Kevin Cook

Some of my coworkers are robots 🤖🦾 @Apptronik #Robotics

Elon Musk’s DOGE “blatantly used” race, gender and other protected characteristics to execute the largest mass termination of federal grants in the history of the National Endowment for the Humanities, a federal judge ruled on Thursday. abcnews.link/kfJxWVn

Assembling the Leadership to Power the Next Generation of Humanoid Robots To bring humanoid robots 🤖 like #Apollo into everyday use, you need more than great technology: you need leaders who have scaled it before. As we prepare for our next phase of growth, we’ve bolstered our executive bench with veterans from the world’s most innovative tech giants like Waymo, Boston Dynamics, and Amazon. Read more in @Forbes: forbes.com/sites/johnkoet…

@Donatos let’s talk about opening a spot in Austin, TX. Or get me that Red Robin hook up I see in other cities lol

You ain’t been to Columbus? I thought you were cultured…

Yup. Columbus pizza is the best in the country, people just don’t know it yet.

I heard big things are happening in Austin! Come join us: apptronik.com/careers 🤖🦾

Today, we’re excited to announce that we’ve raised more than $935M in Series A funding with a $520M Series A-X extension round, bringing our total capital raised to nearly $1B. This milestone is a powerful vote of confidence in our mission: building AI-powered humanoid robots designed to work alongside humans. With this new funding, we’ll be able to: - Ramp production of #Apollo - Expand global commercial and pilot deployments - Build next-generation facilities for robot training and data collection - Accelerate real-world impact across manufacturing, logistics, and beyond We’re proud to be backed by an incredible group of repeat and new investors, including @BCapitalGroup, @Google, @MercedesBenz, @ATT Ventures, @JohnDeere, QIA, and more. The future of embodied #AI is happening now, and Apollo is just the beginning. - Read the full announcement: apptronik.com/news-collectio… - Explore open roles: apptronik.com/careers

@ReevesCanon Congrats to the @pipedream_labs team! This is awesome, can’t wait to visit!

We've built a first of its kind grocery store in Austin. Introducing Goods➡️

There is a 100% overlap between traditional Big Ten states and the true Midwest. The Plains are not the Midwest. Missouri is not the Midwest just because the south doesn’t want them. Stop treating the Midwest like a catch-all.

🌲 ✨ Happy Holidays! ✨ 🌲 This season, we’re celebrating the joy of giving, the power of teamwork, and a future where technology helps us do more of what matters most. Even Santa needed a helping hand this year 🎅 🤖 and watching Apollo pack gifts reminds us that innovation isn’t just about efficiency, it’s about enabling people, spreading joy, and creating a little holiday magic along the way. Wishing our customers, partners, and community a joyful holiday season and a bright, exciting year ahead. Happy Holidays from all of us at Apptronik! 🎁 🌟

✨ Incredible progress from @GoogleDeepMind on open-ended robot reasoning, featuring Apollo!  Check out Apollo responding to complex instructions and adapting to changing contexts with @FryRsquared

“Musk has said he believes ‘we’re headed to a radically different world’ with humanoids, but the extent of the change—and who it will benefit—is far from clear.” @jjvincent on humanoids and the tech-­industry hype machine. harpers.org/archive/2025/1…

We're baaaack! Excited to share that @aitxcommunity and @NVIDIAAIDev are teaming up for another Austin AI Hackathon. From Dec 12th-14th, 25 teams of engineers, researchers, and builders will spend the weekend pushing NVIDIA’s new DGX Spark Computers to their limits. 👇

Happy Halloween from myself and Smokey the Bot! 🤖🐻

Sorry to hear about Meta layoffs, not cool. We are committed to advancing #Robotics at @GoogleDeepMind . Let's transform #Robotics together. Ping me! 🤖💕

🎯 A major milestone on the road to embodied intelligence. This week, @GoogleDeepMind's Gemini Robotics VLA reaches an important milestone in our joint mission to bring AGI into the physical world. By introducing agentic capabilities - the ability to reason, plan, actively use tools, and generalize - we’re moving beyond reactive models and into a new era of robotic autonomy. We’re proud to be collaborating on Gemini Robotics 1.5 with Google as we gear up to deploy Gemini-powered Apollo humanoid robots in additional customer facilities. It’s a critical step in transforming a powerful model into a field-ready system that performs with consistency, reliability, and purpose. Read the blog: deepmind.google/discover/blog/… #apptronik #humanoid #humanoidrobot #robotics #google #deepmind #geminirobotics

We’re making robots more capable than ever in the physical world. 🤖 Gemini Robotics 1.5 is a levelled up agentic system that can reason better, plan ahead, use digital tools such as @Google Search, interact with humans and much more. Here’s how it works 🧵

Humans are toolmakers. We build tools to help us do more with less. We have built Apollo to dramatically improve the way we live and work. But Apollo is not the only groundbreaking creation born from our labs. Our teams have been quietly building a new kind of machine - a machine with superhuman capabilities. This is not just automation, this is power, redefined. Introducing @ElevateRobotics, a wholly owned subsidiary of Apptronik, focused on superhuman industrial automation.

This video is so disturbing. I’ve always considered myself pro-Israel. But if that now means arresting, jailing, and deporting someone whose only “crime” we know of was writing a pro-Palestine op-ed, then count me out. I want nothing to do with that.

Meet Gemini Robotics: our latest AI models designed for a new generation of helpful robots. 🤖 Based on Gemini 2.0, they bring capabilities such as better reasoning, interactivity, dexterity and generalization into the physical world. 🧵 goo.gle/gemini2-roboti…