Side-by-side, with the numbers that matter.
Two rigs, one table. Higher numbers win in cobalt; TDP and price flip.
Rig A
Sanctuary AI Phoenix
Sanctuary AI · edge
Change
- 1X Neo
- Agility Robotics Digit
- Alibaba Qwen2.5-72B-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
- 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
- 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 Qwen2.5-72B-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
- 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
- SambaNova SN40L Reconfigurable Dataflow Unit
- Sanctuary AI Phoenix
- Tesla Optimus
- The Stargate Project
- Unitree B2
- Unitree G1
- Unitree H1
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⇄ swap sidesSanctuary AI PhoenixApptronik Apollo
Height CM
170
173
Payload KG
25
25
Weight KG
70
73
| Spec | Sanctuary AI Phoenix | Apptronik Apollo |
|---|---|---|
| Height CM | 170 | 173 |
| Payload KG | 25 | 25 |
| Weight KG | 70 | 73 |
| AI System | Carbon | — |
| Announced Date | 2023-05-16 | — |
| Apollo2 Unveiled | — | 2026-06-30 |
| Battery Runtime Hours | — | 4 |
| Canonical Name | Sanctuary AI Phoenix | Apptronik Apollo |
| CEO Change Reported | 2026-06-26 | — |
| Deployment Status | pilot-era platform; not currently offered | pilot / data collection |
| Form factor | humanoid | humanoid |
| Generation | 6 | — |
| Hand DOF | 20 | — |
| Height FT IN | 5'7" | — |
| HOT Swap Battery | — | true |
| HQ City | Vancouver | — |
| HQ Country | Canada | — |
| Mercedes Pilot Announced | — | 2024-03-15 |
| Mercedes Stake Reported | — | 2025-03-18 |
| Mercedes Test Sites | — | Berlin-Marienfelde (Digital Factory Campus); Kecskemét, Hungary |
| Nasa Heritage | — | Valkyrie |
| Next Commercial Model | — | Apollo 3 |
| Payload LBS | 55 | — |
| Prior Robots | — | 10 |
| Status Checked | 2026-09-24 | — |
| Strategy Shift | 2026-06-17 | — |
| Unveiled | — | 2023-08-23 |
| Vendor | Sanctuary AI | Apptronik |
| Walking Speed KM H | 4.8 | — |
| Walking Speed MM PER SEC | 1,300 | — |
| Walking Speed MPH | 3 | — |
| Weight LBS | 155 | — |