Designing Apollo, an Approachable Humanoid Robot

Mar 11, 2024

11:30am – 12:30pm CT

How do you inject humanity into a humanoid robot that is essentially industrial equipment, to produce a distinct design that is safe, friendly, intelligent, and capable? NASA-backed Apptronik tasked argodesign with this challenge, to create the final form of its Apollo robot. Join a fireside chat between two companies who worked closely together to pioneer a robot form that uniquely balances complexity and approachability. This session will go beyond the marketing speak to focus on the very hard challenges designers and engineers face in designing a humanoid robot.

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Carla Cook

argodesign

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Patrick Marsh

argodesign

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Nick Paine

Apptronik, Inc.

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