Summary
Apollo is Apptronik's mid-sized industrial humanoid, in pilot deployments with Mercedes-Benz, GXO and Jabil. With a 25 kg payload, swappable battery packs and a modular base whose legs can be swapped for wheels in under an hour, it is one of the most commercially mature US industrial humanoids.
Apollo runs Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics models alongside NVIDIA's Project GR00T foundation models on a Jetson AGX Orin compute stack, wrapped in a layered safety system of light curtains, collision avoidance and e-stops. Apptronik raised $520 million at a $5 billion valuation in a round co-led by B Capital and Google, with Mercedes-Benz as a strategic investor and Jabil as manufacturing partner. The current unit cost is around $500,000, but the company plans a Robots-as-a-Service model with deliveries at roughly $80,000/year and a long-term target final price below $50,000, scaling to high volumes from 2027.