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Company

Apptronik

Customers
Mercedes [1]
Deployment
Mercedes-Benz production line — Apollo humanoid helping build cars [2]
Founded
2016 [3] [4]
Height
1.7 meters [5]
Headquarters
Austin, Texas [6] [7] [8] sources disagree
Introduced
2023 [8]
Latest Form D
$331,397,787 sold (filed 2025-11-05) [9]
latest_round
$403M Series A [10] [11] sources disagree
Latest round investors
B Capital, Capital Factory, Google [11]
Open roles
84 [12]
Partners
Sanctuary AI [7]
Partners
Google DeepMind [13]
Partners
Mercedes-Benz (Apollo pilot) [14]
Partners
Google DeepMind (embodied AI) [11]
Partners
Jabil (manufacturing pilot) [15]
Payload
25 kg [5]
Website
https://apptronik.com [3]
Weight
73 kilograms [5]

Deployment evidence

Announced pilot

Apollo → Mercedes-Benz

Apptronik announces a commercial agreement to pilot Apollo. Commercial terms do not establish a completed rollout, production scale or current operating status.

Work
Parts delivery and inspection
Location
Manufacturing facilities; sites not specified
Payment evidence
Commercial agreement reported
Robots reported
Undisclosed
Report date
Record reviewed
  • Apptronik · Manufacturer claimSupporting text found
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Robots

Leadership

  • Jeffery Cardenas Executive Officer, Director Form D
  • Nicholas Paine Executive Officer, Director Form D
  • Clarence Daugherty, IV Director Form D
  • Howard Morgan Director Form D

Competes with

Companies with robots in the same categories — computed, not sourced.

Timeline

  1. Experts to discuss the state of humanoid robots at RoboBusiness The Robot Report
  2. Humanoid robot startup Apptronik has now raised $935M at a $5B+ valuation TechCrunch
  3. Humanoids, AVs, and what’s next in AI hardware with Waabi and Apptronik at TechCrunch Disrupt 2025 TechCrunch
  4. Apptronik launches Elevate Robotics to commercialize non-humanoid robots The Robot Report
  5. Humanoid robots join the assembly line to build more of themselves New Atlas
  6. Apptronik’s humanoid robots take the first steps toward building themselves TechCrunch
  7. Apptronik, which makes humanoid robots, raises $350M as category heats up TechCrunch
  8. Apptronik raises $350 million to build humanoids The Robot Report
  9. Apptronik’s Apollo humanoid robot gets to work at CES 2025 TechCrunch
  10. Nvidia is helping humanoid robots learn through Apple Vision Pro instruction TechCrunch
  11. Mercedes puts Apollo humanoid to work on the production line New Atlas
  12. Mercedes begins piloting Apptronik humanoid robots TechCrunch
  13. The loneliness of the robotic humanoid TechCrunch
  14. OpenAI-backed 1X raises another $100M for the race to humanoid robots TechCrunch
  15. Apptronik's new Apollo humanoid can carry 25% more than the Tesla bot New Atlas
  16. Apptronik Introduces Apollo Humanoid Robot IEEE Spectrum
  17. This is Apptronik’s humanoid robot, Apollo TechCrunch
  18. Apptronik readies its humanoid robot for a summer unveil TechCrunch
  19. Here’s How Apptronik Is Making Their Humanoid Robot IEEE Spectrum
  20. Apptronik Developing General-Purpose Humanoid Robot IEEE Spectrum

References

  1. techcrunch.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    Apptronik began factory pilots with Mercedes in March
  2. newatlas.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    Apptronik's Apollo bot is helping skilled human workers build cars for Mercedes-Benz.
  3. wikidata.org — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  4. spectrum.ieee.org — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    Apptronik spun out from the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin in 2016
  5. spectrum.ieee.org — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    standing 1.7 meters tall
  6. apptronik.com — retrieved Aug 5, 2026
  7. techcrunch.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    running down the Austin startup’s seven-year history
  8. techcrunch.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    The Austin-based firm
  9. sec.gov — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
  10. therobotreport.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    Apptronik earlier this year raised $403 million in Series A funding to help fuel Apollo production.
  11. techcrunch.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    on Thursday announced a $350 million Series A round of financing
  12. boards.greenhouse.io — retrieved Sep 17, 2026
  13. therobotreport.com — retrieved Sep 2, 2026
    Apptronik in late 2024 announced a partnership with Google DeepMind .
  14. techcrunch.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    Now Apptronik is getting in on the action, courtesy of a partnership with Mercedes-Benz.
  15. techcrunch.com — retrieved Aug 6, 2026
    announced a new pilot partnership with American supply chain/manufacturing stalwart, Jabil