# Apptronik

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/apptronik/  
**Website:** https://apptronik.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 8.2 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 8.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 11.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Apptronik Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Robotics, Humanoid Robots, General-Purpose Robots, Embodied AI, Vision Language Action, Foundation Models, Apollo, Manufacturing, Logistics, Warehouse Automation, Hardware, Austin

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