NASA’s Apollo Humanoid Robot Will Hit the Market for R$ 240,000: It Could Be Your Work Colleague

Written by Bruno Teles

Published on 16/09/2023 at 21:24

Robô Humanoide Apollo da NASA (Imagem / Reprodução Lewis Walker)

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Meet Apollo, the Humanoid Robot Developed by Apptronik and NASA That Promises to Transform the Industrial Automation Sector Starting in 2024.

Get ready to welcome the future coworker. Developed by Apptronik in partnership with NASA, Apollo is a humanoid robot that promises to change the way we see automation.

With a launch expected in 2024 and a price of around US$ 50,000, it’s already making headlines. In the demonstration video, you can see Apollo in action, performing storage and load manipulation tasks with efficiency and precision.

NASA’s Humanoid Robot Apollo Video / Reproduction Lewis Walker

The Operation and Design of Apollo

Imagine this: a robot nearly 5’8″ tall and 158 lbs eagerly awaiting the next delivery in a warehouse. And don’t think we’re talking about just any machine.

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The Differential of Apollo: Human, But Not Too Much

We really had to find new answers. Apollo had to be more than just a machine; it had to convey emotions, intentions, and above all, be relatable.

Mark Rolston – Industrial Designer and Entrepreneur

The term “relatable” in English is often used to describe something or someone with which people can easily identify. In the context of Mark Rolston’s quote about the Apollo robot, the term suggests that the robot was designed to be easily relatable or understandable for humans.

In other words, even though it is a machine, Apollo has features that make it comprehensible and even familiar to people. This can encompass emotional, functional, or visual aspects.

Apollo and Competition

It’s hard not to compare Apollo with other humanoid robots on the market, such as Elon Musk’s Optimus or Boston Dynamics’ Atlas.

However, Apollo manages to stand out, appearing more like a technological masterpiece than a poorly made science fiction movie character. It redefines many of the clichés we’ve seen in decades of literature and cinema about robots.

Although it is the first functional iteration of an autonomous humanoid worker, Apollo 1 has a promising future. It won’t wash your dishes or work on oil platforms for now, but it has already proven to be a machine capable of operating alongside its human colleagues in an industrial setting. And this is just the beginning.

NASA’s Apollo Humanoid Robot Will Hit the Market for R$ 240,000: It Could Be Your Work Colleague

Meet Apollo, the Humanoid Robot Developed by Apptronik and NASA That Promises to Transform the Industrial Automation Sector Starting in 2024.

The Operation and Design of Apollo

The Differential of Apollo: Human, But Not Too Much

Apollo and Competition

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NASA’s Apollo Humanoid Robot Will Hit the Market for R$ 240,000: It Could Be Your Work Colleague

Meet Apollo, the Humanoid Robot Developed by Apptronik and NASA That Promises to Transform the Industrial Automation Sector Starting in 2024.

The Operation and Design of Apollo

The Differential of Apollo: Human, But Not Too Much

Apollo and Competition

A giant printer called the “Ferrari” of concrete has landed in Latin America and can already build a 120-square-meter house in just 48 hours, making the traditional construction site look like something from the last century.

Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt has ceased to be a climatic phenomenon and has become a biological system that feeds on itself, with 8,000 kilometers in length, 37 million tons of algae, and scientists confirm that it is now permanent.

A British company has installed in the middle of the ocean the world’s first floating platform that generates electricity 24 hours a day from the temperature difference between the surface and the depths of the Atlantic, without relying on wind or sun.

China is building an artificial island in the middle of the sea, covering 20 km², to construct the largest offshore airport in the world, the Dalian Jinzhouwan. This $4.3 billion project is anchored on more than 3,000 pillars embedded in the rock beneath the ocean and is scheduled to open in 2035.

Brazil will harvest a record crop of up to 357 million tons of grains, but it does not have the capacity to store a large part of it. The storage deficit has reached the highest level in history and is equivalent to almost the entire production of Argentina.

Engineers had to pour concrete mixed with tons of ice throughout entire nights in the Dubai desert to erect the Burj Khalifa; any carelessness could clog the pipes half a mile high.

The James Webb telescope spotted a planet 700 light-years from Earth with mornings full of sand clouds and nights with clear skies, the temperature difference between the two hemispheres reaches an impressive 170 degrees.

While the United States and China compete over giant rockets and lunar bases, India made a “spaceplane” land on its own at over 320 km/h after being released by a helicopter at an altitude of 4.5 km; Pushpak shows that New Delhi also wants to enter the era of reusable space vehicles.

Virginia engineers transform 100,000 tons of demolished concrete from the Hampton Roads bridge into artificial reefs in the Chesapeake Bay, turning the debris from a mega-construction project into marine shelter while the old structure was still being dismantled.

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Japan and Mercosur may reach an agreement to lower the cost of cars and auto parts, with manufacturers like Toyota, Honda, and Nissan coming into focus.

Volkswagen is preparing an SUV derived from the new Amarok to compete with the Toyota SW4 and Haval H9, utilize the Argentine Pacheco factory, and transform a pickup into a more profitable family of products.

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