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HumanoidApptronik2023US

Apollo

General-purpose industrial humanoid for logistics and manufacturing with a swappable battery pack. Apptronik closed a $935M+ Series A (Feb 2026) to ramp Apollo production and pilots.

activeNot for saleL2 Sim-verifiednot buildable

Difficulty index

9.0/13
9.0
Index breakdown
Classhumanoid+5
Costunknown · midpoint+1.5
DOFunknown · midpoint+1.5
Partsunknown · midpoint+1
How the index works

Top of the ladder. This robot lives on the humanoid domains.

Specimen photographs

5 items
  • Apollo studio render, three-quarter front view
    Studio render of the published MJCF, keyframe pose from the model. Geometry only; colours are the model's own materials.Rendered by Hyperspawn from mujoco_menagerie/apptronik_apollo (Apache-2.0) · Hyperspawn render · source
  • Apollo studio render, side view
    Side view of the same MJCF render, keyframe pose from the model.Rendered by Hyperspawn from mujoco_menagerie/apptronik_apollo (Apache-2.0) · Hyperspawn render · source
  • 4 s turntable of the MJCF studio render.Rendered by Hyperspawn from mujoco_menagerie/apptronik_apollo (Apache-2.0) · Hyperspawn render · source
  • Hello ApolloApptronik · official video, embedded · source
  • Welcome to Robot Park, where Apptronik is building the future with Apollo 2Apptronik · official video, embedded · source

Spec card

6/13 known
Height
173 cm
Mass
73 kg
Payload
25 kg
Runtime
240 min
Price
not for sale
Actuators
Electric

Not in the registry: degrees of freedom, speed, battery, bom total, part count, compute, sensors. Left blank rather than guessed.

What you learn building it

  • +Whole-body control
  • +Dozens of actuators on one bus
  • +Balance and fall handling
  • +Safe bring-up of a full-size machine
  • +Testing in simulation (URDF/MJCF) before touching hardware

Openness

20/100
  • not publicCAD
  • not publicBOM
  • not publicFirmware
  • publicSim model
  • not publicSoftware
  • not publicPolicies

Score 20/100 computed from what is public: CAD 25, BOM 20, sim 20, firmware 15, software 10, policies 10.

Repos & models

MJCF ↗MuJoCo Menagerie ↗
Site

Build it

Closed hardware; no public CAD or BOM.

humanoidrobot.build/apptronik/apollo · Closed hardware; no public CAD or BOM.

Simulate

Load it in the browser simulator and train a policy before building.

Open on humanoidrobots.training ↗

Next rung

None. This is the top. Find people building it on humanoidrobots.team.

This is the top of the ladder.

NoteInvestors include Google, Mercedes-Benz, B Capital, John Deere, QIA. Funding earmarked partly for a new robot slated to debut in 2026 (apptronik.com has an 'Apollo 2' page).

Sources

  1. [1]CNBC Feb 2026 - $520M extensionchecked 2026-09-24
  2. [2]The Robot Reportchecked 2026-09-24
  3. [3]Humanoid.guide Apollo specschecked 2026-09-24
  4. [4]MuJoCo Menagerie apptronik_apollochecked 2026-09-24