Apptronik is the Austin, Texas company that builds Apollo, a general-purpose humanoid robot for factories, warehouses and retail back rooms. As of October 19, 2026, the current robot is Apollo 2, unveiled on June 30, 2026 in bipedal and wheeled versions. It works at Apptronik’s own Robot Park training sites and at customers such as Mercedes-Benz and GXO. There is no public price and no consumer order page: a business that wants Apollo starts with the “Get Started” inquiry form on apptronik.com.
What Apollo 2 is
Apptronik’s Apollo 2 page describes a modular robot: the same humanoid upper body on either two legs, for spaces built for people, or a wheeled base, for high-throughput floors where stability and efficiency matter more than stairs.
- **Batteries:** swappable packs, which Apptronik says allow 22-hour, seven-day operation, plus opportunity charging and a tethered option.
- **Actuators:** Apptronik’s own patented actuators, which the company says reach 90%+ energy efficiency and avoid single-source suppliers.
- **Showing what it’s doing:** an LED “mouth”, speech and listening, and a chest display that shows status, battery level, charging state and task progress.
- **Safety zones:** an impact zone that pauses motion when something enters a set radius, and a configurable perimeter zone for people and equipment nearby.
The robot ships as part of a platform. Artemis is the onboard software that ties perception, planning, control, safety and task execution together. Fleet Connect is the operator layer for monitoring robots, assigning tasks and collecting data across a fleet. The Apollo 2 page does not publish height, weight, payload or battery hours, so treat any figures you see elsewhere as reports, not current specs.
Who uses Apollo today
Apptronik’s June 30, 2026 announcement is the clearest picture of where Apollo 2 actually works:
- **Robot Park, Austin:** a nearly 90,000-square-foot facility where Apollo 2 robots practice logistics, manufacturing and retail tasks and collect training data.
- **Other Robot Parks:** similar data-collection setups at Google DeepMind and at customers Mercedes-Benz and GXO. Apptronik says more locations are planned but has not named cities.
- **Customers and partners named by Apptronik:** Mercedes-Benz, GXO Logistics and Jabil, per the February 2026 funding release. Mercedes began piloting Apollo in 2024, and GXO started a proof of concept in June 2024.
Two cautions when you read about these deployments. Much of the current fleet work is data collection for training, not paid production work with published output numbers. And Apptronik has not released robot counts per site, so “deployed at Mercedes-Benz” tells you a relationship exists, not how many robots run on the line.
Our earlier piece on Robot Park and the Google DeepMind data loop goes deeper on how that training setup works.
The Google DeepMind link
Apptronik has had a strategic partnership with the Google DeepMind robotics team since December 2024. Data collected by Apollo 2 feeds Gemini Robotics, DeepMind’s family of robot foundation models. That does not mean you can download Apollo’s brain: of the Gemini Robotics models, only the embodied-reasoning model is open to developers through the Gemini API, as we explain in What Is Gemini Robotics?
How much money Apptronik has raised
On February 11, 2026, Apptronik announced a $520 million Series A-X extension, bringing its Series A to more than $935 million and total funding to nearly $1 billion. Repeat investors include B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz and PEAK6. New investors include AT&T Ventures, John Deere and the Qatar Investment Authority. Apptronik said the extension was priced at three times its earlier Series A valuation but did not state the valuation itself; Bloomberg reported more than $5.5 billion, and CNBC reported $5 billion.
The company says the money goes to ramping Apollo production, building training facilities and expanding commercial and pilot deployments. In April 2026 it hired former Waymo product chief Daniel Chu as Chief Product Officer, along with services and support leaders from Boston Dynamics and Amazon. In 2025 it also set up Elevate Robotics, a subsidiary for industrial automation that doesn’t use a human form.
Can you buy an Apollo?
Not as a consumer, and not from a price list.
- Apptronik sells to businesses in manufacturing, logistics (including third-party logistics) and retail. Its solutions pages list goods-to-person, person-to-goods, packout, kitting, inspection and sorting, and machine tending.
- You start with the inquiry form on Apptronik’s contact page. Sending it is not an order and does not guarantee a pilot or a delivery date.
- Pricing, deployment terms and whether you’d lease or buy are not published. Expect them to come out of that conversation.
Apptronik’s April 2026 release says the plan is commercial work first, then healthcare and the home “eventually”. There is no home version, no preorder and no date for one. If you want a robot for your home now, the options are different companies, such as the 1X NEO preorder.
How Apptronik compares with other humanoid makers
Apptronik sits in the “named customers, no public price” group. Agility Robotics also sells only through business deals (Digit’s customers and deployment steps), while Unitree lists prices on its store (Unitree G1 price). Our humanoid robot companies hub sorts the main makers by who sells, who pilots and who is still building.