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Apptronik Opens Robot Park and Unveils Apollo 2

The Austin facility will feed real-world training data to Google DeepMind’s Gemini Robotics to speed customer pilots and push toward production in 2027.

Overview

  • Apptronik opened a nearly 90,000-square-foot Robot Park in Austin on Tuesday to run fleets of Apollo robots through logistics, manufacturing and retail tasks and collect labeled training data.
  • Apollo 2, which Apptronik formally introduced on the same day, is offered in bipedal and wheeled versions and was built as a data-collection and pilot platform with upgraded battery, motors and sensors.
  • Most Robot Park sessions use teleoperation so humans guide robots as they practice tasks and the recorded sensor and video data feed Gemini Robotics under a research partnership with Google DeepMind.
  • CEO Jeff Cardenas says the company has built “hundreds” of Apollo 2 units, plans continued pilots through 2026, and expects production-grade robots to appear in 2027 and beyond.
  • Apptronik’s push responds to a shortage of real-world robotics data, is backed by recent large funding rounds and corporate partners such as Mercedes, and could speed deployments that change factory and service work practices.