Hello! My name is Thijs Albers. I founded Nova Machina based on my old hobby projects getting rather out of hand! My life-long experimentation with mechanics, crossed with my studies in physics and mathematics led me to develop the α* protocol.

Even though the pursue of α* came from passion for tech, the inception of Nova Machina was fuelled by a sense of responsibility. The world moves to embrace the magic of AI, but I fear for the combination of AI and exoskeleton tech. If exoskeleton tech are the mechanics we wear to help us; AI powered exoskeleton tech means living extremely near AI.

My proposition against this is α*. The α* protocol is an extremely potent, but narrow operating system that can listen to the human but not function without him. As an analogy, think of a bicycle. It is because of intelligent design that fits the human form that bikes are so useful. But leave your bike outside and it is a passive object. A bike is also fairly useless besides its biky-purposes.

This is how we construct our machinery; the ultimate intuitive tool, not a wearable AI robot.