CES 2025 It's a mixed bag for humanoid robots. The form factor was a watershed moment, with Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang and photos of top players. In his speech on Monday.
Among them, Agility's Digit was on display at the closed-access Nvidia booth, along with a small self-driving belt. It's a nice return to the old-style bipedal robot that was shown at CES 2020. Ford's exhibition.
In addition, With the exception of Apptronik, humanitarian representation is limited to smaller companies. The Austin company's Apollo robot made an appearance as part of Texas Instruments at the show. Humanoid uses some of the Dallas-based semiconductor giant's modules internally.
After a few near misses, This was the first time I had seen Apollo in person. When Apptronik presented to TechCrunch Robot's first movie In 2023, I had to double check that it wasn't an animated render. There is another world about robots. It's honestly refreshing because so much competition offers similar aesthetic visions to humans.
Apollo is bright and cartoonish, with a pair of large eyes and a head shape, bringing back warm memories of early iMacs. Like other first-generation humanoids, Apollo will focus on factories; But just because it's meant for an industrial setting doesn't mean it's going to be nice and cool.
Apollo's movements are smooth and the robot poses for the camera as it snaps a few photos. However, it should be noted that this is a very limited selection space demo that exists for demonstration purposes only. It is not an intelligent, autonomous version of a robot destined for use in factories.
Notably, Apptronik launched factory pilots with Mercedes. In MarchAfter announcing similar deals between Figure and BMW versus Agility and Amazon.