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About Boardwalk Robotics

Boardwalk Robotics is a Pensacola, Florida company that develops humanoid robots for commercial work, growing out of a close collaboration with the Institute for Human & Machine Cognition (IHMC), the Florida research institute known for bipedal robotics. Boardwalk acted as IHMC’s commercial build partner — most visibly on Nadia, IHMC’s research humanoid — before launching its own commercial robot, Alex, in August 2024. Alex is a legless humanoid upper torso with 19 degrees of freedom, high-speed joints (9 rad/s), high-range-of-motion wrists and a 10 kg continuous payload, designed for manufacturing, logistics and maintenance tasks such as package sorting, unloading irregular cargo and aircraft sustainment; its actuators are designed in-house, and the platform is end-effector and lower-body agnostic.

The company sells research units — an Alex manipulation platform was supplied to the UK’s National Robotarium — and runs commercial pilot programmes, with a longer-term ambition to move to a service model. Boardwalk also performs US government research and development, including an Air Force SBIR programme to develop the Hephaestus humanoid for depot-level sustainment tasks. One secondary source reports that the company was acquired by Foundation Robotics in late 2024; this could not be confirmed from any official source and is flagged in the verification line below.

Products & services

• Alex — legless humanoid upper-torso robot (19 DoF) for manufacturing, logistics and maintenance, sold as research units and through commercial pilot programmes
• Alex Manipulation Platform — dual-arm research configuration with spine, head, perception sensors and grippers
• Humanoid robot design and build services, developed with IHMC (including build work on the Nadia research humanoid)
• Government R&D programmes, including the Hephaestus humanoid for US Air Force sustainment tasks

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