NEXT with John Koetsier
NEXT with John Koetsier
John Koetsier
Apptronik has a totally different approach to building humanoid robots
36 minutes Posted Sep 25, 2023 at 4:23 pm.
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Who will win the race to have the world’s first usable general purpose humanoid robot?


I thought I knew all the companies making general purpose robots:

- Tesla

- Sanctuary AI

- Figure AI

- Fourier Intelligence

- Agility Robotics

- Boston Dynamics


I was wrong ... there’s probably a bunch I don’t know. But one that popped up as interesting is Apptronik. They’re based in Austin TX, they're partnering with NASA, and they're building Apollo, a 5’8” 160-pound robot.


In this TechFirst, we chat with CEO Jeff Cardenas. And we learn that he has a completely different approach to building a humanoid robot than probably every other robotic company out there.