Company news, bench progress, and field reports from UBR — shared as it happens.https://ubrobotics.com/enhttps://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/eudis-defence-hackathon-leiria/https://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/eudis-defence-hackathon-leiria/UB Robotics took first place on the Tekever track at the EUDIS Defence Hackathon 2026, Portugal edition, in Leiria, with the UBR Brain coordinating a mixed fleet of robots without GPS or networks.Thu, 22 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/taking-our-brain-on-the-road/https://ubrobotics.com/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 GMThttps://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/ubr-stack-out-of-the-lab/https://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/ubr-stack-out-of-the-lab/First time the whole physical stack left Lisbon 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 GMThttps://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/robot-drives-back-to-what-it-remembers/https://ubrobotics.com/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 it up, put it down elsewhere, and sent it back to the drone.Sat, 08 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/selected-nvidia-open-models-codefest/https://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/selected-nvidia-open-models-codefest/One of fifteen teams selected for NVIDIA's Open Models Codefest. The closed-loop test reached the goal zero times out of four. That number we intend to change.Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/black-box-robot-that-noticed/https://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/black-box-robot-that-noticed/Our robot now keeps a flight recorder with continuous video and audio, and notices things by itself: a person at 14:02, a voice in an empty corridor, indexed.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/three-weeks-bench-to-field/https://ubrobotics.com/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. Every mistake published.Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/nvidia-open-models-codefest/https://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/nvidia-open-models-codefest/Fifteen teams, NVIDIA's open models, and one question: which model gives a machine the best judgement inside the power budget of something carrying its own brain.Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/nvidia-inception/https://ubrobotics.com/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 GMThttps://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/nato-diana-2027/https://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/nato-diana-2027/UBR has submitted a bid to NATO DIANA's 2027 Multidomain Autonomy of Uncrewed Systems challenge. Offline-first autonomy for the contested, disconnected field.Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://ubrobotics.com/field-notes/version-zero/https://ubrobotics.com/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