IHMC (Institute for Human & Machine Cognition)

IHMC, the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, is a not-for-profit research institute in Pensacola, Florida, part of the Florida University System, with more than twenty years of humanoid research.

Its platforms are the hybrid hydraulic-electric Nadia, built with Boardwalk Robotics and now treated as legacy, and the fully electric successor Alex with 29 joints and custom quasi-direct-drive actuators. Funding comes from the Office of Naval Research, the Army Research Laboratory, NASA's Johnson Space Center and TARDEC, among others.

The institute accepts purchase enquiries through a dedicated sales address but publishes no prices.