Nadia
Nadia is a humanoid developed by the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition with Boardwalk Robotics for research in whole-body teleoperation and dynamic walking. It follows IHMC's long involvement with Atlas and Valkyrie in the DARPA Robotics Challenge.
We have not sat down with this one. The score below is computed from the data we hold, and the facts on this page are sourced. It is not on sale, so there is nothing to recommend.
How the score is built
Capability is what the machine physically does. Value compares it with others at a similar price, not with the whole market. Buyability asks whether you can really order one. Ecosystem is the software and community around it. Proof is what it has done in the field, which is where most humanoids score badly and should.
What people buy instead.
- Status
- Research
- Category
- research
- First revealed
- 2022
- Form
- bipedal
- Height
- n/a
- Weight
- n/a
- Payload
- n/a
- Degrees of freedom
- n/a
- Battery
- n/a
- Runtime
- n/a
- Walking speed
- n/a
- Actuation
- electric with some hydraulic joints
- Units deployed (est.)
- not disclosed
- Teleoperation
- yes
Where it stands
Research humanoid at IHMC, built with Boardwalk Robotics; used for teleoperation and locomotion research.
What stands out
- IHMC and Boardwalk Robotics
- VR teleoperation research
Autonomy, observed
Videos show walking, stair climbing and teleoperated manipulation; IHMC reports autonomous footstep planning
Designed for immersive VR teleoperation with shared autonomy
Hands, sensors, brain
- Hands: interchangeable grippers and hands
- Sensors: stereo cameras, lidar, IMU
- Compute: onboard computers
- AI stack: IHMC whole body control software, VR teleoperation
Price and volume
research platform
How a humanoid robot works: actuators, compute, sensors and the model
Of 182 humanoids on record, 178 say what moves the joints and 43 say what computer is inside. The further a layer sits from the metal, the less the maker tells you about it.
Open-source humanoids: what you can actually build
24 of the 182 humanoids on record call themselves open source. 15 publish hardware files and software, 3 name a licence, 12 can be ordered, and none of the four on preorder has any autonomy evidence yet.
Sources
- 01IHMC RoboticsIHMC
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