage of real‑world training data that limits humanoid reliability.