novo
\ ˈnoʊ-voʊ \verb, transitive·Latin
1:to make new; to renew; to refresh.
the layer§ 02
We built
the layer
everyone
missed.
We are a deep-tech company building the data infrastructure that lets robots learn contact-rich manipulation from human operators. Building toward the first deployable robot cells that can be retrained by your own factory workers, on whatever robot brand you already trust.
what we build§ 01
Robot cells your factory workers can teach.
We deploy autonomous manipulation systems onto our customers' existing robot infrastructure. We bring the biological-signal capture rig, the training pipeline, the deployed policy, the safety supervisor, and the integration software. Customers bring the robots they already trust.
Traditional integratorNovonusAdvantage
// 01
Deployment time
Traditional
8-16 weeks
Novonus
2-4 weeks
Advantage
4× faster
// 02
Programming labor
Traditional
40-200 hours expert work
Novonus
1-3 days operator demos
Advantage
Removes engineers
// 03
Reprogramming cost
Traditional
$20K-$40K per change
Novonus
Operator's time
Advantage
Near-zero
// 04
Contact-rich tasks
Traditional
Often fail outright
Novonus
Designed for
Advantage
Solves the gap
the pipeline01 — 05
Five steps from human demonstration to deployed robot.
Signal acquisitionactive
CAPTURE
Operator wears rig. Sensors record everything.
Data refinementactive
PROCESS
Raw signals become clean, labeled training data.
Synthetic expansionactive
AUGMENT
Real demos become 100× synthetic variations.
Force-aware learningactive
TRAIN
Multimodal AI learns force-aware control.
Edge inferenceactive
DEPLOY
Edge inference with continuous retraining.
The capture step turns biology into data. The processing step turns data into training samples. The augmentation step multiplies samples through physics simulation. The training step turns samples into policy. The deployment step runs policy in production while feeding new data back to the start. Robots inherit human force intuition. By us.
// the body knew before contact ever happened
system: novonus™stages: 05status: operational
the evidence§ 03
Peer-reviewed. Quantified. Settled.
Every claim we make about contact-rich manipulation is backed by published research. The science is settled. The remaining question is who builds the deployed product.
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Success rate improvement
Force-aware imitation learning over vision-only on contact-rich tasks.
ForceMimic, IROS 2024
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Faster execution
Bio-signal augmented teleoperation over traditional methods.
Intelligence & Robotics, 2026
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Intent recognition
LSTM-based motion intention recognition accuracy under 10ms latency.
Intelligence & Robotics, 2026
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Robots installed
Industrial robots installed globally in 2024. Demand growing.
World Robotics 2025 Report, IFR
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Cite labor shortage
Manufacturing executives identify skilled-labor shortage as top challenge in 2026.
CADDi 2026 Manufacturing Outlook Study
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Better precision
Improvement in placement accuracy on contact-rich assembly.
Intelligence & Robotics, 2026
Introducing
novo·nus
|\ ˈnoʊ-voʊ-nəs \noun·[Latin novāre + Ancient Greek νοῦς]
nous
\ ˈnuːs \νοῦςnoun, masculine·Ancient Greek
1:the mind; the intellect; the faculty by which one apprehends.
1:the making of a new mind.
because that’s what we help robots do.