# US Army announces five winning projects in xTechHumanoid competition to explore battlefield uses of humanoid robots

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- Published: 2026-10-16T01:00:00.000Z
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## Summary

The US Army announced five winning projects in the xTechHumanoid competition, exploring how humanoid robots could be used in future military operations; the competition received 103 proposals. The winning projects involve two different power systems, fingertip tactile sensors, software, and the humanoid robot Alex developed by the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition, which uses custom high-backdrivability quasi-direct-drive actuators and has 29 joints; the US Army specifically noted its ballistic protection capability and its hybrid autonomous system combining AI with human control.