Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition with Boardwalk Robotics
IHMC is a not-for-profit research institute of Florida's State University System, founded in 1990 at the University of West Florida, with a second site in Ocala. Its robotics group (led by Robert Griffin) placed second at the 2015 DARPA Robotics Challenge and built the Nadia humanoid with partners including Boardwalk Robotics, followed by Alex.
- Robot models in the atlas
- 22 humanoids
- First robot
- 2023Latest 2025
- Headquarters
- PensacolaFlorida, United States
- Can I buy one?Not on sale yetPrototype, pilot or research robots only
- Who uses it?2 robot models in useDemonstrated publicly, including shadow boxing, at IHMC's Pensacola open house in April…
- What is new?2026-05-21IHMC's successor humanoid Alex walks untethered for ONR
Robots
2 robot models shown in public, from 2023 to 2025. Newest first. Open one for its full profile.
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Who uses it
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Alex2025 · ResearchDemonstrated publicly, including shadow boxing, at IHMC's Pensacola open house in April 2026.
Nadia2023 · ResearchShown sparring with a person under VR teleoperation in December 2023.
What is new
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The company
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- Founded
- 1990
- Headquarters
- Pensacola, Florida, United States
- Focus
- humanoids and exoskeletons for dangerous work such as disaster response, firefighting and military operations
- Funding
- federal research grants (ONR, ARL, DARPA, NASA, NSF and others); ONR multi-year contract for Alex; 501(c)(3) non-profit
- Partners
- Office of Naval Research, Army Research Laboratory, NASA Johnson Space Center, TARDEC, Moog (actuators), Boardwalk Robotics, Morfey Ltd, H4 Labs
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