Nerva
A wristband that reads the signal your muscles fire before your hand moves.
The missing channel
A camera tells you where a hand went. It can’t tell you how hard it squeezed, or when it decided to move. Electromyography can. Train on video and a robot learns the shape of a grasp, never its strength.
Eight channels at the wrist. Every burst arrives about 80 ms before the movement it causes.
No gel, no prep. It goes on like a watch.
Every joint in the hand, solved from the wrist.
Nothing between the hand and what it holds.
For robotics teams
Every hour of demonstration data costs an operator, a rig, and a robot standing still. That is why manipulation datasets are still counted in thousands of hours.
Nerva records people already doing the work, and retargets onto your embodiment through one kinematic representation, with the force channel attached.
Selecting launch partners now.
Where this goes
The hand is where human dexterity concentrates, so it is where we start. What we are building is a model of how a body solves physical problems, trained on people solving real ones.
For skilled hands
Surgeons, machinists, cooks, luthiers. Decades of motor learning that exists nowhere outside your body. Wear a band through a normal day and it becomes a record you own and license on your terms.
First units go to a small group. If you work with your hands, tell us what you do.