Designed for presence.
Nova feels “alive” through posture, expressive movement, human-like timing, mental reasoning and fully capable long-term memory.
For something that’s been promised for decades, personal robotics is strangely absent from everyday life. You can buy cheap toys that barely move, or £20,000 humanoids promising the future — but almost nothing in between. Nothing you could actually place on your desk that could see you, talk with you, and feel present in the room.
That gap stuck with me. So I spent six months working long shifts to fund the parts, then nights building prototypes, printing components, and writing code in pursuit of a robot that felt alive.
The early versions fought back constantly — tracking systems trying to twist the neck apart, AI models ignoring their instructions, speech systems interrupting mid-sentence.
When the foundation was finally there, I walked away from the job and committed everything to finishing it.
After months of iteration, late nights, and more failed prints than I could count, the idea finally stabilised into Nova — a desktop robot companion designed to bring personal robotics out of the future and onto your desk.
Nova Totem
Camera: Uses the same camera system as Nova Desktop V3, enabling smooth face tracking and real-time interaction with the user.
Design: With no arms and a minimal structure, Nova Totem focuses purely on presence, conversation, and tracking — delivering the core Nova experience in its simplest form.
Nova Desktop V3
Camera: Newline 4K webcam — 1080p @ 60fps with fast autofocus. Cleaner tracking and better audio.
Nova Desktop V2
Camera: VSPRO high-speed camera — up to 120fps recording. Smoother tracking and more realistic body language.
Nova Desktop V1
Camera: RealSense D455 depth camera. Version 1 only tracked faces, so the D455 was technically overkill but helped define Nova’s iconic look.
