Event
Boardwalk Robotics launches Alex manipulation-focused humanoid platform
Key points
- Boardwalk introduced Alex as a commercial upper-torso humanoid built for manufacturing, logistics, food processing, and maintenance work.
- The system was developed in-house from the company's IHMC-linked humanoid lineage, with manipulation prioritized ahead of adding legs.
- Researchers could buy Alex immediately, while Boardwalk said commercial pilots were underway with one of the earliest pilots in aviation.
Company context
Boardwalk Robotics develops humanoid robotic systems with roots in the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition long-running humanoid research program. The company collaborated with IHMC on the Nadia research platform before announcing Alex as a commercial manipulation-first humanoid upper-torso robot for manufacturing, logistics, food processing and maintenance.
Context
- Company
- Boardwalk Robotics
- Segment
- Humanoid
- Event type
- Product Launch
- Geography
- Pensacola, Florida · United States