What Elva is
A face that can be left
in the room.
Not a walking body. Not a cartoon on plastic. Not a screen that talks. Elva is a super-bionic humanoid robot face — built to sit across from someone, and to be believed.
01
A face, not a body
Sitting distance
The product is presence at the distance of a conversation. Elva does not walk the floor and does not replace a kiosk. It is a humanoid robot face for rooms that already pay for a person to sit there — care, training, research, a desk that greets.
02
Real faces taught the motors
Not renders
Three million real human faces, across five continents and forty-plus countries. Thousands of hours of real, dynamic expression. Sixty-plus action units named on each. Expressiveness is not a library of poses. It is earned from how faces actually move.
03
A sincere smile is not a polite one
Congruence in the mechanism
Thirty degrees of freedom in one face: twelve in the mouth, twelve in the eyes, three in the head and neck — and the cheek pair of a genuine smile, and the lift of the nose. People can tell. Elva puts that difference into muscle, so words and face agree.
04
It rests, so it can stay
Privacy as behaviour
A near-human circadian rhythm: bright by day, eyes closed at night. At rest, it does not sense. Raw camera images are not uploaded; expression runs on-device. The detail that feels most alive is also why a face can be left in a private room.
05
The source of truth is chosen
Designated, not crawled
Identity, knowledge and personality are set in plain language and held. Care routines, family stories, institutional guidance: Elva draws only from what has been entrusted — not from the open web. A person is never meeting a stranger twice.