{
  "slug": "apptronik-apollo",
  "name": "Apollo",
  "manufacturer": {
    "name": "Apptronik",
    "country": "US",
    "url": "https://apptronik.com"
  },
  "category": "full-size",
  "announced": {
    "date": "2023-08-23",
    "source": {
      "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/apptronik-unveils-apollo-humanoid-robot/",
      "quote": "Apollo is the first commercial humanoid robot that was designed for friendly interaction, mass manufacturability, performance, and safety.",
      "accessed": "2026-09-20"
    }
  },
  "specs": {
    "height_cm": {
      "value": 172,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/apptronik-unveils-apollo-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "5 feet 8 inches (172 cm) tall",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "weight_kg": {
      "value": 72.5,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/apptronik-unveils-apollo-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "160 lbs (72.5kg)",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "payload_kg": {
      "value": 25,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/apptronik-unveils-apollo-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "Capable of lifting 55 lbs (25kg)",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "battery_runtime_min": {
      "value": 240,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/apptronik-unveils-apollo-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "the swappable battery to power the robot for 4 hours",
        "accessed": "2026-09-20"
      }
    },
    "battery_swappable": {
      "value": true,
      "status": "claimed",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/apptronik-unveils-apollo-humanoid-robot/",
        "quote": "the swappable battery to power the robot for 4 hours",
        "accessed": "2026-09-21"
      }
    }
  },
  "price_history": [],
  "delivery": {
    "status": "shipped",
    "timeline": [
      {
        "date": "2023-08-23",
        "event": "announced",
        "detail": "Apptronik unveiled Apollo, targeting an end-of-2024 release for warehouse and manufacturing tasks.",
        "quantity_min": null,
        "quantity_max": null,
        "source": {
          "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/apptronik-unveils-apollo-humanoid-robot/",
          "quote": "Apollo is the first commercial humanoid robot that was designed for friendly interaction, mass manufacturability, performance, and safety.",
          "accessed": "2026-09-20"
        }
      },
      {
        "date": "2024-03-15",
        "event": "first-demo",
        "detail": "Mercedes-Benz began testing Apollo at a Hungarian manufacturing plant under a pilot agreement; photos show a physical unit on site, but the article notes scale and scope were unclear.",
        "quantity_min": null,
        "quantity_max": null,
        "source": {
          "url": "https://www.therobotreport.com/mercedes-benz-testing-apollo-humanoid/",
          "quote": "Apptronik today announced that leading automotive brand Mercedes-Benz is testing its Apollo humanoid robot.",
          "accessed": "2026-09-20"
        },
        "sector": "automotive"
      }
    ],
    "evidence": [
      {
        "kind": "pilot",
        "customer": "Mercedes-Benz",
        "detail": "Mercedes-Benz says Apollo units were present at its Digital Factory Campus and collecting data in a production environment by its 18 March 2025 publication. The source does not identify their hardware generation or establish an arrival day, transaction type, or quantity.",
        "source": {
          "url": "https://group.mercedes-benz.com/company/production/production-network/mbdfc-humanoid-robots.html",
          "quote": "Apollo robots have been collecting data in a production environment",
          "accessed": "2026-09-27",
          "media_type": "article",
          "publisher_type": "official",
          "variant": "Apollo (hardware generation not specified by source)",
          "published": "2025-03-18",
          "review": {
            "status": "supported",
            "method": "text",
            "checked": "2026-09-27",
            "reason": "Mercedes-Benz customer-primary text supports physical Apollo pilot presence at its facility; it does not identify a hardware generation, exact arrival day, unit count, or sale."
          }
        }
      }
    ]
  },
  "capabilities": [
    {
      "id": "teleoperation-shown",
      "status": "demonstrated",
      "autonomy": "teleoperated",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://www.manus-meta.com/use-cases/mercedes-benz-deploys-apptroniks-apollo-at-factory-floor-using-manus-gloves",
        "quote": "human operators wearing MANUS gloves directly teleoperating Apollo demonstrated target movements while the system logged synchronized data in real time.",
        "accessed": "2026-09-27",
        "media_type": "article",
        "publisher_type": "official",
        "review": {
          "status": "insufficient",
          "method": "text",
          "checked": "2026-09-27",
          "reason": "The text source was reviewed, but no video segment was watched; the existing capability status and autonomy classification for Apollo were not fully verified."
        }
      },
      "note": "Describes the Mercedes-Benz Digital Factory Campus Berlin-Marienfelde pilot; published by MANUS (the glove vendor involved in the deployment), an independent third party to Apptronik and Mercedes-Benz, not a manufacturer highlight reel."
    }
  ],
  "notes": [
    "Apptronik's own site (apptronik.com/apollo) returned no fetchable content during this research session; all specs here are sourced from The Robot Report's launch and Mercedes-Benz pilot coverage instead.",
    "Shipped bar: Mercedes-Benz’s 18 March 2025 report names Apollo at its Digital Factory Campus and describes on-site production-environment data collection on its own channel. This supports a named physical customer pilot of Apollo, while the hardware generation, exact handover date, sale, count, and scaled deployment remain unproven. The former media.mbusa.com URL returned 404; the cited Mercedes-Benz group page is accessible.",
    "The separate GXO/Apptronik relationship (gxo.com, Aug 2024) does not clear the same bar: GXO's own news page (https://gxo.com/news_article/shaping-supply-chains-with-humanoid-technology/) lists Apollo alongside Digit and 'Reflex' but describes GXO as still evaluating Apollo in a lab setting before any live-facility deployment, unlike Digit which GXO describes as already live -- so Apollo-at-GXO is not treated as a second shipped delivery here; the Mercedes-Benz pilot is what carries this record to shipped.",
    "actuator_torque_nm, battery_wh, charge_time_min, sdk, warranty, and order_type remain omitted for lack of sourced figures; Apollo was offered through enterprise pilots. The Mercedes-Benz first-demo event retains its automotive sector; no dated delivery event is asserted.",
    "locomotion left out (2026-09-21): this record covers the original 2023 Apollo generation, not the later modular Apollo 2 (which apptronik.com/apollo/apollo-2 explicitly offers as \"a bipedal configuration\" or \"a wheeled base\"). The Robot Report's 2023 unveil article and the Mercedes-Benz Digital Factory Campus Berlin-Marienfelde press release/MANUS glove coverage used for this record's shipped status do not state which mobility base was used on site. No literal quote pins the original Apollo or its Mercedes deployment to legs vs. wheels, so the field stays empty per the task's Apollo special case (use what the source says about the Mercedes deployment, else omit)."
  ],
  "updated": "2026-09-27",
  "media": [
    {
      "type": "patent",
      "file": "media/apptronik-apollo/usd993296-fig1.png",
      "caption": "Figure 1 from Apptronik's design patent for a robotic upper body.",
      "source": {
        "url": "https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/",
        "accessed": "2026-09-21"
      },
      "license": {
        "name": "USPTO design patent",
        "terms_url": "https://www.uspto.gov/patents/basics/types-patent-applications/design-patent-application",
        "note": "Public record; design patent drawing, not a copyrighted photograph."
      },
      "patent_number": "USD993,296 S",
      "credit": "USPTO / Apptronik, Inc."
    }
  ],
  "simulation": {
    "review": {
      "status": "not_confirmed",
      "checked": "2026-09-27",
      "urls": [
        "https://apptronik.com"
      ],
      "reason": "Targeted searches found no confirmed model for this record; does not mean unavailable."
    },
    "artifacts": []
  },
  "actuator_architecture": {
    "review": {
      "status": "not_confirmed",
      "checked": "2026-09-27",
      "urls": [
        "https://apptronik.com"
      ],
      "reason": "Targeted actuator searches did not confirm an exact-variant architecture claim for this record; this does not mean none exists."
    },
    "groups": []
  },
  "url": "https://humanoidrecord.com/robots/apptronik-apollo/",
  "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "attribution": "humanoidrecord.com",
  "generated_at": "2026-11-03T10:59:20.283Z"
}