Nova: a $2,490 desk-sized 20-DoF robot built to break your sim-to-real policies
AIFlow_ML · x · 2026-10-24
AIFlowML shared the specs of Nova, a desk-sized robot: 49.7 cm tall, 2.8 kg, 20 DoF, 10 TOPS, 8 GB RAM, walking at 0.1 m/s, priced at $2,490.
- Positioned not as a chore robot but as a physical platform designed to make sim-to-real policies fail in the real world
- The team is also surveying robot builders on whether hardware, training, or data is the biggest time sink, with results to be shared at ROBOTFLOW LABS
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