As @Apptronik expands their Robot Park facility, our research partnership means real-world data collected by the latest Apollo 2 humanoid platform will help train and advance Gemini Robotics. 🤖 Find out more →

Humanoid-maker Apptronik has opened Robot Park, a factory in Austin, Texas, where its robots will practice real-world tasks across a warehouse the size of two football fields.

We’re proud to announce that Apptronik has been honored with the 🏆 2025 A-LIST Award for Manufacturing Excellence! This recognition celebrates our team’s relentless drive to build world-class humanoid robots right here in Austin - advancing the future of manufacturing and redefining what’s possible through human-centered innovation. Huge thanks to Opportunity Austin and everyone who continues to champion Central Texas as a global hub for AI, robotics, and advanced manufacturing. The future is being built right here, and we’re just getting started! See the full list of A-LIST Award winners here:  #ALISTAwards# #OpportunityAustin# #apptronik# #ai# #humanoid# #humanoidrobot# #robotics#

We’re celebrating another win to close out the year! 🎉 Apptronik has been named a 2025 Top Tech Startup by @SDCExec , a recognition that highlights companies transforming the supply chain and logistics space. This win is a testament to Apollo’s recent development milestones and Apptronik’s commitment to helping humans in warehouse settings. Kudos to our innovative team! Read more here:  #SupplyChain# #Logistics# #FoodLogistics# #TechStartups# #AI#

Congrats Kay Sheils Kingsbury on being named to @MyABJ 2026 Best CFO at a startup! Excited to see this well-deserved recognition 👏 #robotics# #ai# #cfo# #apptronik# Read more here:

Mitsubishi Motors joins robotics race to deploy humanoid workers by 2027. Pairing with Highlanders, a Japanese robotics company. - Agility $CCXI x Foxconn, Toyota - Apptronik x $JBL, Mercedes - Highlanders x Mitsubishi - Figure × BMW - Boston Dynamics x Hyundai (subsidiaries) - Optimus x Tesla (Internal) - Rainbow Robotics x Samsung (subsidiaries) Idk if it's just me of there's a lot of patterns with humanoid companies playing buddy-buddy up with a major auto player/manufacturer. If they're not already vertically integrated by one already. Then the Chinese players like UBTech/AgiBot/Unitree don't seem to care and work with a wide variety of auto players in China. Curious how this trend plays out...

Came across an interesting report from SVRC Research called "State of Robotics 2026", published in April. Which listed: 1. Figure AI 2. Agility Robotics $CCXI 3. Apptronik 4. $TSLA 5. Boston Dynamics 6. Physical Intelligence 7. 1X Technologies 8. $AMZN Robotics 9. Covariant 10. Skild AI As the National Champions of the United States robotics program. "The United States leads the world in where robotics is heading: Fundation models, OpenAI-style scaling laws applied to action, autonomous vehicles. While losing the race on where robotics is shipping today." Then it frames: 1. Rare Earths Exposure: from Neodymium for motors to samarium-cobalt for high-temp applications as a critical vulnerability. 2. Actuator dependency. Series elastic actuators, quasi-direct-drive motors, and precision reducers overwhelmingly sourced from Japan, Germany, and China As one of the main vulnerabilities alongside Manufacturing velocity/data collection cost/regulations. Then their take was: "With at least six well-funded US humanoid companies competing for a market still in early formation, we expect at least two significant consolidation events (acquisition or merger) in 2027". With Logistics / E-commerce (like $AMZN / $FDX) and Automotive from $GM to $FORD as being the immediate top use cases for deployment. I think it's just interesting to see a lot of my points I've been talking about reiterated by research firms. Regardless, I do think it's going to be a major frontier race between the US and China. Agility Robotics (which I own), Tesla, Figure, and Apptronik as leaders representing the USA. Competing against Unitree, AGIbot, Ubtech, and others in China.

Humanoid robotics is the bull thesis of the next decade, and almost nobody can buy it. Figure, Physical Intelligence, 1X, Apptronik, Unitree, Agility, and most leading humanoid robotics companies remain private. Access runs through a small set of institutional funds, while the cycle that could define the labor force of the next century is being underwritten without retail in the room. XMAQUINA built the fix: a decentralized ecosystem that opens robotics capital markets to broader participation. The companies being built today will define what physical labor looks like for the next fifty years. If access stays locked behind Sand Hill term sheets and prime-broker desks, robotics becomes one of the most consequential wealth-creation cycles of our lifetimes and one of the most exclusive. The people who saw it coming, who use these systems, and who will work alongside them should not be forced to watch from the sidelines. That is the outcome XMAQUINA exists to prevent. We're excited to have @XMAQUINA launch on Virtuals Protocol. The infrastructure that opened the agent economy to anyone with a wallet now brings that same access model to robotics. The bull thesis of the next decade should not stay private.