Autonomous robots that scan retail stores and generate digital twins
Ubica Robotics builds mobile scanning robots and the web platform to ingest and surface store data for retail operators. The stack—React, TypeScript, Spring Boot, Kafka, Kubernetes, OpenCV, ROS—reveals a hardware-software hybrid company with serious perception engineering (Open3D, computer vision) and backend scale concerns. Current hiring (3 engineering roles in 30 days, all senior/mid-level) and active projects on perception architecture and platform scalability suggest the company is moving from prototype toward production deployment and multi-customer operations.
Ubica Robotics, founded in 2020 as a spinoff from an EU research project, develops autonomous mobile robots designed to scan physical retail stores and generate digital twin representations. The robots collect visual and spatial data; the platform ingests, processes, and visualizes that data for store managers and operators. The company is based in Bremen, Germany, with 51–200 employees and a hiring focus on engineering talent in the German market. Active work spans perception algorithms (mobile scan robot vision), backend platform scaling (web services for multi-robot, multi-store deployments), and sales/market development in the retail vertical.
Frontend: React and TypeScript. Backend: Spring Boot and Ktor on Kotlin/Java. Infrastructure: Kubernetes and Azure Container Apps. Data pipeline: Kafka. Robotics/perception: ROS, OpenCV, Open3D, C++, Python. Version control: GitLab.
Core projects include perception stack architecture for mobile robots, scalable web platform deployment for retail operations, hardware integration, and account/growth strategy development. Challenges center on scaling the web platform and digitalizing retail workflows.
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