{"id":185255,"date":"2024-03-16T18:26:56","date_gmt":"2024-03-16T23:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/apollo-humanoid-robots-join-the-mercedes-benz-assembly-line"},"modified":"2024-03-16T18:26:56","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T23:26:56","slug":"apollo-humanoid-robots-join-the-mercedes-benz-assembly-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/apollo-humanoid-robots-join-the-mercedes-benz-assembly-line","title":{"rendered":"Apollo humanoid robots join the Mercedes-Benz assembly line"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pymvNott6nw?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mercedes-Benz has officially employed humanoid robots to complete manual tasks on its assembly line. Apptronik\u2019s Apollo robot will complete simple tasks like fetching and carrying, helping lighten the load for its human colleagues.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prnewswire.com\/news-releases\/apptronik-and-mercedes-benz-enter-commercial-agreement-that-will-pilot-apptroniks-apollo-humanoid-robot-in-mercedes-benz-manufacturing-facilities-302089972.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Announced on Friday<\/a>, March 15, the robots will also be employed to complete other \u201clow skill\u201d tasks like basic assembly. This will free up human workers to focus on more important tasks and reduce the risk of repetitive strain injuries and other health and safety issues related to manual tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mercedes-Benz has officially employed humanoid robots to complete manual tasks on its assembly line. Apptronik\u2019s Apollo robot will complete simple tasks like fetching and carrying, helping lighten the load for its human colleagues. Announced on Friday, March 15, the robots will also be employed to complete other \u201clow skill\u201d tasks like basic assembly. This will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}