Apptronik Plans to Debut Next Humanoid This Year

During a fireside chat at A3’s second annual Humanoid Robot Forum Tuesday, Apptronik cofounder and CEO Jeff Cardenas confirmed the company’s plans to showcase a new version of its humanoid robot, Apollo, before the end of the end of 2025.

Cardenas gave me a sneak preview of the original Apollo robot during an information meeting at Automate in May 2023. Three months later, the company officially announced the humanoid, showcasing a modular approach to mobility that offered the option of legs or a wheeled base, along with a far more approachable design than its dystopian-styled preffered by a number of its competitors.

The executive didn’t offer much more in the way of information regarding what form an Apollo 2.0 might take, though he did confirm that the company is looking to begin integrating the system into its pilot tests.

"We’ve been working heavily with Google DeepMind," Cardenas explained. "We have robots at a variety of sites with Google and have been working at the integration with Apollo and Gemini and really trying to push the state of the art forward. There’s a lot of exciting results we haven’t shown yet. We’ll show a lot more, hopefully soon."