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Meet Boardwalk Robotics' Addition to Humanoid Robots

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Boardwalk Robotics is releasing Alex , a humanoid upper torso designed to work in manufacturing, logistics, and maintenance.

The first thing you’ll notice about Alex is that it doesn’t have legs, at least for now.

Boardwalk is a commercial partner with IHMC , the Institute for Human Machine Cognition in Pensacola , Florida .

Alex is available for researchers to purchase for research purposes, but Boardwalk will be selling Alex as a commercial robot.

Boardwalk is currently selecting commercial partners for a few more pilots.

The robot is available for researchers and for commercial partners.

Boardwalk hopes to educate customers on how this could be implemented in their world.

The Alex robot is currently available to researchers and is being piloted by Boardwalk .

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