Short Circuit

I recently re-watched Short Circuit because it turned forty years old this year.  Later, I realized that Nova is an appropriate name for the robotics company in the movie.  It comes from the Latin adjective novus, -a, -um, which means new.  In this particular form, it's a neuter plural acting as a substantive:  "new [things]."  Like the slogan "TOMORROW IS HERE!" glimpsed shortly after the combat test early in the movie, this name advertises the company's focus on the future.