Apptronik Opens Robot Park to Train Apollo 2

Apptronik opened a 90,000-square-foot training facility called Robot Park in Austin to collect task data from its humanoid fleet, including the newly unveiled Apollo 2. The facility supplies data to Google's Gemini Robotics under a research partnership with Google DeepMind. The company raised $520 million in February at a $5 billion valuation.

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 .