Apptronik Opens Robot Park for Humanoid Robot Training

Apptronik announced the opening of an expanded Robot Park in Austin, Texas, and introduced Apollo 2, the current version of its humanoid robot platform. The announcement brings together three elements: a physical training facility, a modular humanoid robot, and a research partnership with Google DeepMind. Robot Park is described as the center of a broader network of data collection sites at customer and partner locations. Apollo 2 is being used in bipedal and wheeled-base configurations to collect operational data across tasks and environments that Apptronik says will support Gemini Robotics models and the development of future humanoid systems. The nearly 90,000-square-foot Austin facility is designed to generate real-world physical experience from Apollo 2 robots working through customer use cases. The reported task areas include logistics, manufacturing, retail, and other customer-driven activities. Similar workflows have also been deployed across a network that includes Google DeepMind and customer sites such as Mercedes-Benz and GXO. Apptronik identifies three main sources of development data: teleoperation, autonomous execution, and physics simulation. Teleoperation and autonomous operation provide data from real robot interactions, while simulation is used to support hardware design and algorithmic development. The partnership with Google DeepMind gives the data collection strategy a model development pathway. Apptronik says data collected by Apollo 2 contributes to Gemini Robotics, described in the release as Google DeepMind's foundational AI models for robotics.