SONA

SOCIAL ROBOTICS

Technology thatmoves like itbelongs.

Sona designs mobile robots that share hallways, lobbies and homes the way a considerate person would — reading the room, yielding gracefully, and earning their place in the flow of everyday life.

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1.4M km

Traveled among people

94%

Trajectories rated courteous

40+

Homes, hospitals & lobbies

OUR PHILOSOPHY

Space is a conversation.

People negotiate a hallway with glances and half-steps — a quiet choreography nobody is taught. We build robots that can join it.

THE ROBOT'S PATHA PERSON'S PATH
They meet. Nobody breaks stride.

01 · Listen

First, the robot learns to listen.

Gait, gaze, grouping, hesitation — the signals people broadcast without words. Our perception stack treats a person as a person, not a moving obstacle with legs.

02 · Yield

Then it learns that yielding is intelligence.

Proxemic comfort zones become part of what “optimal” means. The robot passes on the expected side, slows through doorways, and never splits a conversation in two.

03 · Belong

Until being near one feels like nothing at all.

The best compliment our robots receive is not being noticed. That's the whole point — technology that adds capability to a space without ever taking the room.

THE SOCIAL STACK

Four instincts, engineered

Every Sona platform ships with the same temperament — a navigation brain tuned for the company of people.

  • It notices

    Awareness that feels like courtesy

    LiDAR and depth vision fuse into a live picture of who is around — not just where. Wheelchairs earn wider berths, children earn slower speeds, and a queue is one thing, not six.

    360°

    Field of regard

  • It plans around people

    Human-aware path planning

    Comfort is built into the cost of every route. Personal space, expected passing sides, the unspoken rules of a corridor — all part of the math before a wheel ever turns.

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    Comfort zones respected

  • It learns manners

    Social APF-RL

    Potential fields guarantee safety; a reinforcement-learning policy learns the social residual on top — when to yield, how early to signal intent, how close is kind. Raised in simulation, graduated to real hallways.

    94%

    Social compliance · SEAN 2.0

  • It reads the flow

    Dynamic obstacle avoidance

    Forty times a second, everyone's next few steps are predicted — so the robot commits only to gaps that will still exist when it arrives. No dodging, no drama.

    40 Hz

    Gentle replanning

PROXEMICS

The instrument we tune

Edward T. Hall mapped the invisible bubbles people keep around themselves. Our planner treats them as terrain — real boundaries with real costs.

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  • Public — beyond 3.6 m. Free driving; the smooth global route is planned out here.
  • Social — 1.2 to 3.6 m. The approach lane; intent is signalled early and speed comes off.
  • Personal — 0.45 to 1.2 m. The working edge; entered only with purpose, and where the robot settles.
  • Intimate — under 0.45 m. Uninvited entry is a planning failure, never a shortcut.

Every SONA robot approaches through social space, settles at the edge of personal distance and treats the intimate zone as a wall — the difference between a machine that arrives and one that intrudes.

THE FAMILY

Three robots, one temperament

Different jobs, same manners — every platform runs the identical social navigation brain.

In service

NOA

Guide

The wayfinder that walks beside you, not ahead of you.

1.6 m/s

Comfortable top pace

9 h

On a single charge

Meet NOA

Pilot program

MIRA

Host

A small, round presence that makes deliveries feel like favors.

25 kg

Carried with composure

12 h

On a single charge

Meet MIRA

In development

KODA

Porter

Back-of-house muscle with front-of-house manners.

90 kg

Payload

2.0 m/s

Open-corridor pace

Meet KODA

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Bring a considerate robot into your space.

Pilots run four weeks on your floor, in your traffic, with our engineers alongside.

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