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About YAYA Labs

About

Yaya Labs is a technology studio born from science fiction, using speculative sci-fi to provide a future signal into emerging technologies. We translate post-human concepts into advanced technical systems that draw from biomimetics, cybernetics, psychological and esoteric theory.

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ROBOT DOG FIGHTS

Robot Dog Fights is the future of robotic combat: robot dogs, fighting.
Our first event in collaboration with Genesys1.1 at TOTAL SONIC KNOCKOUT, taking place on the 3rd July 2026 at Outernet, London.

https://robot-dog-fights.com/

Wetware Club

Only members gain access to the hivemind

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WetWare Club is a private members club that provides the human input for AI and robotics projects. Holders of the WetWare Club key are able to participate in hivemind projects

Highlights

WetWare Club

A members club that provides the human input for AI and robotic personality development

TruMa Personality Generator

Real trauma histories encoded on blockchain for in-depth training of synthetic characters

LLM Facial Memory System

A Yaya Labs open-source project designed to unlock deeper capabilities for AI avatars and robots to communicate with human subjects. The LLM Facial Memory System integrates facial recognition capabilities with large language models to remember the people it encounters and maintains a conversation history with each recognised face,...

NPC Talent Agency (Coming Soon)

NPC Agency is a marketplace that invites creators to hire out and sell characters based on their likeness and trained on their own personalities for the creation of more in-depth and multifaceted characters

Gata Magazine: Neon AI Nights

Follow the musically gifted robot Desdemona as she embarks on an exciting karaoke journey in the middle of Shibuya with a group of drunk salarymen

Desdemona at the Vatican

Desdemona meeting attendees at a symposium hosted by the Vatican to discuss their use of artificial intelligence

Making Machines Feel: Hackathon 2024

An experiment into the radical intersection of AI and robotics. Hackathon: Hypersensual Overclocking is a workshop hosted by Umanesimo Artificiale in Fano, Italy in 2024. Two teams were given 36 hours to develop innovative hardware and AI systems to translate a sensory input into creative robotic movements.

"How Will Machines Reward Humans?"

A performance that took place at WebX 2024. Inspired by the fictional creature Shoggoth from the Cthulhu Mythos, the performance explores the future of AI-human relations, where audience members were interviewed by two AI agents playing the parts of good cop and bad cop to see if they would be useful as a component of a future AI...

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