Apptronik

Robotics · Austin, US

General-purpose humanoid robots (Apollo) for manufacturing, logistics and retail.

Founders

Jeff Cardenas (United States · ♂) — A technology-commercialization specialist who, after consulting work, spun Apptronik out of UT Austin's Human Centered Robotics Lab in 2016 to commercialize humanoid robotics, becoming CEO.
Nicholas Paine (United States · ♂) — A robotics PhD who developed series-elastic actuators and worked on NASA's Valkyrie robot, co-founding Apptronik to bring that actuator technology to market as CTO.
Luis Sentis (Spain · ♂) — A UT Austin robotics professor whose Human Centered Robotics Lab incubated Apptronik, co-founding the company in 2016.

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Date	Round	Amount
Feb 2026	Series A Apptronik announced a $520 million Series A extension (over $935 million in total Series A funding) with B Capital, Google, Mercedes-Benz, John Deere and QIA to scale its Apollo humanoid.	$520M

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