aid: apptronik
name: Apptronik
description: >-
  Apptronik is an Austin, Texas-based humanoid robotics company founded in
  2016 as a spinout from the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of
  Texas at Austin. Co-founded by Jeff Cardenas (CEO), Dr. Nick Paine (CTO),
  and Dr. Luis Sentis (scientific advisor), the company designs and
  manufactures Apollo, a general-purpose humanoid robot standing 5'8", weighing
  160 lbs, capable of lifting 55 lbs, and running for roughly 4 hours on a
  swappable battery. Apollo targets warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics
  applications including trailer unloading, case picking, palletization,
  machine tending, and workcell delivery. Apptronik has commercial pilot
  programs and partnerships with Mercedes-Benz (automotive manufacturing
  logistics), GXO Logistics (multi-phase R&D in U.S. distribution centers),
  Jabil (supply-chain partner helping scale production and an internal Apollo
  deployment), and Google DeepMind (Apollo integrates Gemini Robotics
  vision-language-action models). The company previously built NASA's Valkyrie
  humanoid and ten-plus other research robots. As of February 2026 Apptronik
  had raised more than $935M (including a $520M Series A-X extension) at a
  reported $5B valuation, with investors including B Capital, Google, and
  Mercedes-Benz. The company sells/leases Apollo to enterprise customers via a
  direct contact-sales motion and ships a proprietary "point-and-click"
  control suite for deploying solutions; there is no public developer portal,
  no published REST/AsyncAPI/gRPC API, no public SDK, no open-source release,
  and no public GitHub repositories under the `apptronik` org.
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created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
tags:
  - Robotics
  - Humanoid Robots
  - General-Purpose Robots
  - Embodied AI
  - Vision Language Action
  - Foundation Models
  - Apollo
  - Manufacturing
  - Logistics
  - Warehouse Automation
  - Hardware
  - Austin
apis: []
common:
  - type: DomainSecurity
    url: security/apptronik-domain-security.yml
  - type: Website
    url: https://apptronik.com
  - type: Product
    url: https://apptronik.com/apollo
  - type: AboutUs
    url: https://apptronik.com/about-us
  - type: Leadership
    url: https://apptronik.com/leadership
  - type: News
    url: https://apptronik.com/news2
  - type: Videos
    url: https://apptronik.com/videos
  - type: Careers
    url: https://apptronik.com/careers
  - type: ContactUs
    url: https://apptronik.com/contact-us
  - type: GitHubOrganization
    url: https://github.com/apptronik
  - type: LinkedIn
    url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apptronik-inc.
  - type: Twitter
    url: https://twitter.com/apptronik
  - type: YouTube
    url: https://www.youtube.com/@Apptronik
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-type: company
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: no-apis
x-public-apis: false
x-developer-portal: false
x-openapi: false
x-asyncapi: false
x-sdk: false
x-cli: false
x-status-page: false
x-rss: false
x-github-org-public-repos: 0
x-partnerships:
  - Mercedes-Benz
  - GXO Logistics
  - Jabil
  - Google DeepMind
  - NASA (Valkyrie heritage)
x-ai-models:
  - Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics (Vision-Language-Action)
x-research-notes: >-
  As of 2026-05, Apptronik's website (apptronik.com), product pages
  (apptronik.com/apollo, apptronik.com/product-page), leadership page, and
  news section contain no developer portal, no public API reference, no
  OpenAPI/AsyncAPI/gRPC specs, no SDKs, no CLI, no status page, and no
  engineering blog. The github.com/apptronik organization exists (user id
  126704593) but exposes zero public repositories, packages, or starred
  projects. Apollo ships with a proprietary "point-and-click" control suite
  for warehouse and manufacturing customers, sold via direct enterprise sales,
  and integrates Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics VLA models on-device.
  Apollo's software interfaces are not exposed to public third-party
  developers. No artifacts (openapi/, asyncapi/, json-schema/, capabilities/,
  examples/, rules/, plans/, rate-limits/, finops/) were generated for this
  repository because there is no public API surface to back them.