Facts

• Company: Boardwalk Robotics
• Product type: Semi Humanoid
• Status: available
• Capability focus: Manipulation

Profile sections

• Summary
• Overview
• Market context
• Audience
• Workflow
• Capability
• Deployment environment
• Positioning tags
• Specifications
• Tags
• Articles
• Timeline / Research
• Operations Claims / Customers and deployments
• Comparable Systems
• Sources

Summary

Alex is Boardwalk Robotics humanoid robot for industrial work. It is designed for manufacturing, food processing, maintenance and logistics tasks, using a stable mobile base and human-like upper body rather than a legged humanoid form.

Overview

Alex is Boardwalk Robotics humanoid robot for industrial work. It is designed for manufacturing, food processing, maintenance and logistics tasks, using a stable mobile base and human-like upper body rather than a legged humanoid form.

Market context

Alex is Boardwalk Robotics' manipulation-first humanoid platform: an upper-torso robot with high-speed arms, stable-base operation and optional mobile-base mounting for industrial and research workflows.

• Target environment: Research labs, industrial pilot cells, logistics/manufacturing environments and aviation-maintenance style workflows where manipulation matters more than biped locomotion.
• Workflow context: Human-adjacent manipulation workflow: use a stable base or mobile base, pair high-speed dual-arm movement with vision/force sensing, and adapt end effectors or lower-body configur…
• Customer context: Research buyers, industrial automation teams and pilot customers evaluating humanoid manipulation without the cost and fall-risk profile of full biped platforms.
• Deployment model: Research purchase and select commercial-pilot posture before Boardwalk was acquired by Foundation Robotics and Alex was renamed Phantom.
• Commercial maturity: Early commercial/research platform with public technical specs and at least one research procurement signal.
• Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on integration effort, task-specific tooling, reliability in production settings, safety validation and whether a fixed/mobile-base manipulator is enough for the…
• Market position: Important as a non-biped humanoid strategy: Alex keeps humanoid manipulation but avoids treating legs as mandatory for near-term industrial use.
• Adjacent products: Foundation Robotics Phantom, Apptronik Apollo upper-body workflows, Sanctuary AI Phoenix manipulation, industrial mobile manipulators

Audience

Factories

Workflow

Human-adjacent manipulation workflow: use a stable base or mobile base, pair high-speed dual-arm movement with vision/force sensing, and adapt end effectors or lower-body configuration to the task.

Capability

manipulation

Deployment environment

Research labs, industrial pilot cells, logistics/manufacturing environments and aviation-maintenance style workflows where manipulation matters more than biped locomotion.

Positioning tags

• Audience: Factories
• Workflow: Human-adjacent manipulation workflow: use a stable base or mobile base, pair high-speed dual-arm movement with vision/force sensing, and adapt end effectors or lower-body configuration to the task.
• Capability: manipulation
• Deployment environment: Research labs, industrial pilot cells, logistics/manufacturing environments and aviation-maintenance style workflows where manipulation matters more than biped locomotion.

Specifications

• Total Dof: 19 DoF
• Payload Kg: 10 kg
• Control: Custom in-house actuators; 9 rad/s joint speed; 300 deg wrist rotation; less than 1 Nm backdriving torque
• Sensors Summary: Vision and force sensors
• Structure: Upper-torso humanoid manipulation platform; no legs in initial commercial version
• Mobility: Stationary pedestal or autonomous mobile robotic base
• Availability: Research purchase and select commercial pilots

Tags

• Peer Group: Industrial manipulation system
• Workflow: Warehouse material handling, Box handling
• Capability: Force control
• Deployment Environment: Warehouse environment, Industrial facility
• Stack Layer: Finished robot platform

Articles

• 2024-08-22 - Article - Boardwalk Robotics is turning upper-body humanoid manipulation into an industrial pilot layer

Timeline / Research

• 2025-11-19 - Capability - IHMC presents next-generation Alex humanoid research platform for out-of-lab testing - IHMC said Alex is a multi-year, multimillion-dollar humanoid project funded through the Office of Naval Re…
• 2024-08-22 - Product Launch - Boardwalk Robotics launches Alex manipulation-focused humanoid platform - Boardwalk introduced Alex as a commercial upper-torso humanoid built for manufacturing, logistics, food processing,…
• 2024-02-20 - Contract Award - National Robotarium contracts Boardwalk Robotics for Alex Manipulation Platform - The National Robotarium concluded a contract with Boardwalk Robotics for an Alex Manipulation Platform for…

Operations Claims / Customers and deployments

• Alex Platform Contract Status - Alex Manipulation Platform contract - 2024-02-20 - National Robotarium - mobile manipulation research platform - The National Robotarium contracted Boardwalk Robotics for the Alex Manipul…

Comparable Systems

• JAKA K-1 - JAKA Robotics Co., Ltd. - Humanoid
• Pixmo - Anyware Robotics - Mobile Manipulator
• Tiankui 1 - Tetrabot - Semi Humanoid
• PR-OMNI - Perceptyne - Semi Humanoid
• Walker C - UBTECH Robotics - Humanoid Platform
• Gino 1 - Geek+ - Mobile Manipulator