Kova Dynamics King, Ontario
Built tough.
Coded smart.
A robotics and software company from King, Ontario. We design humanoid robots and the hands they work with, and we write software that runs on very little.
Platforms
What Kova makes.
A humanoid robot, the hand it uses, and software for the calculator in your backpack.
Kova K2
A 2.16 m industrial-style humanoid with a hot-swap battery, an armoured torso and 30 body joints.
- 2,156 mmheight
- 30body DOF
- ≈2.9 kWhbattery
AGI Hand v2
A tendon-driven hand with six servos in the wrist. It's the hand Kova K2 uses.
- 15articulations
- 6motions
CalcXOur TI-84 Plus CE game hub: a new home screen, tools and seven games. Snake is free.
calcx.store
Kova K2
Tall, armoured, hot-swappable.
Industrial actuators at the hips and knees, three swap-out battery cartridges in the chest and abdomen, and a Jetson Thor-class computer behind the armour. Every joint moves in the browser simulator.
The name
Kova means hard.
In Finnish, kova means hard and tough. In Slavic languages the root kov- is about metal and forging. Hard material, shaped on purpose: that's the brief for everything we make.
- kova
- Finnish · adjectivehard; tough
- kov
- Czech · nounmetal
- kovati
- Serbo-Croatian · verbto forge
Now / Next
Where things stand.
Now
- CalcX is live at calcx.store.
- Kova K2 platform design and simulator.
- AGI Hand v2 design and simulator.
Next
- More software from the CalcX side of the house.
- Deeper K2 simulation.
Lab
Experiments, in the open.
Smaller projects that aren't products yet. Some will become one, most won't, and none of them are promises. When something works, it shows up here.
Contact
Write to us.
One inbox for everything: CalcX support, the robots and anything else Kova.
Kova Dynamics was founded by a high-school student in King, Ontario.