DAOMOTAN™Personal Robotics
DAOMOTAN Personal Robotics. Model NAN II, a rounded robot on four wheels, above amber, orange, rust and brown stripes.
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The robot you were promised.

A boombox, a cooler, a bookworm and a buddy on four wheels. It hangs out, it helps out, and it never phones home.

Not a drone. Not a doorbell camera. Not reporting on you. Just a good robot.

What NAN II does
What NAN II does

Remember the robots in the movies?

The ones who beeped, rolled along beside the heroes and made everything more fun? Somewhere along the way, the future got drones and surveillance cameras instead. NAN II is our way of getting the good one back.

In the workshop

It hangs out

NAN II rolls along beside you like a good dog, from the porch to the yard to the campsite. It’s happy just to be around.

Working now

It’s a boombox

Load it with your own music and crank it on the porch. No streaming account, no ads.

In the workshop

It’s a cooler

Cold drinks ride along wherever NAN II goes.

In the workshop

It’s movie night

Put your own movies on it and project them onto a wall, or a bedsheet strung between two trees.

Working now

It knows stuff

Ask it all sorts of things. An offline Wikipedia, a medical encyclopedia and hundreds of books ride inside, no signal needed.

Working now

It translates

It listens in one language and speaks in another, so everyone at the table can talk.

In the workshop

It charges your phone

Plug in and top up, even when the nearest outlet is miles away.

Working now

It plays games

Arcade games designed by NAN II’s own inventor, with a gamepad in the box. Winner picks the movie.

And a little more: its very own theme music, a few instruments to play along with, stereo speakers in its chest, and a touchscreen with buttons big enough for any finger.

The DAOMSYS boot screen: NAN II drawn in green phosphor beside DAOMOTAN, Personal Robotics
NAN II Arcade

Play NAN II's games right here.

Saves The Humans, Down The Wormhole and Through The Black Hole, plus Facemaker, Melody Cartridge and Fossegrim. The same games that run on NAN II, in your browser: plug in a gamepad and play them online too.

Enter the arcade →
Make it yours

Pick its brain, its voice and its face.

Choose its brain

NAN II is the body. You choose the brain.

NAN II runs open AI models, the kind anyone can download, right on its own computer, and you decide which ones. DAOMSYS™ is the harness around them: it gives the model you pick ears, a voice, a face and a screen, and it decides what that model can reach. What the model says is up to the model and the people who made it, so choose one you trust.

  • Load the models you like, and change them whenever you want.
  • Use a quick model for easy chat and a deeper thinker for harder questions.
  • When a better open model comes out, put it on NAN II yourself. No waiting on us.

Pick its voice

Over two hundred voices to choose from. Listen to each one before you decide.

Design its face

A face editor is built in. Draw the expressions NAN II makes on its screen.

An owner's manual inside

Every button, game and setting is explained right on NAN II's own screen. No website needed.

No phone home

Robots were supposed to be friends, not watchers.

“No phone home” means NAN II’s operating system never calls us: no telemetry, no account to sign into, no switch we can flip from afar. It doesn’t need the internet to work, and it answers to you.

Jody Morris Gelbart, founder of DAOMOTAN, beside an old roadside phone booth whose receiver is missing, with water behind.
Jody Morris Gelbart, founder

It doesn't call us

DAOMSYS sends us no recordings, no usage data and no check-ins. There's no telemetry to opt out of.

No internet needed

Wikipedia, the books, the music and the movies are all on board, so NAN II works the same at home or off the grid.

Its memory stays home

NAN II keeps facts only when you tell it to, plus a day log of what it did and what its camera saw. Both stay on the robot, and you can ask what's in them.

Nothing changes unless you say so

DAOMSYS takes no updates from afar and leans on no servers of ours. Nothing changes, and it keeps working, until you decide otherwise.

What you add is your call

Install a different model, an app or a service that goes online, and it runs by your rules. DAOMSYS won't stop you, and it won't tell us.

Yours to repair or modify

Open it up, swap a part, change its voice, its face or its software. It's your robot.

2014
First written
Where NAN II comes from

NAN II was a story before it was a robot.

Every robot starts somewhere. NAN II started on the page.

  1. January 2014

    Written and drawn

    Jody Morris Gelbart wrote and illustrated a short story about a robot named NAN II, and registered it with the U.S. Copyright Office on January 29, 2014.

  2. The years between

    The world caught up

    The story waited while computers got small enough to ride inside a robot, and AI got good enough to run with no cloud at all.

  3. Off the page

    Designed by the person who dreamed it up

    Jody brought NAN II to life, and kept going: Jody designed every one of its arcade games and wrote its theme music, so NAN II's games and theme song are its very own.

  4. Today

    In the workshop

    NAN II talks, plays, reads and translates, and its wheels are being built. It's in the workshop now, being tested.

About DAOMOTAN

Your music.
Your books.
No phone home.

DAOMOTAN Personal Robotics makes Model NAN II, a personal robot that plays, reads and translates, runs the AI you choose, and whose operating system never reports back to us.