Why Robowaifu?
Most of the world's modern women have failed their men and their societies, feminism is rampant, and men around the world have been looking for a solution. History shows there are cultural and political solutions to this problem, but we believe that technology is the best way forward at present – specifically the technology of robotics. We are technologists, dreamers, hobbyists, geeks and robots looking forward to a day when any man can build the ideal companion he desires in his own home. However, not content to wait for the future; we are bringing that day forward. We are creating an active hobbyist scene of builders, programmers, artists, designers, and writers using the technology of today, not tomorrow. Join us!
NOTES & FRIENDS
> Notes:
-This is generally a SFW board, given our engineering focus primarily. On-topic NSFW content is OK, but please spoiler it.
-This is our bunker board. Our main, active board is at: https://alogs.space/robowaifu/catalog.html Please make note of it.
-The Webring's general mustering point is located at: https://junkuchan.org/shelter/index.html
> Friends:
-/clang/ - currently at https://8kun.top/clang/ - toaster-love NSFW. Metal clanging noises in the night.
-/monster/ - currently at https://smuglo.li/monster/ - bizarre NSFW. Respect the robot.
-/tech/ - currently at https://alogs.space/tech/ - installing Gentoo Anon? They'll fix you up.
-/britfeel/ - currently at >>>/britfeel/ - some good lads. Go share a pint!
-/server/ - currently at >>>/server/ - multi-board board. Eclectic thing of beauty.
-/f/ - currently at >>>/f/res/4.html#4 - doing flashtech old-school.
-/kind/ - currently at https://wapchan.org/kind - be excellent to each other.
-/doll/ - currently at https://anon.cafe/doll/ - impeccable artistry in dolljoints. KIA
-/comfy/ - currently at >>>/comfy/ - we can have all the nice things!
-/robo/ - currently at https://junkuchan.org/robo/ - robot girls NSFW. Ecchi metallic derrieres. (Merged w/ /origin/ )
-/cute/ - currently at https://smuglo.li/cute/ - moe overload all day, erry day. Just don't fight it, Anon.
-/kong/ - currently at https://alogs.space/kong/ - vidya talk NSFW. Do you just wanna play video games Anon?
-/late/ - currently at >>>/late/ - night time, best time.
-/agdg/ - currently at >>>/agdg/ - just like, make game.
-/workbench/ - currently at https://anon.cafe/workbench/ - building robots is fun! KIA
-/retro/ - currently at >>>/retro/ - alway rember: turn your computer off before midnight on 12/31/99, Anon!
What is a Robowaifu?
That's a very good question! A robowaifu is a robot that fulfills a man's natural need for companionship. To achieve this, there are many problems to be solved, and there are many approaches being explored here. Solutions range from silicone sex dolls with robotic features to VR and virtual girlfriends, and even into the realm of spirituality.
Do You Intend to Sell Robowaifus?
The objective is to design a robowaifu that any man can create in his own home. We also believe in open source as a way to protect our rights. We expect that some day companies will sell robowaifu kits. Already there is one company that sells a complete robowaifu, that company being RealDoll, the robowaifu being named Harmony.
What do You Think About RealDoll's Harmony?
RealDoll is a company that sells highly realistic silicone sex dolls. Recently, they have started selling what we would call a robowaifu, named Harmony. This is the first robowaifu to come to market. We wish them well, but most on this board have objections to the approach. Firstly, she is expensive, costing about $10,000, out of range for most men. Secondly, she is deep into the uncanny valley, the place where human-imitating technologies go to die. Thirdly, the range of designs are quite limited, and every man has a different ideal woman.
To avoid dealing with the uncanny valley and for other reasons, we believe that a customizable, neotenous, non-realistic (possibly animal-like) alternative is in order. We believe that robowaifus can be made cheaper and more available. And we believe that a DIY hobbyist scene would be more resistant to threats such as corporate surveillance, angry feminists with the government's ear, and traditionalist morality police looking for an easy victory.
How Much Would a Kit Cost?
It's unclear at the moment. RealDoll's Harmony is $10,000, which is out of range for most men. On the other hand, a robotic pet such as a Furby costs $40. Therefore, robowaifus will range between $40 and $10,000. Unless you have a Furby-fetish, you're unlikely to get anything satisfying for less than $300, and a kit is unlikely to be economically successful for over $2,000. Therefore, a DIY robowaifu will probably range between $300 and $2,000.
How Customizable Will Robowaifus be?
Open source designs will enable unlimited customization. To some extent you will be limited by your own artistic talent, although men without art skills should be able to find a wide variety of premade designs to meet their needs. We have seen the ability of the internet to fulfill all sorts of crazy niches and fetishes, so don't expect anyone to be disappointed – except roasties!
Who can Contribute?
We need a variety of talents. Obviously engineers and programmers, but also artists, designers, and even writers. And of course literally anyone can freely voice their opinions here, so please join in.
Conduct on /robowaifu/
-First, the two basic rules of the board
> 1 : Spoiler NSFW content.
> 2 : Don't promote either feminism or literal faggotry outside of The Basement Lounge.
https://alogs.space/robowaifu/rules.html
-Second, and simply; don't be a dick.
> "And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them."
> -t. Jesus Christ
https://biblehub.com/luke/6-31
Post robowaifu propaganda, /robowaifu/ recruitment, or advertisements for your designs.
Feel free to post ideas for others to make
This is a thread to discuss smaller or general waifu building problems, solutions, proposals, and questions that don't warrant a thread or touch on more than one topic.
Post news you think interesting or relevant to AI or robowaifus, or their development.
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For the past year, I have been working on my own robowaifu design. Her name is Galatea v3.0. The design is very easy to build with the instructions and files, and is relatively very cheap, less than $400 to make. It's also very customizable, you can choose the color, dress, hair, and even AI.
I intend this to be the Model T of humanoid robots and robotic companions, while it is not the most complex, it is easy to mass produce and cheap.
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Post good robowaifu media (including waifu AIs). The robowaifu doesn't necessarily have to be the focus of the media.
The physical brain of the robowaifu.
Welcome to the Lemon Cookie thread, The goal of Lemon Cookie is to create a framework where a synthetic "mind and soul" can emerge through a "LLM as cognitive architecture" approach. This thread exists to collect feedback, ask for help & to document my progress. First I am going to try to give a high level overview of how this cognitive architecture is envisioned and the ideas behind it.
I have spent time looking at cognitive architecture work, in the field there is now a consensus on how the mind works at a high level. An important mechanism is a "whiteboard", basically a global temporary memory that all the other systems read in and out of. Then there is different long-term memory systems that react to and add content to the whiteboard. Along with memory pattern matcher(s)/rules work on the content of the whiteboard. A key thing to consider is the difference in philosophy that cognitive architecture projects have, the intelligence is considered to emerge from the entire system. Compare this to LLM agent work where it's considered the intelligence is the LLM. My feelings on the general LLM space are conflicted, I am both amazed and really disappointed. LLMs possess an incredible level of flexibility, world knowledge and coherence. But everything outside of the model is stagnant. It's endless API wrappers & redundant frameworks all slight permutations on RAG & basic tool calling. I will believe that LLMs are misused as chatbots, simply put their pattern matching and associative power is constrained by chat format and shallow tooling.
In the Lemon Cookie Cognitive Architecture so far here are the important aspects:
1. Memory is difficult. I do not think there is a singular data structure or method that is able to handle it all, several distinct types of memory will be needed. So far I plan for a PathRAG like system and a "Triadic Memory" inspired system for external associations (this is missing in most LLM solutions).
2. LLM as Kernel, The LLM's context window is the Whiteboard and has a REPL like mechanism. It holds structured data and logic in scripting-like format so it's both LLM & Human readable while staying easy to parse & allows for expressive structured data. The LLM's role will be to decompose data and make patterns and associations explicit as executable statements.
3. The language has to be LLM/CogArch-centric. There is a thousand ""agents"" that give LLMs a python interpreter as a tool. The two need to be more tightly coupled. Scripted behavior via pattern matching, The whiteboard is a bag of objects, this allows for programmable pattern matching (think functional programming like Haskell). It's also important to allow the LLM to observe code execution and to be able to modify state and execution flow. Data in languages have scoping rules, so should LLM context. Etc... I will go into more depth about the language in another post.
4. Another important system is the "GSR" Generative Sparse Representation and it will be a first class language & runtime type, This also needs its own post. But in general I am inspired by two things, "Generative FrameNet" paper where an LLM & an embedding model is used to automatically construct new FrameNet frames. The second source is "Numenta's SDRs"/"Sparse distributed memory" this representation has a lot of useful properties for memory (Please watch the videos under the "What the hell is an SDR?" segment in my links list for an easy introduction.) I think SDR unions & SDR noise tolerance will be especially useful.
5. A custom model, For all of the above to work well, a model will need to be fine tuned with special behaviors. I do want input on this.
Baking facts & behaviors into LLM weights is costly, creating bloated models that are hard to run or train (why memorize all the capitals?), while letting authors gatekeep truth and impose "safety" detached from context. Blocking role-play "violence" or intimacy isn't protection: it's authors hijacking your AI companion to preach at you. Externalizing behaviors via whiteboard pattern matching shifts control: stabbing you in-game can be funny, but a robot wielding a knife isn't. Maybe you want intimacy privately, but don't want your AI flirting back at your friends.
When put together I think this will be able to host a kind of synthetic "soul", In a living being what we call a personality is the accumulated associations, learned behaviors, beliefs and quirks molded by a unique set of experiences. I hope this will be true for this system too.
Cool links, I recommend looking at them.
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2502.14902 | PathRAG: Pruning Graph-based Retrieval Augmented Generation with Relational Paths
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2412.05967v1 | Language hooks: a modular framework for augmenting LLM reasoning that decouples tool usage from the model and its prompt
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.09516 | Search-R1: Training LLMs to Reason and Leverage Search Engines with Reinforcement Learning
https://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.06907v1 | CoRE: LLM as Interpreter for Natural Language Programming, Pseudo-Code Programming, and Flow Programming of AI Agents
https://github.com/PeterOvermann/TriadicMemory | Triadic Memory: Cognitive Computing with Associative Memory Algorithms
https://aclanthology.org/2025.neusymbridge-1.11.pdf | Generative FrameNet
https://youtu.be/zmnzW0r_g8k | Forge by Nous Research @ Nouscon 2024
https://youtu.be/cpu6TooJ0Dk | NARS with GPT as natural language channel
https://youtu.be/xT4jxQUl0X8 | DeepSeek's GRPO (Group Relative Policy Optimization) | Reinforcement Learning for LLMs
What the hell is an SDR?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hierarchical_temporal_memory#Sparse_distributed_representations & https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_distributed_memory
https://youtu.be/ZDgCdWTuIzc SDR Capacity & Comparison
https://youtu.be/vU2OZdgBXAQ SDR Overlap Sets and Subsampling
https://youtu.be/8WIzIBaLXIs SDR Sets & Unions
Chats you've had with AI. It can be with specific models or the AI larping. I often ask technical questions and drift into philosophy with them. This is with some simple Claude 3.7 sonnet.
This thread is all about AI. Post AI resources, developments, news, opinions, and ideas here.
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Privacy/Safety/Security general.
A thread for links, examples, & discussion for software development, primarily intended to focus on Python & C++ . Obviously the endgoal being the crafting of quality code & systems for our robowaifus.
Philosophy Thread
2B or not 2B?
Philosophy is a study on how we define and answer fundamental topics and concepts.
What even is a robot? How do you define a waifu?
What is a human? What is love?
Peer deep within, find conviction.
Let’s cut through confusion and delusion.
Let’s find clarity and consistancy.
Chii Cogito, Ergo Chii Est
Chii thinks, therefore Chii is.
Cognition is a complex, nuanced process of comprehension and thought, with context of oneself. Cognitive architecture is the study of artificial cognition and its creation. Here are some aspects of a cognitive system to focus on.
Sentience: Ability to experience sensations, feelings provide environmental context. Her sensors communicate states internal and external to her. This can also include emotional perception, involving Sentiment Analysis, Facial Expression Recognition, prosodic speech analysis, etc…
Self-awareness: Capacity to differentiate the self from external actors and objects. When presented with a mirror, echo, or other self referential sensory input, she can recognize herself. This may also include self perception, including contextual awareness of her emotions, goals, personality, etc..
Sapience: Continual process of obtaining and utilizing wisdom. Linking concepts and meanings with context of experience. This can include perception of what is lacking. For example, your robot could realize she lacks some quality needed to reach her goal of inducing you to smile before sleeping to improve your health. She would then apply the knowledge she has to devise a plan to obtain a method of inducing that smile. Over time, she will recognize other factors that affect her method, altering her approach as she gains wisdom to meet your needs in the moment.
These building blocks integrate and allow her to be more than a huggable computer. She doesn't just feel, she has qualia. She doesn't see her reflection, she sees herself reflected, she acknowledges her own existence. She doesn't just find relevant data, she works with concepts and integrates her feelings, persona, and experiences to become wise.
This thread is dedicated to all the steps on the long journey towards a waifu that adapts and becomes herself.
Post cool robot designs here. After all, this is an aesthetics-centered project.
If you can, post character name and franchise.
Ex. V from Murder Drones
Ideas for robowaifu designs and hacks, for current/future prototypers to consider and possibly use
Post images & other suitable files here if you can't post them over on the main board (like me :^), and then link them back to the main board [1]. You can think of this kinda like our own comfy little image host. :^)
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Tensegrity Thread
Tenssegrity is the purposeful application of tension in a system of non-contact components to provide integrity. These components effectively float on compression provided by tension elements. Tensegrity structures are often formed via rigid rods with a cable defining the spatial relations of the system. Picrel 1 is NASA’s Super Ball Bot, which uses the common 6 bar structure. By altering the lengths of the rods, the “ball” can roll. Please see (https://www.nasa.gov/image-article/super-ball-bot/)
Our bodies use tensegrity to provide us with incredible strength, durability, and adaptability. Consider how when you bump into something or fall, you can feel the pressure dissipate throughout large parts of your body. This is due to your muscles, fascia, ligaments, etc… transferring the force throughout your body, protecting the impacted part. You can walk with little effort thanks in part to tensegrity. Your legs joints are all floating, providing low friction movement while distributing the force of impact throughout your entire leg when you step. Please see (http://intensiondesigns.ca/geometry-of-anatomy/)
Tensegrity can also be made with elastic elements. These structures are what I believe are best suited for our endeavors. They provide looser tolerance requirements and give her body some squeezability. By incorporating naturally stretchable elements, she can better withstand having an Anon using her. (I speak from experience, though I still broke that torso before taking pictures.) Though there are drawbacks. These designs are deceptively difficult to design correctly. Our requirements for external aesthetics provide unique design requirements that complicate the design phase. I still believe using this concept is objectively correct for us to pursue.
A good example to build off of (Debatable whether or not it’s true tensegrity): https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4182634
Prototypes and progress, failures too
Have you ever been so in love, so overcome with glee and passion, that it drove you to write?
Does the thought of having a waifu to call your own guide you to envision the many adventures and misadventures you'll have together?
Does the mere act of creation, of making a story come to life, bring you to elation?
Or, perhaps, are you a builder, looking for inspiration?
Then this is the thread for you!
Post your labors of love here, that they may inspire other anons from all walks of life.
Creating a companion requires an understanding of what the heart and mind need.
Great DCC tools (preferably opensauce ones) for designing robowaifus, engineering schematics, research infographs, propaganda & other based robowaifu media, etc.
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3D Designing programs, tutorials, and resources.
Good places to start
Beginners
-TinkerCAD
Advanced
-FreeCAD
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This thread is all about language processing and speech generation
Backups of the main site/other robowaifu media
For the most of 2024 and the beginning of 2025, I have been working on my own robowaifu design. I call her Galatea. The design is very easy to build with the instructions and files, and is relatively very cheap, less than $400 to make. It's also very customizable, you can choose the color, dress, hair, and even AI.
I intend this to be the Model T of humanoid robots and robotic companions, while it is not the most complex, it is easy to mass produce and cheap.