Apptronik Apollo
Made by Apptronik
Photo: Apptronik
- dof total
- 71
- height cm
- 173
- weight kg
- 73
- valuation usd
- 5500000000
- arm payload kg
- 25
- battery runtime hr
- 22
- funding raised usd
- 935000000
- battery hotswap min
- 5
Who's exposed
Jobs in the threat radius
- automotive assembly worker
- parts kitter
- production line inspector
- logistics tote handler
Deployment status
Commercially deployed at Mercedes-Benz manufacturing facilities (Berlin-Marienfelde site set up specifically for Apollo automation pilots) and at GXO Logistics warehouses. Funded by Google and Mercedes-Benz alongside other investors; raised $520M at $5.5B valuation in February 2026. Backed AI development uses Google DeepMind technology. Hot-swappable batteries enable near-continuous 22-hour daily operation.
When this hits the labor market
1-2 years for the specific Mercedes use cases (parts delivery to assembly stations, in-process inspection, kitted-tote movement). 2-4 years for broader light industrial deployment in the kinds of facilities that resemble Berlin-Marienfelde — which is to say, German and Western automotive supply chain at the high end. The 22-hour runtime via hot-swap batteries is the operational differentiator: Apollo doesn't need a third-shift human break.
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The third Western automotive humanoid
If Figure goes to BMW and Atlas goes to Hyundai, Apollo goes to Mercedes. Apptronik’s $5.5B-valued bipedal humanoid is now in commercial pilots at Mercedes-Benz’s Berlin-Marienfelde facility, doing the work that drives the automotive humanoid investment thesis: bringing parts to assembly stations, inspecting components in-process, moving kitted totes between operations.
What sets Apollo apart
71 degrees of freedom, 25 kg arm payload, force-control technology that lets the robot sense contact and adapt — designed explicitly to make collisions with humans less dangerous. The operational standout is the battery system: hot-swappable in under five minutes, enabling near-continuous 22-hour daily operation. That’s substantially more uptime than competing platforms running 4–8 hour shifts on single batteries.
The funding profile matters too. $935M raised total, $520M from a Series in February 2026 that included Google and Mercedes-Benz as direct investors. Apollo’s AI capabilities are co-developed with Google DeepMind. That’s not just money — that’s the search-and-models company betting on a specific humanoid form factor for its real-world reinforcement learning research.
Why we care for LostJobs
The threat radius for Apollo is the same as Figure and Atlas: standardized, repeatable assembly and material-handling tasks in environments designed for production lines. The differentiator is uptime. A robot that runs 22 hours a day with three-minute battery swaps takes work that traditionally required two or three shift workers. The labor math closes faster when a single Apollo replaces 2.5 humans worth of shift coverage instead of 1.
If your job is in automotive assembly anywhere in the Mercedes / Daimler / Bosch supply chain in Germany or the U.S., or in a GXO-operated logistics warehouse, Apollo is in your supply chain whether you’ve heard of it or not. Watch the GXO contract scale — that’s the leading indicator for the AMR-to-humanoid transition in logistics.