Boardwalk Robotics · industrial humanoid
Alex
Humanoid torso with head and two arms on a fixed stand for manufacturing and logistics; IHMC is developing it further with US Office of Naval Research backing.
- Price
- —Not published
- Height
- —Not published
- Weight
- 85 kgHeavier than 77%
- Payload
- 10 kgCarries more than 41%
- Speed
- —Not published
- Battery
- —Not published
Not for sale: Research platform, not for sale; boardwalkrobotics.com did not resolve.
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Why it matters
Upper-body humanoid from the builders of IHMC's Nadia; legs planned later.
Real-world use
No customers or deployments reported yet.
Maker
Boardwalk RoboticsCompany · founded 2017How it stacks up
Against other humanoids that publish the figure. Pick a measure.
Alex is heavier than 77% of the 277 other humanoids that publish a weight. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Alex carries more than 41% of the 132 other humanoids that publish a payload. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Alex has more joints than 6% of the 236 other humanoids that publish a joints. Bars show the 7 closest in date.
Not published by the maker: height, speed, battery, price.
What it has been shown doing
2 of 14 skills we track, each from a public video or report. Demos can be staged or remote-controlled; we say so when the source does.
- Kitchen worklaunch video shows it organising and cleaning dishes · Aug 2024 · interestingengineering.com
- Use toolslaunch coverage shows Alex using a sanding tool on carbon fibre · Aug 2024 · spectrum.ieee.org
Not shown yet:SortAssembleFoldFineStairsTerrainGet upRunJumpCarryOn siteAutonomous
Public attention
How much public attention Alex gets, from open data.
- No Wikipedia article of its own yet
- 2 news stories from reputable press listed on this page
Measures how much people read and write about a robot, not how good it is. Measured 2026-10-13; same method for every robot. How it is measured
What’s inside
The parts the company has talked about publicly.
- Movement
- Stationary · 19 joints
- Actuators & motors
- In-house actuators; joints up to 9 rad/s with back-driving torque under 1 Nm.
- Hands
- End-effector agnostic; new grippers for faster tool changes planned; wrists with 300-degree range.
- Sensors & vision
- Not published.
- Compute
- Not published.
- Battery & power
- Not published.
- AI & software
- Manipulation first; future legs to use IHMC's locomotion stack.
- Other details
- Legless upper torso on a pedestal or mobile base; 19 DoF; 10 kg continuous payload.
From the maker
Alex is the only humanoid from Boardwalk Robotics in the atlas.
Watch Alex
Made, sold and where
Unit counts are usually company figures; analysts often disagree.
- Price
- Not published
- How to get one
- Not for saleResearch platform, not for sale; boardwalkrobotics.com did not resolve.
- Sold or delivered
- Available to researchers for purchase; pilot programmes with select customers.
- Where it is sold or used
- United States
News
The latest 2, newest first. Summaries are ours; tap through for the original.
- Alex lifts dumbbells and does dishes
Interesting Engineering covered Alex's 19-DoF upper body.
Interesting Engineering - Boardwalk introduces Alex
IEEE Spectrum reported pilots in logistics, food processing and aviation.
IEEE Spectrum
Side by side with its peers
Picked by the same rules for every humanoid: another maker’s robot that moves the same way, is at the same stage and does at least one of the same main jobs, first shown within two years. Closer size and price rank higher. Few robots match closely, so these are the nearest matches. How we choose
| Measure | AlexBoardwalk Robotics |  GeorgeBlogic (Business Logic s.r.o.)Same jobs: industrial, logistics · Both fixed in place · Both in development |
|---|---|---|
| First shown | 2024-08-22 | 2025-12 |
| Status | Prototype | Prototype |
| Height | — | — |
| Weight | 85 kg | — |
| Joints | 19 | — |
| Speed | — | — |
| Payload | 10 kg | — |
| Battery | — | — |
| Price | — | — |
Sources
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