Apollo

Apollo is a general-purpose humanoid designed for the immediate demands of industrial labour. Built for safety, affordability and mass manufacturability.

Key industrial use cases

Parts Kitting, Delivery and Inspection

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Robot overview

Apollo is the culmination of over a decade of research, having evolved through 15 different robotic systems before its commercial launch. Unlike research-heavy platforms, Apollo was designed for commercial viability from Day One. Standing 5’8” and weighing 160 lbs, its form factor is intentionally human-sized to ensure it can operate in any space currently occupied by a person.

The platform is powered by a unique force-control architecture that makes it inherently safe to work alongside humans - categorising it as a "collaborative humanoid." With a strategic focus on "intralogistics," Apollo excels at moving cases, unloading trailers, and feeding production lines. Its design philosophy emphasises a "iPhone-like" extensibility, where the hardware acts as a vessel for various AI brains, including internal software and third-party models from partners like Google DeepMind and NVIDIA.

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Key

Technical Breakthroughs

Hot-Swappable Power System: To eliminate the downtime typical of electric humanoids, Apollo features dual battery packs that can be swapped in under five minutes. This provides a near-continuous 24/7 duty cycle, with each pack offering roughly 4 hours of runtime.
Modular Form Factor: Apollo is uniquely versatile; its "brain" and torso can be detached from its legs and mounted onto a wheeled base or a stationary pedestal, allowing enterprises to deploy the same software and upper-body dexterity across different functional areas of a plant.
Advanced Linear Actuators: Apptronik developed proprietary electric actuators that mimic human muscle behavior. These allow Apollo to lift up to 55 lbs (25 kg) while remaining energy-efficient and significantly more affordable to maintain than hydraulic systems.
Friendly Interaction Interface: Featuring digital "status screens" on its face and chest, Apollo provides clear visual feedback to human coworkers (such as task status or "intent" directions), reducing the friction of human-robot collaboration in busy environments.

Deployment

+ Scalability

The "Jabil Flywheel": Through a strategic partnership with global manufacturing giant Jabil, Apollo has entered a "self-producing" phase. Jabil not only utilizes Apollo robots on its own assembly lines for kitting and sorting but is also the primary contract manufacturer scaling the robot's production for the global market.
Mercedes-Benz Integration: Following successful 2024–2025 pilots, Apollo is now being deployed at scale within Mercedes-Benz manufacturing sites, specialising in the "delivery of assembly kits" - inspecting parts and bringing them to the line for human assembly.
Series A Momentum: A $350 million funding round in early 2025, supported by Google and B Capital, has accelerated Apollo’s roadmap, moving it from pilot trials to thousands of units in the field by the end of 2026.
Enterprise Software Integration: Apollo utilises the Apptronik software suite, which offers "point-and-click" deployment for standard warehouse tasks, allowing facility managers to retask the robot without needing specialized robotics engineering teams.

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