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Fully offline operation

Neural Cube runs entirely on-device. Every model, tool, and piece of software lives on the robot, with no required round-trip to a cloud service, vendor API, or remote inference endpoint. It can be disconnected from the internet and continue to work.

On the robot
Microphones and camera
Speech recognition
The language model
Memory and its curation
Voice and face fingerprints
Navigation and the map
What crosses
Never leaves the robot: Audio and video from the room
Never leaves the robot: Conversation history
Never leaves the robot: Memories and enrolled people
Never leaves the robot: Telemetry and usage data
May leave the robot: Web search — optional, and only the query
Everything needed to hear, think, remember, and move sits on the left of the line. Only an optional web search reaches across it, and the robot keeps working with the line cut entirely.

What this means for the robot​

Privacy​

Whatever the robot sees and hears stays on the robot. There is no telemetry pipeline, third-party transcription service, or vendor sitting between the user and their robot, which makes it suitable for homes, clinics, classrooms, and other settings where sending raw sensor data to an outside server is not acceptable.

Reliability​

The robot should not stop working when the Wi-Fi drops, and it does not depend on upstream API rate-limits, vendor changes to a model's behaviour, or subscription lapses. Latency is bounded by local compute rather than network conditions. It will work on a home network, on a hotspot, or with no network at all, including internet-denied and off-the-grid environments where cloud-dependent robots cannot operate.

Security​

There are no API keys to leak, no cloud accounts to compromise, and no inbound endpoints exposed by default. No vendor-side breach can expose conversation history or sensor data, because none of it is ever uploaded. By removing the network dependency, we are trying to ensure that data stays on the robot as much as possible unless the user wants otherwise.

*Online features (such as web search) are optional and are simply disabled when internet is not accessible.