Humanoid Robots

The manufacturing industry is experiencing a tight labor market as fewer and fewer workers are available to – or want to – fill physically challenging, laborious positions. In this session, Apptronik’s co-founder and CEO Jeff Cardenas will explore how supplementing workers with humanoid robots powered by AI technology can increase employee productivity, decrease injuries on the job and give workers the opportunity to focus on higher-level tasks at work.

In the year since he delivered his talk, “Humanoid Robots: The Only Automation Solution Not Limited To What It Can Do Today, Nor Tomorrow” at Automate 2023, Apptronik has made monumental strides towards making the vision of allocating physical labor to the robots a reality. In August, Apptronik unveiled Apollo, the world’s most capable humanoid robot designed to transform the industrial workforce and beyond as the first commercial humanoid robot that was designed for friendly interaction, mass manufacturability, performance, and safety.

In this session, Jeff will discuss real-world use cases for humanoid robots both in the near-term and long-term. His talk will span how humanoid robots will initially focus on tasks that involve gross manipulation and later expand and meet an even wider range of use cases in the future that involve dexterous manipulation – all while providing the human workforce with the ability to focus on roles that are most fulfilling and uplevel their impact.

For a long time, we’ve talked about humanoid robots as the future of robotics and automation. But with this year’s advancements, we are now talking about humanoid robots in the present – in shifting from special purpose automation to multi-purpose to general purpose automation, the manufacturing and logistics industries will evolve dramatically in 2024 and beyond. This session will cover that new reality and how to get ahead.

Jeff Cardenas, Co-founder and CEO, Apptronik

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