AgiBot shipped 5,168 humanoids in 2025 against roughly 150 each for Tesla, Figure and Agility — a 30× gap. Meanwhile Unitree became the first humanoid maker to list publicly and factories are being built for volumes nobody has yet sold. A read of shipments against ambition.
Google DeepMind released Gemini Robotics 2, extending robot control from upper-body manipulation to whole-body coordination — 'feet to fingertips.' Demonstrated on Apptronik's Apollo 2, it walks, crouches and manipulates while reasoning through instructions in real time. Dexterity results include a 92% success rate unscrewing a lightbulb; a companion ER 2 model handles planning and multi-robot teamwork.
Apptronik opened Robot Park, a ~90,000 sq ft data-collection and training facility in Austin, and unveiled Apollo 2 in bipedal and wheeled configurations — feeding training data to Google DeepMind's Gemini Robotics models.
Apptronik — A $520M Series A extension (backers include Google, Mercedes-Benz and the Qatar Investment Authority) values Apptronik at $5B and lifts total funding to ~$1B, to scale Apollo production toward ~$80k/unit at volume from 2027.