Product profile
Astra
Astra is an historical Apptronik torso-up humanoid prototype. Apptronik describes it as a teleoperated torso robot whose human-centred design influenced th...
Facts
- Company
- Apptronik
- Product type
- stationary_manipulator
- Status
- legacy
- Website
- https://apptronik.com/our-work/astra
About Astra
Astra was an upper-body humanoid platform used to develop coordinated arm movement, manipulation and interaction around people. Its teleoperated torso architecture allowed Apptronik to study compact actuation, human-aware physical design and useful task execution without coupling every experiment to a bipedal walking system.
The platform brought together lessons in perception, control and manipulation that later informed Apollo’s upper body and human-facing design. Astra is now part of Apptronik’s historical development lineage alongside earlier biped, exoskeleton and manipulation systems. Astra is a historical predecessor research platform in Apptronik’s humanoid-development lineage.
Market context
industrial_robot, 1600, stationary_manipulator, 900, 3175ae03454aacfe6e15de7168997134436efc4fd4bf9618e0f395f5614a6bdc, 1672, fixed_base_bimanual_robot, research, 941, fixed torso mount, 2026-08-23, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6a0dd86942776facbc2f6baa/6a31e6ebdb4fc12daa172ad0_Astra.jpeg, first_party_official_media, https://humanoid.guide/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Astra-humanoid-robot-by-Apptronik-humanoid-guide.webp, historical_prototype, https://apptronik.com/our-work/astra, industrial_cobot, Pre-Apollo Apptronik development platform, products/media-upgrades/2026-08-23/batch1/apptronik-astra-official-3175ae03454a-1600x900.jpg, 2026-08-23, first_party_official_media_16_9_crop, industrial_robot, exact_product_geometry_verified, Stationary Bimanual Robot, industrial_robot, existing sourced values preserved; exact-model fields normalized to variant_specs, stationary_manipulator, industrial_robot
Summary
Type: Semi-Humanoid
Core: Torso platform
Function: Teleoperation research
Audience: Robotics researchers
Specifications
- actuation
- compact actuation with coordinated upper-body motion
- control_focus
- manipulation, perception and control
- interaction_design
- human-aware design for shared environments
- lineage
- direct bridge toward Apollo manipulation and interaction capabilities
- platform_form
- upper-body humanoid manipulation platform
Operations
- Deployment environment
- robotics laboratories, human-robot interaction research
- Primary user
- robotics researchers, industrial pilot teams
- Workflow
- teleoperated bimanual manipulation, historical humanoid prototyping
- Interaction model
- teleoperated, research_control
- Mobility class
- fixed_or_host_mounted_upper_body
- Product detail
- industrial_robot, 1600, stationary_manipulator, 900, 3175ae03454aacfe6e15de7168997134436efc4fd4bf9618e0f395f5614a6bdc, 1672, fixed_base_bimanual_robot, research, 941, fixed torso mount, 2026-08-23, https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6a0dd86942776facbc2f6baa/6a31e6ebdb4fc12daa172ad0_Astra.jpeg, first_party_official_media, https://humanoid.guide/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Astra-humanoid-robot-by-Apptronik-humanoid-guide.webp, historical_prototype, https://apptronik.com/our-work/astra, industria...