Apptronik, a Google-backed startup, has launched a new robot training facility in Austin, Texas, to accelerate the commercialization of humanoid robots. The nearly 90,000-square-foot facility, called Robot Park, is designed to move robots from pilot projects to production deployments.
Robot Park and Apollo 2
Robot Park houses fleets of humanoid robots performing logistics, manufacturing, and retail tasks to generate training data for AI models. The company also introduced Apollo 2, its latest humanoid robot, available in both bipedal and wheeled configurations, which has operated for more than a year as the company’s data collection platform.
According to CEO Jeff Cardenas, Robot Park supplies data to Gemini Robotics, Google’s robotics AI model, under Apptronik’s research partnership with Google DeepMind. Cardenas described Robot Park as the engine for building production-grade AI models.
Apptronik has built hundreds of Apollo 2 robots but declined to disclose deployment numbers. The company plans to continue piloting through this year and start seeing real production versions in 2027 and beyond.
Apptronik raised $520 million in a funding round announced in February that valued the company at about $5 billion.
Original reporting: Appleton, WI News Feed (HLL/CB) — read the source article.
