The U.S. Army has picked five winners in a competition to test how commercial humanoid robots could be used by the military, including a two-legged robot called Alex that is built to take hits and carries ballistic protection. The Army announced the xTechHumanoid winners on Sept. 11, two days after nine finalists demonstrated their technology […]
The US Army has selected five humanoid robot technologies from 103 submitted ideas for further testing. The most notable of these is Alex, a humanoid robot developed by the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC).