Kevin Cook

Director of Robot Park @Apptronik 🦾 | Previous @CapitalFactory | Buckeye from Columbus | Tweets are my own

[Kevin Cook @TevinTook]

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

[Built In Austin @BuiltInAustin]

From a NASA partnership to a high-dollar funding round, Austin tech companies are continuing to innovate their respective sectors. Catch up on the news you might have missed in the link below. https://t.co/lXKr1V1C2X

[Apptronik @Apptronik]

Welcome to Robot Park, where we’re building the future with Apollo 2. Robot Park is where Apollo learns today, getting the experience needed to make a difference tomorrow.

#Apptronik #Robotics #AI #Humanoids

[Kyle🤖🚀🦭 @KyleMorgenstein]

Also- we’re hiring! The team at Apptronik is world-class and care deeply about building a technology that makes people’s lives better.

Two open listings on the controls team:
- Senior Reinforcement Learning Engineer
- Software Engineer - Human Motion Data
- and more!

[Kevin Cook @TevinTook]

Excited to share more of Robot Park with the world, we've been having fun building and scaling it!

[Kevin Cook @TevinTook]

Happy Halloween from myself and Smokey the Bot! 🤖🐻

[Kevin Cook @TevinTook]

Robot Park is officially live, feeding a continuous funnel of real-world customer use cases straight into our high-fidelity, full-body datasets. This is where Apollo learns true, generalized dexterity.

We aren't just collecting data; we are running the engine of intelligence! 🦾

[Apptronik @Apptronik]

Welcome to Robot Park, where we’re building the future with Apollo 2. Robot Park is where Apollo learns today, getting the experience needed to make a difference tomorrow.

#Apptronik #Robotics #AI #Humanoids

[Kevin Cook @TevinTook]

@SouthwestAir hear me out, what if you led this effort? 🤑 #SouthwestRail

[Hayden @the_transit_guy]

Texas has “4 of the top 10” biggest cities in the country and yet doesn’t have high speed rail that looks like this:

[Kevin Cook @TevinTook]

@adamscochran Thought this was DJ mode

[ABC News @ABC]

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. https://t.co/hwzwfkkLBS

[Apptronik @Apptronik]

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: https://t.co/gjINmD6yb4

[Kevin Cook @TevinTook]

@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

[Kevin Cook @TevinTook]

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

[New York Post @nypost]

Move over, New York and Chicago - a Midwest pizza style is taking over https://t.co/0mhUb6G8iw

[Max @Juicewag]

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

[Kevin Cook @TevinTook]

I heard big things are happening in Austin! Come join us: https://t.co/KxdO4f4c2H 🤖🦾

[Apptronik @Apptronik]

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: https://t.co/uwiAFxivhX
- Explore open roles: https://t.co/xmGrG9IyBS

[Apptronik @Apptronik]

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: https://t.co/uwiAFxivhX
- Explore open roles: https://t.co/xmGrG9IyBS

[Kevin Cook @TevinTook]

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

[Connor Serven Hype Train @IlliniBurner]

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.

[Apptronik @Apptronik]

🌲 ✨ 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! 🎁 🌟

[Apptronik @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

[Harper's Magazine @Harpers]

“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.

https://t.co/ULNl4OHdMi

[Jake O'Shea @jake_oshea]

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.

👇

[Kevin Cook @TevinTook]

Happy Halloween from myself and Smokey the Bot! 🤖🐻

[Apptronik @Apptronik]

Smokey says: "Only YOU can prevent boring costumes." We're out patrolling the robot park this Halloween - keeping our circuits safe and our actuators calibrated.

Have a happy and safe Halloween from all of us at Apptronik! 🤖 🐻 🌲 🎃

#apptronik #ai #humanoid #humanoidrobot #robotics