Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC)
Research institute behind the Nadia and Alex humanoid robots
- US Army names IHMC's Alex humanoid and four component makers as xTechHumanoid winners
The U.S. Army has named five winners of its xTechHumanoid competition after final demonstrations at Marine Corps Base Quantico, and only one of them, IHMC's Alex, is a complete humanoid robot. The other four supply power, touch sensing and command software, a mix that shows where the Army sees the bottlenecks in military humanoids.
Subject - Singapore opens a humanoid robot centre for police and emergency work, aiming to put a robot beside officers by 2028
Singapore's Ministry of Home Affairs opened the Home Team Humanoid Robotics Centre (H2RC) on Sept. 30, 2026, with the goal of having a humanoid robot working alongside officers in a real operational setting by 2028. Run by the agency HTX and backed by a S$100 million commitment announced in 2025, the centre will work with ST Engineering on robot platforms and with Singtel's RE:AI on computing.
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