Mercedes-Benz has announced a partnership to look into using humanoid robots to automate certain tasks in their manufacturing facilities. 

They've tagged robotics company Apptronik to figure out how their Apollo robot can be used to bring parts to production line workers to be assembled, inspect components, and deliver kits after they're put together. 

Apollo is a humanoid robot roughly five feet and eight inches tall, weighing 160 pounds and able to carry up to 55 pounds at a time. It's designed to work in warehouses and manufacturing plants, with plans to expand into other industries like construction, retail, home delivery, and more. 

The hope from Mercedes-Benz is that the robot could help in "automating some physically demanding, repetitive and dull tasks for which it is increasingly hard to find reliable workers," Mercedes-Benz and Apptronik said in a joint release March 15. 

"When we set out to build Apollo, an agreement like the one we're announcing today with Mercedes-Benz was a dream scenario," Apollo co-founder and CEO Jeff Cardenas said. "Mercedes plans to use robotics and Apollo for automating some low skill, physically challenging, manual labor — a model use case which we'll see other organizations replicate in the months and years to come."