Apptronik Opens Robot Park to Train Apollo 2

Industry context: Real-world, task-level data remains a major bottleneck for training production-grade physical AI; practitioners building embodied systems watch data flywheels closely. Reported facts: Apptronik opened Robot Park, a nearly 90,000-square-foot training facility in Austin, to collect task data from its humanoid fleet, according to a GlobeNewswire press release and Reuters reporting. The company unveiled Apollo 2, available in both bipedal and wheeled configurations, and said the facility supplies data to Google's Gemini Robotics under a research partnership with Google DeepMind, per GlobeNewswire and Reuters. Reuters and Business Insider cite CEO Jeff Cardenas saying, "We have a factory that produces robots, we also have a factory that produces data." Reuters also reports Apptronik raised $520 million in February, valuing the company at about $5 billion.