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About Nadia

Nadia is IHMC's hybrid hydraulic-electric biped research humanoid, built with Boardwalk Robotics. Named after gymnast Nadia Comăneci, it offers an exceptional range of motion for disaster response, firefighting and other dangerous indoor tasks.


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Key Specifications

Status
ACTIVE
Category
Humanoid
Verified
2026-09-29
Color
Black
CPU/GPU
N/A
Gear tech
Planetary drives (hip and spine yaw), cycloidal drives (arms)
Motor tech
Hybrid: Moog hydraulic Integrated Smart Actuators (legs, spine) + electric motors (hip/spine yaw, arms)
Height [cm]
190
Main market
Defense, Disaster response, Research
Nationality
US
Availability
Prototype
Connectivity
CAN bus inside the actuators, EtherCAT, Tethered
Manufacturer
IHMC (Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition)
LLM integration
N/A
Max speed (km/h)
3.5
Operating system
IHMC whole-body control software (in-house, open-source robotics software)
Safe with humans
No: a hydraulic research robot for hazardous environments / operates under supervision
Camera resolution
N/A
Number of fingers
2 per gripper
Ingress protection
N/A
Latency glass to action
N/A
Main structural material
Carbon fiber composite shell
Degrees of freedom, hands
2
Runtime pr charge (hours)
N/A
Degrees of freedom, overall
29

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Catalog data · Last verified: 2026-09-29 · Methodology