Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
Boston Dynamics Spot
Boston Dynamics · edge
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen3-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5 Core
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
Rig B
Apptronik Apollo
Apptronik · edge
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen3-72B-Instruct (Q4 quant)
- AMD Instinct MI300X
- AMD Instinct MI325X
- AMD Instinct MI355X
- Anthropic Claude Opus 4.7
- Apple Mac Pro (M2 Ultra, 2023)
- Apple Mac Studio (M3 Ultra)
- Apple MacBook Pro 16-inch, M4 Max (2024)
- Apptronik Apollo
- Aurora
- AWS Trainium2
- Boston Dynamics Atlas
- Boston Dynamics Spot
- Cerebras Wafer-Scale Engine 3
- El Capitan
- Figure 02
- Frontier (OLCF-5)
- Google Cloud TPU v5p
- Groq Language Processing Unit
- Intel Gaudi 3 HL-325L
- MSI GeForce RTX 5090 Suprim Liquid
- NVIDIA B100
- NVIDIA B200
- NVIDIA DGX B200
- NVIDIA DGX H200
- NVIDIA DGX Spark
- NVIDIA Eos DGX SuperPOD
- NVIDIA GB200
- NVIDIA GB200 NVL72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founders Edition
- NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper
- NVIDIA H100
- NVIDIA H200
- NVIDIA HGX B200
- NVIDIA Jetson AGX Thor
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell
- OpenAI GPT-5 Core
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
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⇄ swap sides| Spec | Boston Dynamics Spot | Apptronik Apollo |
|---|---|---|
| Payload KG | 14 | 25 |
| Weight KG | 33.8 | 73 |
| Battery Runtime Hours | — | 4 |
| Battery WH | 564 | — |
| Canonical Name | Boston Dynamics Spot | Apptronik Apollo |
| Commercial Release Year | 2,020 | — |
| Deployment Status | commercial | pilot |
| DOF | 12 | — |
| Form factor | quadruped | humanoid |
| FOV Degrees | 360 | — |
| Height CM | — | 173 |
| HOT Swap Battery | — | true |
| IP Rating | IP54 | — |
| Joints PER LEG | 3 | — |
| Legs | 4 | — |
| Length IN | 43.3 | — |
| Length MM | 1,100 | — |
| MAX Slope Degrees | 30 | — |
| MAX Speed M S | 1.6 | — |
| Mercedes Pilot Announced | — | 2024-03-15 |
| Mercedes Pilot Site | — | Berlin-Marienfelde |
| MSRP (USD)↓ better | 74,500 | — |
| Nasa Heritage | — | Valkyrie |
| Operating Temp MAX C | 55 | — |
| Operating Temp MIN C | -20 | — |
| Operating Temp MIN C ABS | 20 | — |
| Payload DC Voltage MAX V | 58.8 | — |
| Payload DC Voltage MIN V | 35 | — |
| Payload LBS | 30.9 | — |
| Payload Power W PER Port | 150 | — |
| Prior Robots | — | 10 |
| Range M | 4 | — |
| Recharge Minutes | 60 | — |
| Runtime Minutes | 90 | — |
| Standing Height MM | 610 | — |
| Step Height MM | 300 | — |
| Vendor | Boston Dynamics | Apptronik |
| Weight LBS | 74.5 | — |
| Width IN | 19.7 | — |
| Width MM | 500 | — |