Apollo 2 Bipedal
About
About Apollo 2 Bipedal
Apollo 2 Bipedal is Apptronik’s bipedal humanoid robot for industrial application development. Its Artemis software helps to coordinate perception, planning, motion control and interaction with nearby people. Its chest display communicates task progress and battery status, while lights around the mouth indicate speech and listening states. Configurable proximity zones allow the robot to pause when an object enters its working perimeter.
For fleet operations, Apptronik’s FleetConnect provides robot monitoring, task dispatch and data management. Swappable batteries, opportunity charging and tethered operation offer different ways to support extended work and development sessions. Together, these features address the practical requirements of supervising humanoids, gathering task data and keeping them available across repeated trials in industrial environments.
Capabilities
Source-backed capabilities
- Operating environments: Humanoid training and real-world data collection, Human-built spaces
- Bipedal walking
Claimed - Walk through spaces designed for people in the bipedal Apollo 2 configuration. - environment: Human-built spaces
Source - Object manipulation
Claimed - Handle and reposition objects with the Apollo 2 manipulation platform.
Source - Remote and shared control
Pilot - 2026-06-30 - Apptronik says bipedal Apollo 2 robots are active at its Austin Robot Park, collecting training data across logistics, manufacturing, retail and other customer-driven tasks. The Apollo 2 program combines teleoperation and autonomous execution, with data-collection workflows also running at customer and partner sites. - environment: Humanoid training and real-world data collection
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Deployments
- Operating Use
Mixed teleoperation and autonomous training - 2026-06-30 - Robot Park, Austin - Humanoid training and real-world data collection - Apptronik says bipedal Apollo 2 robots are active at its Austin Robot Park, collecting training data across logistics, manufacturing, retail and other customer-driven tasks.
Source - Customer Site
1 named pilot site - 2025-02-25 - Jabil - electronics manufacturing - Jabil and Apptronik said newly manufactured Apollo humanoid robots would use Jabil factory environments for validation testing and simple repetitive manufacturing tasks before customer-site deployment.
Source - Customer Site
1 named pilot site - 2024-03-15 - Mercedes-Benz - automotive manufacturing logistics - Apptronik announced a commercial agreement with Mercedes-Benz to pilot Apollo humanoid robots in Mercedes-Benz manufacturing facilities.
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Observed use
Exact-product configurations are shown without inferring supply, purchase, customer status, standard fit, deployment or partnership.
- Ability Hand
2026-02-26 - Pilot - Mounted - Physical - At Mercedes-Benz's Berlin robotics programme, operators used MANUS gloves to teleoperate Apptronik Apollo shown with PSYONIC Ability Hands.
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Resources
Media library
- Apollo 2 platform view
image · Apptronik
Source - Retail task context
image · Apptronik
Source - Hardware detail
image · Apptronik
Source - Apollo 2 at Robot Park
video · Apptronik
Source - Tote-picking demonstration
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Timeline
- Apptronik opens expanded Robot Park and unveils Apollo 2
2026-06-30 - Product Launch - The nearly 90,000-square-foot Austin site anchors a network that also includes Google DeepMind, Mercedes-Benz and GXO locations. Apptronik described a mix of teleoperation and autonomous execution to gather data for Gemini Robotics models. Apollo 2 had already served as a training platform for more than a year; its data would inform the planned Apollo 3 commercial generation.
Source - Apptronik receives 2025 IEEE Robotics and Automation Award for Apollo
2025-05-22 - Award - IEEE’s citation highlights Apollo’s human interaction, mass manufacturability, performance and safety. The Product Innovation award considers innovation, creativity, technical merit, originality and potential impact.
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Context
Market context
Apollo is a general-purpose humanoid robot designed for logistics and manufacturing environments.
- Target environment: Warehouses, factory floors and structured industrial sites.
- Workflow context: Material handling, case movement and human-adjacent workplace tasks where a bipedal form factor offers an advantage over fixed automation.
- Customer context: Industrial operators and logistics companies exploring scalable humanoid deployment.
- Deployment model: Commercial pilot programs progressing toward broader deployment.
- Commercial maturity: Active development platform with pilot-stage commercial deployment.
- Adoption constraints: Humanoid deployment is still early; the main constraint is proving consistent task-level reliability at scale in real facilities.
- Market position: Sits between research-stage humanoids and fully deployed industrial robotics. One of the more commercially positioned humanoid platforms alongside Digit and Atlas.
- Adjacent products: Digit, Atlas, Walker S2
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