UBR — Field notesCompany news, bench progress, and field reports from UBR — shared as it happens.https://ubrobotics.ai/enTaking our brain on the road.https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/taking-our-brain-on-the-road/https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/taking-our-brain-on-the-road/UBR is confirming presence at REPMUS and lining up live demos across Lisbon and defence events this September and October — testing the stack outside the lab.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTWe took the UBR Stack out of the lab.https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/ubr-stack-out-of-the-lab/https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/ubr-stack-out-of-the-lab/First time the whole physical stack left Lisbon — UGV, UAV, compute, sensors — for the European Defense Tech Festival near Berlin. The machines drew the crowd; the gaps drew the lesson.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe robot drives back to things it remembers.https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/robot-drives-back-to-what-it-remembers/https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/robot-drives-back-to-what-it-remembers/Eighteen hours of ordinary missions left behind a map of 60 named places. Then we picked the robot up, put it down somewhere else, and told it to go back to the drone.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTSelected for NVIDIA's Codefest — with a zero we intend to change.https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/selected-nvidia-open-models-codefest/https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/selected-nvidia-open-models-codefest/One of fifteen teams selected for NVIDIA's Open Models Codefest. The number we most want to move is a closed-loop test that reached the goal zero times out of four — and the question we had to correct in our own application before anyone else could.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTNobody was watching. That's the point.https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/black-box-robot-that-noticed/https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/black-box-robot-that-noticed/Our robot now keeps a flight recorder — continuous video and audio on its own disk — and notices things by itself: a person at 14:02, a voice in an empty corridor, labelled and indexed while nobody was at the console.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTThree weeks ago this was a voice pipeline on a bench.https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/three-weeks-bench-to-field/https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/three-weeks-bench-to-field/The field brain grew senses it can verify, survived reality's curriculum, and now navigates space it has never seen — with every mistake published alongside the results.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTWe applied to NVIDIA's Codefest — to find out what really fits on 8 GB.https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/nvidia-open-models-codefest/https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/nvidia-open-models-codefest/Fifteen teams, NVIDIA's open models, and one question we can't answer on our own hardware: which model gives a machine the best judgement inside the power budget of something that has to carry its own brain.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMTWe've joined NVIDIA Inception.https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/nvidia-inception/https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/nvidia-inception/UBR has been accepted into NVIDIA Inception — better access to the edge-AI tools and Jetson hardware that put real autonomy on small, low-power machines.Mon, 29 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTOur bid is in: NATO DIANA's autonomy challenge.https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/nato-diana-2027/https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/nato-diana-2027/UBR has submitted a bid to NATO DIANA's 2027 Multidomain Autonomy of Uncrewed Systems challenge — offline-first autonomy, aimed at the contested, disconnected field.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMTThe robot, version zero.https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/version-zero/https://ubrobotics.ai/field-notes/version-zero/Mid-June, before any metal: a low-fidelity 3D model to plan our tracked robot — the same one that now runs offline on NVIDIA Jetson. Drag it around.Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT