Apptronik News
Latest Apptronik news, funding rounds and robotics & AI coverage. $870M raised. 15 articles tracked by The Robotics Media.
About Apptronik
Apptronik is an American humanoid robotics company headquartered in Austin, Texas, founded in 2016. Its flagship robot, Apollo, is a general-purpose humanoid designed for industrial and logistics applications and is being deployed with major manufacturing and logistics partners. Apptronik raised a large multi-tranche Series A in 2025 reaching over $935 million at a reported $5.5 billion valuation.Key facts
Products by Apptronik
- Apollo (Robot, 2024) — Apptronik’s general-purpose humanoid built for industrial and commercial workflows.
- Apollo 2 (Robot, 2026) — Apptronik’s second-generation Apollo humanoid, used by Google DeepMind as the reference platform for Gemini Robotics 2 whole-body control demos. Configurable wi...
Funding rounds
- Series A — $520M — 2026 — led by B Capital
- Series A — $350M — 2024 — led by B Capital
Latest Apptronik news
- Theseus Robotics' Theo Promises 400 Shelf Restocks an Hour, No Retrofit Required — YC-backed Theseus Robotics exited stealth with Theo, a wheeled-humanoid system that claims to restock supermarket shelves overnight at up to 400 units...
- Agility Robotics Clears Final Vote to Go Public on Nasdaq as AGLT This Week — Shareholders approved Agility Robotics' $2.5 billion merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI on November 2, clearing the way for Nasdaq trading under ti...
- Schaeffler's Humanoid Robot Orders Hit €400 Million as It Cuts 3,460 Jobs — German supplier Schaeffler is cutting 3,460 European jobs and closing five sites, even as it reports a €400 million order backlog in humanoid robotics...
- Agility Robotics Nears Nasdaq Debut With $465M Raise, $300M Digit 5 Backlog — Agility Robotics expects to raise $465 million through its SPAC merger with Churchill Capital Corp XI, backed by more than $300 million in committed o...
- FCC Adds Foreign Humanoid And Quadruped Robots To Covered List, Reshaping US Market — The US FCC's expansion of the Covered List to include foreign-produced advanced robotic devices blocks new Chinese humanoid and quadruped platforms fr...
- Unitree Kicks Off $618M Shanghai IPO, Subscriptions Open August 10 — Chinese humanoid pioneer Unitree Robotics has published its STAR Market prospectus and issuance plan, with preliminary pricing on August 5 and offline...
- Google DeepMind Ships Gemini Robotics 2 With Whole-Body Humanoid Control — Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics 2 gives humanoid robots feet-to-fingertip control and multi-robot teamwork, debuting on Apptronik's Apollo 2 and Fra...
- Faraday Future Completes Six-Series FF EAI Robot World With Faber and All-New Futurist — Faraday Future unveiled the second-half launch of its FF EAI Robot World at Automate Chicago, completing a six-series lineup spanning humanoids, quadr...
- MACHINA Physical AI Summit Debuts in Paris With NVIDIA, DeepMind, 1X — Europe's first dedicated Physical AI event debuted at Station F in Paris on July 7 with talks from NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, 1X, Apptronik, Boston Dyna...
- China Says Humanoid Robot Output Will Top 100,000 Units in 2026 — China's Ministry of Industry and Information Technology told a WAIC press conference this week that domestic humanoid robot output will exceed 100,000...
- Apptronik unveils Apollo 2 humanoid and Robot Park training hub — Apptronik launched Apollo 2, a modular humanoid in bipedal and wheeled configurations, and expanded its Austin Robot Park to fuel Google DeepMind's Ge...
- NVIDIA Broadens Doosan Pact Across Robotics, Power And AI Factories — NVIDIA and Doosan Group are expanding their physical AI partnership to span Doosan Robotics, Bobcat, Enerbility and Electro-Materials, with industrial...
- Mecka AI Raises $60M Series A to Build Human-Motion Data Engine for Robots — New York-based Mecka AI disclosed a $60 million Series A led by Framework Ventures to capture human motion data with body sensors and iPhones, fueling...
- Apptronik Raises $520M Series A to Scale Apollo Humanoid Robots — Apptronik has raised $520M at a $5B valuation co-led by B Capital and Google, bringing its Series A to $935M and accelerating Apollo humanoid producti...
- Humanoid Robots: From WABOT-1 to a Multi-Trillion-Dollar Market — From WABOT-1 and ASIMO to Tesla Optimus and Figure: a deep look at how humanoid robots evolved, the record investment pouring in, the startups launchi...