Here’s How Apptronik Is Making Its Humanoid Robot

Apptronik, a Texas-based robotics company with its roots in the Human Centered Robotics Lab at University of Texas at Austin, has spent the last few years working toward a practical, general-purpose humanoid robot. By designing its robot (called Apollo) completely from the ground up, including electronics and actuators, Apptronik is hoping that it’ll be able to deliver something affordable, reliable, and broadly useful. But at the moment, the most successful robots are not generalized systems—they’re uni-taskers, robots that can do one specific task very well but more or less nothing…