Apptronik is an Austin, Texas-based humanoid robotics company founded in 2016 as a spinout from the Human Centered Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. Co-founded by Jeff Cardenas (CEO), Dr. Nick Paine (CTO), and Dr. Luis Sentis (scientific advisor), the company designs and manufactures Apollo, a general-purpose humanoid robot standing 5'8", weighing 160 lbs, capable of lifting 55 lbs, and running for roughly 4 hours on a swappable battery. Apollo targets warehouse, manufacturing, and logistics applications including trailer unloading, case picking, palletization, machine tending, and workcell delivery. Apptronik has commercial pilot programs and partnerships with Mercedes-Benz (automotive manufacturing logistics), GXO Logistics (multi-phase R&D in U.S. distribution centers), Jabil (supply-chain partner helping scale production and an internal Apollo deployment), and Google DeepMind (Apollo integrates Gemini Robotics vision-language-action models). The company previously built NASA's Valkyrie humanoid and ten-plus other research robots. As of February 2026 Apptronik had raised more than $935M (including a $520M Series A-X extension) at a reported $5B valuation, with investors including B Capital, Google, and Mercedes-Benz. The company sells/leases Apollo to enterprise customers via a direct contact-sales motion and ships a proprietary "point-and-click" control suite for deploying solutions; there is no public developer portal, no published REST/AsyncAPI/gRPC API, no public SDK, no open-source release, and no public GitHub repositories under the `apptronik` org.
Apptronik is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Robotics, Humanoid Robots, General-Purpose Robots, Embodied AI, and Vision Language Action.
The Apptronik catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context.
Apptronik’s developer surface includes product news, YouTube channel, and 11 more developer resources.
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name: Apptronik
description: Apptronik is an Austin, Texas-based humanoid robotics company founded in 2016 as a spinout from the Human Centered
Robotics Lab at the University of Texas at Austin. Co-founded by Jeff Cardenas (CEO), Dr. Nick Paine (CTO), and Dr. Luis
Sentis (scientific advisor), the company designs and manufactures Apollo, a general-purpose humanoid robot standing 5'8",
weighing 160 lbs, capable of lifting 55 lbs, and running for roughly 4 hours on a swappable battery. Apollo targets warehouse,
manufacturing, and logistics applications including trailer unloading, case picking, palletization, machine tending, and
workcell delivery. Apptronik has commercial pilot programs and partnerships with Mercedes-Benz (automotive manufacturing
logistics), GXO Logistics (multi-phase R&D in U.S. distribution centers), Jabil (supply-chain partner helping scale production
and an internal Apollo deployment), and Google DeepMind (Apollo integrates Gemini Robotics vision-language-action models).
The company previously built NASA's Valkyrie humanoid and ten-plus other research robots. As of February 2026 Apptronik
had raised more than $935M (including a $520M Series A-X extension) at a reported $5B valuation, with investors including
B Capital, Google, and Mercedes-Benz. The company sells/leases Apollo to enterprise customers via a direct contact-sales
motion and ships a proprietary "point-and-click" control suite for deploying solutions; there is no public developer portal,
no published REST/AsyncAPI/gRPC API, no public SDK, no open-source release, and no public GitHub repositories under the
`apptronik` org.
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callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
source: []
generated: '2026-07-22'
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image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/apptronik.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apptronik/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
created: '2026-05-24'
modified: '2026-05-24'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Robotics
- Humanoid Robots
- General-Purpose Robots
- Embodied AI
- Vision Language Action
- Foundation Models
- Apollo
- Manufacturing
- Logistics
- Warehouse Automation
- Hardware
- Austin
apis: []
common:
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url: security/apptronik-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://apptronik.com
- type: Product
url: https://apptronik.com/apollo
- type: AboutUs
url: https://apptronik.com/about-us
- type: Leadership
url: https://apptronik.com/leadership
- type: News
url: https://apptronik.com/news2
- type: Videos
url: https://apptronik.com/videos
- type: Careers
url: https://apptronik.com/careers
- type: ContactUs
url: https://apptronik.com/contact-us
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/apptronik
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/apptronik-inc.
- type: Twitter
url: https://twitter.com/apptronik
- type: YouTube
url: https://www.youtube.com/@Apptronik
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-type: company
x-tier: 3
x-tier-reason: no-apis
x-public-apis: false
x-developer-portal: false
x-openapi: false
x-asyncapi: false
x-sdk: false
x-cli: false
x-status-page: false
x-rss: false
x-github-org-public-repos: 0
x-partnerships:
- Mercedes-Benz
- GXO Logistics
- Jabil
- Google DeepMind
- NASA (Valkyrie heritage)
x-ai-models:
- Google DeepMind Gemini Robotics (Vision-Language-Action)
x-research-notes: As of 2026-05, Apptronik's website (apptronik.com), product pages (apptronik.com/apollo, apptronik.com/product-page),
leadership page, and news section contain no developer portal, no public API reference, no OpenAPI/AsyncAPI/gRPC specs,
no SDKs, no CLI, no status page, and no engineering blog. The github.com/apptronik organization exists (user id 126704593)
but exposes zero public repositories, packages, or starred projects. Apollo ships with a proprietary "point-and-click" control
suite for warehouse and manufacturing customers, sold via direct enterprise sales, and integrates Google DeepMind's Gemini
Robotics VLA models on-device. Apollo's software interfaces are not exposed to public third-party developers. No artifacts
(openapi/, asyncapi/, json-schema/, capabilities/, examples/, rules/, plans/, rate-limits/, finops/) were generated for
this repository because there is no public API surface to back them.
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