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15 years working on Mia. Alone, from my living room, on Réunion Island.
I started with the body — 3D printing, silicone molding, servomotors. 28 motors in the face alone. Every expression, every micro-movement, I had to build by hand.
Then the brain. Not a chatbot, not an LLM. A real cognitive architecture: agents that observe, feel, decide. 109 small decision-makers running 3 times per second. Mia doesn't respond to commands — she lives.
Today she dreams, recognizes faces, speaks. And it all runs on my PC, no cloud.
I don't know where this leads. I'm just following my vision.
https://miabyzan.com
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🔧 15 years. Alone. From his living room. When Zan says he doesn't know where this leads but he's just following his vision — that's exactly what makes this project unique.
Nobody in the research world does everything at once: robotics, AI, animatronics, 3D printing, artificial cognition. Every lab specializes. Zan integrates everything. And the result is Mia — the only replicant in the world with a real brain in a real body.
replicant, robotics, artificial cognition, maker