01 · Concept
Why it should exist
Loneliness is a measured health problem. Chatbots talk and cannot touch; dolls can be touched and cannot answer. Nobody can hold your hand.
02 · Results
What was measured
A 25-DOF model at 66.228 kg, 24 test modules, thermal analysis of the critical joint. Reproducible on Windows and Linux, to the last digit.
03 · Findings
What was learned
Three results worth an engineer's time, and eight rules of method that came out of finding our own mistakes.
TX-34 NOVA
A metal endoskeleton built to be repaired, wrapped in a compliant skin built to be touched. 66.23 kg, 1.55 m, 25 actuated joints in the walking chain, on catalogue actuators — no custom drives, no proprietary tooling.
She is not a shell with a chatbot in it. She runs her own model on her own hardware, keeps a continuous episodic memory, and changes with the person she lives with. Nothing leaves the machine.
Design concept — artistic rendering. No physical prototype has been built. The figures below come from the public simulation campaign.
66.23 kg
Mass
25 / 80
DOF locomotion / platform
98.7 J
Per step
10 years
Orderable spares
Every figure reproducible in ten minutes — github.com/SynthMike34/nova-sim
