October 2026 · Luxembourg
Selected for Fit 4 Start #17
Luxembourg's government-backed start-up accelerator. Space track.
Announcement →1 of 24start-ups selected from 556 applications
Recognition
01 / 03
October 2026 · Germany
Q-VLEO selected for SPRIND Funke
Quantum-sensing research, funded in Stage 1 by Germany's Federal Agency for Breakthrough Innovation.
SPRIND challenge →1 of 13teams funded in Stage 1
February 2026 · Luxembourg
ESRIC Start-up Support Programme #6
Start-up programme of the European Space Resources Innovation Centre.
ESRIC programme →#6start-up cohort
Operating environments
Built for places without a supervisor
One autonomy core, adapted to each domain
01
ORBIT
Satellites and in-orbit robotics
Minutes of ground contact per pass
02
PLANETARY
Rovers and landers
3–22 min one-way signal delay to Mars
03
SUBSEA
ROVs and AUVs
No radio below the surface
04
UNDERGROUND
Mining and inspection robots
Patchy radio, no line of sight
05
FIELD
Agricultural and outdoor machines
Many machines, one operator
NaubrAIn
From mission goals to onboard decisions
One autonomy stack, designed to run onboard your hardware and tested in simulation first
In development · TRL 7 targeted for 2028
Example mission
PLANETARY
Drill and cache three samples at site B before local sunset
Goals and constraints in
- L5
Mission planner
Goals into tasks, scheduled against time, energy and comms windows
- L4
Decision & replanning
Picks the next action. Replans when the world disagrees
- L3
World model
Fuses onboard data into the state of the robot and its task
- L2
Safety & health
Detects faults, recovers, and can veto any action
- L1
Platform interface
Adapters to your sensors, actuators and software
Decision loop · onboard
GOAL
Mission objective received
PLAN
Primary instrument faults
REPLAN
Replan onboard, check constraints
EXECUTE
Carry on, report to operators
Research frontier
Blue-sky research, same core question.
Blue-sky R&D
Q-VLEO: quantum sensing for very low Earth orbit
Can quantum sensors give spacecraft in very low Earth orbit sharper onboard awareness, and how should an autonomy stack act on it?
- Link to the core
- New inputs for NaubrAIn's world model
- Funding
- SPRIND Funke, Stage 1
- Status
- Exploratory. Autonomy software and engineering services stay our core
Team
Expertise in AI and autonomy
Years of work on real-world and simulated autonomy for space and terrestrial systems
Cofounders · Luxembourg 🇱🇺
Vittorio Franzese
MD & CEO
Matteo El Hariry
CTO
Miguel Olivares-Mendez
CSO
Nora Buol
GC & CFO
Founding partner · Italy 🇮🇹
Nautilus
spacenautilus.com
Updates
Where we stand.
ESRIC Start-up Support Programme #6
Luxembourg start-up programme.
NaubotiX S.à r.l. registered
R.C.S. B310564.
Q-VLEO in SPRIND Funke
Stage 1, Quantum-Driven Intelligence.
LinkedIn →Selected for Fit 4 Start #17
1 of 24 from 556 applications.
Announcement →Fit 4 Start programme
Six-month accelerator.
NaubrAIn at TRL 7
Prototype proven in an operational environment.
TargetFirst field demonstrations
Autonomous operations on real platforms.
Target
Contact
Bring autonomy into your next mission
Partnerships, engineering services, investment or research. A founder will reply.
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