Apptronik describes Apollo 2 as a platform for collecting robot training data. On June 30 the Austin company opened an expanded Robot Park, a facility of nearly 90,000 square feet where Apollo 2 robots, in bipedal and wheeled versions, work through logistics, manufacturing and retail tasks drawn from customer use cases. The data goes to Google DeepMind to train its Gemini Robotics models.

Austin is the flagship. Apptronik says similar data-collection workflows run at Google DeepMind and at customers Mercedes-Benz and GXO, and that it plans Robot Parks in more cities.

“The industry has spent years showing what robots can do in demos. We’re focused on what they can do every day on the job.”

Jeff Cardenas, Apptronik CEO and co-founder, in the Robot Park announcement

How the data is made

The robots are not working alone. Apptronik says Apollo 2 generates data “through a combination of teleoperation and autonomous execution,” backed by a teleoperation stack and physics simulation. That is normal for this stage of robot learning, and it means a robot at a customer’s Robot Park is collecting examples, not necessarily doing the job unaided. The company does not say what share of the work is teleoperated, how many robots are involved, or how many hours of data it has collected.

The loop Cardenas describes is robots working, collecting data and improving each cycle with the Google DeepMind robotics team. Apptronik and Google DeepMind announced their partnership in December 2024, and Google is also an investor. Apptronik’s February funding release said part of its Series A money, now more than $935 million, would go to “building state-of-the-art facilities for robot training and data collection.” Robot Park appears to be part of that spending.

Why two body types

Running legged and wheeled robots side by side lets Apptronik collect data in more settings. Chief Commercial Officer Barry Phillips tied the choice to customers, saying the modular design is “a direct response to customer demand for adaptable automation.” The wheeled version is meant to fit current industrial mobile robot safety standards, while the bipedal one is where Apptronik refines walking safety in real conditions.

Apollo 3 follows the training platform

Apptronik says the data collected by Apollo 2 will support Apollo 3, its next commercial product. The June announcement gives no launch date or specifications for that model.