Guillermo Castillo M

PhD student in Electrical Engineering @OhioState.

[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

[Guillermo Castillo M @castillom90]

@ChenTessler @KyleMorgenstein @AlecSaysThings Also, try to optimize your USD models as much as possible. Removing unnecessary meshes, bodies and sites can give you small wins in memory that pay of when you scale up to many envs.

[Guillermo Castillo M @castillom90]

@ChenTessler @KyleMorgenstein @AlecSaysThings Not sure about your setup, but it seems that when enabling the default rendering, IsaacLab allocates memory for the meshes of all the envs. Using headless with no video and a separate subprocess for video checkpoint avoids that extra VRAM usage.

[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]

✨ 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

[Apptronik @Apptronik]

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.

[Apptronik @Apptronik]

We've just closed an oversubscribed $403 million Series A, and are thrilled to announce additional investors including @MercedesBenz , Japan Post Capital, RyderVentures (the corporate venture capital arm of @RyderSystemInc ), @ARKInvest & more. We look forward to building #embodiedAI together!

Read more here: https://t.co/Ya6oGqrCjY

[Google DeepMind @GoogleDeepMind]

We're partnering with @Apptronik to build the next generation of humanoid robots with Gemini 2.0 - and opening our Gemini Robotics-ER model to trusted testers such as Agile Robots, @AgilityRobotics, @BostonDynamics and @EnchantedTools.

Find out more → https://t.co/EXRJrmxGxl

[Apptronik @Apptronik]

It’s a big day at Apptronik! Today, we announced a $350M Series A funding round, co-led by @BCapitalGroup and @CapitalFactory, with participation from @Google. This pivotal moment will fuel the deployment of Apollo, allow us to scale our operations, and get us one step closer to meeting global demand for humanoid robots.

https://t.co/VpmCxbgQom

[Apptronik @Apptronik]

Huge news - we've joined forces with @GoogleDeepMind's robotics team!🧠🦾 We’ll combine best-in-class #AI with cutting-edge robotics hardware to create advanced AI-powered humanoid robots. Get ready for a new era of helpful robots in dynamic environments.

https://t.co/VnTeFqhHmw

#apptronik #humanoid #humanoidrobot #robotics

[RSS Pioneers @RSSPioneers]

Here is our incredible cohort of Pioneers! #RSS2024 #RSSPioneers2024

[RSS Pioneers @RSSPioneers]

Happy Friday, robotics researchers!

We are 2 weeks away from the #RSSPioneers2024 workshop! Research statements for this year's cohort are available online: https://t.co/Y4QTVDlWER. We will announce our speakers in the coming weeks – stay tuned!

#RSSPioneers #RSS2024

[RSS Pioneers @RSSPioneers]

We're excited to see the buzz around our #RSSPioneers2024 cohort! We'd like to share some statistics about this year's group. 📊

See more details below! 🧵👇

[Guillermo Castillo M @castillom90]

@lijecaru Thanks for all your support my love. You are the best ❤️

[Guillermo Castillo M @castillom90]

I'm delighted to share that I have been selected to join the #RSSPioneers2024 cohort. This is a great opportunity to connect with talented young researchers from both industry and academia. I am looking forward to the collaborations and learning experiences that lie ahead!

[RSS Pioneers @RSSPioneers]

We are thrilled to announce our #RSSPioneers2024 cohort! 🎉https://t.co/RWsInhyYPP

Congratulations to these 30 rising stars in robotics! We thank all of our applicants for their inspiring submissions, and our selection committee and reviewers for their participation and insight.

[Guillermo Castillo M @castillom90]

@lijecaru @RSSPioneers Thank you @lijecaru 😊

[Guillermo Castillo M @castillom90]

@carohiguerarias @RSSPioneers Thank you @carohiguerarias!

[Guillermo Castillo M @castillom90]

@zhengyiluo I had the same experience 😂

[Nathan Boyd 🐙 @servo_boyd]

We now have full end-to-end manipulation autonomy for more complicated tasks.

Here's a demonstration of Apollo leveraging AI to make a fresh cup of juice in an end-to-end manner for #GTC2024.

A thread 🧵