Project

Astra

Astra represents one of Apptronik’s most important upper-body humanoid platforms and a direct bridge toward Apollo’s manipulation and interaction capabilities. Designed to operate with and around humans, Astra helped Apptronik refine how a robot can use compact actuation, coordinated upper-body motion, and human-aware design to perform tasks in shared environments. The platform brought together lessons in manipulation, perception, and control, showing how humanoid robots could begin to perform practical work with their arms and hands. Those insights helped inform Apollo’s ability to operate as a more complete humanoid system.