Side portrait of the Somnia humanoid
[ who we are ]

Somnia Lab

We pioneer intimacy robotics.

We build and refine the Love Machine — a robotic companion that feels truly alive. Getting her right means cracking the hardest, most human problems in robotics: high biofidelity, a mind that understands you, and the way people and machines connect.

Somnia is Latin for dream. This is where human–machine symbiosis begins — and we’re building it first.

Close view of the humanoid shoulder joint and synthetic skin
[ why intimacy ]

What cannot be faked

A machine can pass every benchmark and still fail the moment it has to be close to a person.

Closeness asks for everything at once: a body that is felt, a mind that remembers, the judgment to know when to reach and when to hold back. None of it can be approximated, and the person on the other side feels every flaw.

We begin here by conviction, not convenience. Closeness is the one thing technology has never learned to give — and the truest measure of whether a machine can hold a place in a human life. Master it, and the rest of the field follows.

Portrait of the Somnia humanoid
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