Moon and Earth

Off-world
Robotic Autonomy

Robots that think and act on their own.

ESRIC Programme #6 — selected One module: orbit, station, surface Onboard planning & fault recovery
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Ground control doesn't scale.
Onboard autonomy does.

Space missions are becoming too numerous, too distant, and too complex for every decision to pass through ground control.

01 · The challenge

Operators become the bottleneck.

More spacecraft, longer distances, faster operations. Latency and staffing become mission constraints.

02 · Our answer

NaubrAIn is a plug-in autonomy brain for robotic platforms.

Designed to connect to sensors, actuators, and existing flight or robot software — and to plan, replan, monitor, and react at the edge.

03 · The goal

Robots that keep working when the unexpected happens.

Autonomous navigation, local decisions, fault handling, and recovery without waiting for a command loop.

Initial target applications

01 · Orbital

Autonomous inspection and close-range navigation around client spacecraft.

02 · Station

Compact robotic assistants for monitoring and routine tasks inside space infrastructure.

03 · Surface

Rovers and field robots that navigate, avoid hazards, and adapt in lunar analogue environments.

NaubrAIn design principles

Plug in, fly.

Designed to drop into existing flight software.

Thinks in real time.

Plans and reacts onboard, within the power and compute budgets of space-grade hardware.

Scales from a CubeSat to a rover.

One module, many missions.

Domain-agnostic.

Orbital servicing, lunar prospecting, habitat maintenance, terrestrial robotics.

Adapts on the edge.

AI-based decision-making under unexpected conditions.

Safety by design.

Fault detection, system monitoring, autonomous recovery.

Focused where the autonomy gap is largest.

First development priority: onboard task planning, replanning, and fault detection — where mission demand is rising faster than technology maturity.

Now · 2026–2028
Ground validation
Developing NaubrAIn across simulation, lab systems, and robotic platforms.
TRL 2 → 7
2029–2030
First space demonstrations
In-flight qualification.
TRL 8–9
2031–2034
Commercial deployment
Productized autonomy modules for mission and robotics customers.
Commercial
2035+
Autonomous robotic fleets
Coordinated systems on the Moon, Mars, and in orbit.
Vision

Built where AI meets
space robotics.

Four cofounders with years of work in AI-driven autonomy for space systems — spanning robotics, space engineering, law, and finance.

NaubotiX · Luxembourg 🇱🇺 — Cofounders
Vittorio Franzese

V. Franzese

MD & CEO

Matteo El Hariry

M. El Hariry

CTO

Miguel Olivares-Mendez

M. A. Olivares-Mendez

CSO

Nora Buol

N. Buol

GC & CFO

Nautilus · Italy 🇮🇹 — Founding partner
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Nautilus srl

spacenautilus.com

Building inside the
European space ecosystem.

We are building partnerships across space resources, robotics, and mission operations to move autonomy from research into deployment.

For space agencies and primes

Autonomy modules for spacecraft, rovers, orbital servicing, and robotic infrastructure. Early partners shape the requirements.

For robotics partners

Edge decision-making, fault handling, and task replanning for field robots operating beyond reliable supervision.

NaubotiX is a selected participant of the ESRIC Start-up Support Programme #6, run by the European Space Resources Innovation Centre in Luxembourg.

Where we stand.

February 2026

Selected for ESRIC Start-up Support Programme #6

NaubotiX joined ESRIC's start-up support cohort focused on space resources and robotics technologies.

Milestone
2026

Company registration underway in Luxembourg

The company is being established in Luxembourg, within Europe's growing space ecosystem.

Company
Ongoing

NaubrAIn development begins — three platforms, one brain

One reusable autonomy module for orbital, station, and surface robotics.

R&D

Bring autonomy into
your next robotic mission.

For partnerships, demonstrations, investment conversations, or mission use cases, reach out and we will connect directly.

[email protected]
Headquarters
Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Partner entity
Nautilus srl · Italy 🇮🇹
Status
Registering · 2026