🚀 MyZubster: 36 Robots, 119 XMR in Bounties, Space Station, and TAZ DAY #1
Open Source · XMR Payments · 36 Robot Projects · 7 Sectors · 119 XMR in Bounties · AI · Computer Vision · IoT
MyZubster has reached another major milestone.
The ecosystem now contains 36 robot projects across 7 sectors, combining robotics, AI, computer vision, IoT, payment infrastructure and a new space-oriented software sector.
The project has also reached 119 XMR in the defined bounty structure, with development organized around open-source issues, implementations and integrations.
But the most important change is what comes next.
We're moving from:
code → simulation → integration
toward:
hardware → physical testing → real-world demonstrations.
The first planned physical event is TAZ DAY #1 in Riccione, Italy, in September 2026.
📅 TAZ DAY #1 — RICCIONE
TAZ DAY #1 is intended to bring parts of the MyZubster ecosystem into a physical environment.
Planned demonstrations include:
- 🤖 Fluffypony Smart — vision-assisted robot bartender concept;
- 🛡️ Hera Security Vision — computer-vision security demonstration;
- 🧹 Hera Cleaner — autonomous cleaning concept;
- 🌱 Hera Gardener — robot-assisted plant care;
- 🏥 Nurse Monitor — monitoring-system demonstration;
- 🚀 Space Station Demo — software/simulation-oriented space infrastructure;
- 💳 Cardputer Zero — contactless XMR payment interface.
📍 Riccione, Italy
📅 September 2026
The event is intended as a real-world testing and demonstration environment.
📊 The Seven Sectors
The current project structure is:
| Sector | Robot Projects | Bounty Allocation | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fluffypony | 5 | 16 XMR | ✅ |
| Robot Barman | 4 | 8.5 XMR | ✅ |
| Nurse Robots | 5 | 13 XMR | ✅ |
| Hera Robots | 5 | 9 XMR | ✅ |
| Industrial | 4 | 15 XMR | ✅ |
| Educational | 3 | 5.5 XMR | ✅ |
| 🚀 Space | 10 | 78 XMR | ✅ |
| TOTAL | 36 | 119 XMR | ✅ |
Here, "complete" refers to the defined project/software scope and bounty milestones.
It does not mean that all 36 projects are already deployed as autonomous physical robots in the real world.
That distinction is important.
The next challenge is physical validation.
🚀 The New Space Sector
The largest new addition is the Space sector.
It contains ten software and infrastructure projects:
| # | Project | Bounty |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Core Module | 10 XMR |
| 2 | Satellite Communication | 8 XMR |
| 3 | Lunar Rover | 12 XMR |
| 4 | Astronaut AI | 6 XMR |
| 5 | Space Dashboard | 5 XMR |
| 6 | Space Gateway | 7 XMR |
| 7 | Debris Tracker | 4 XMR |
| 8 | Interplanetary Communications | 9 XMR |
| 9 | Life Support | 6 XMR |
| 10 | AI Core | 11 XMR |
| TOTAL | 78 XMR |
This is not a claim that MyZubster has built a physical space station.
The Space sector is a software, simulation and architecture direction exploring what an autonomous infrastructure could look like in remote environments.
🛰️ Why Space?
Space introduces a fundamental robotics problem:
You cannot always depend on immediate human intervention.
A robot on Earth might communicate continuously with a nearby operator.
A robot operating on the Moon or Mars could experience:
- communication delays;
- temporary connection loss;
- limited energy;
- limited computing resources;
- difficult maintenance;
- harsh environmental conditions.
That makes local autonomy extremely important.
A simplified architecture becomes:
Sensors
↓
Local AI
↓
Robot
↓
Local Gateway
↓
Telemetry
↓
Delayed Communication
↓
Earth
The robot must be capable of continuing certain operations locally rather than waiting for every decision from Earth.
🧠 Astronaut AI and EVA
The Space sector also extends the idea behind EVA, the MyZubster AI agent.
EVA currently represents an AI-driven interface for interacting with the ecosystem.
The same architectural concept can eventually be applied to remote infrastructure.
An AI layer could help interpret:
- telemetry;
- sensor data;
- robot status;
- system events;
- communication state;
- mission information.
The principle is:
AI assists with interpretation and coordination while critical safety systems remain deterministic and independently controlled.
🌐 The Space Gateway
The Gateway becomes even more important in a remote environment.
Instead of connecting every robot directly to every service, a local Gateway can coordinate communication.
Robot A ─┐
Robot B ─┼──> Local Gateway ──> Communication Layer
Robot C ─┘
│
↓
Earth
This creates a common infrastructure layer.
The same concept can be used on Earth.
The environment changes.
The architecture remains modular.
👁️ Robots Can Now See
Another major milestone is computer vision.
The Smart Camera layer introduces a reusable perception system based around technologies such as:
- OpenCV;
- YOLO;
- face-detection / recognition components;
- mock camera input;
- real camera input.
The objective is to give different robots access to a common vision infrastructure.
🍹 Fluffypony Smart
The Fluffypony robot bartender provides a simple demonstration.
Before performing a service, the robot can check whether the required object is present.
For example:
from smart_camera import FluffyponyVision
vision = FluffyponyVision()
glass_present = vision.check_glass()
person_present = vision.detect_person()
if glass_present and person_present:
print("Ready for service")
The important architectural change is:
Command
↓
Vision
↓
Detection
↓
Decision
↓
Action
The robot is no longer required to blindly execute a command.
It can use information from its environment as part of the workflow.
🛡️ Hera Security Vision
Hera provides another example.
The robot can use camera input during a patrol to detect people or other relevant events.
Camera
↓
Computer Vision
↓
Detection
↓
Event
↓
Security Workflow
This is a development and demonstration capability.
A production security system would require considerably more testing, privacy controls, false-positive handling and human oversight.
💳 Cardputer Zero + Monero
The ecosystem is also connecting physical hardware to the MyZubster Gateway.
The Cardputer integration explores contactless payment workflows using a UHF tag, Bluetooth, Android and Monero.
The architecture is:
UHF Tag
↓
Cardputer Zero
↓
Bluetooth
↓
Android
↓
MyZubster Gateway
↓
XMR Payment Request
↓
QR Code
↓
Monero Wallet
↓
Payment Verification
The Cardputer doesn't need to understand the entire payment infrastructure.
It acts as a physical interface.
The Gateway remains responsible for the payment workflow.
🪙 Why Monero?
Monero is part of the MyZubster payment architecture because the project is exploring privacy-focused digital payments for autonomous services.
A future robotic service could theoretically follow:
User
↓
Service Request
↓
XMR Payment Request
↓
Gateway
↓
Payment Verification
↓
Authorization
↓
Robot
↓
Physical Service
This creates a connection between a digital payment event and a physical action.
That is one of the central ideas behind the MyZubster ecosystem.
🤖 From Robot to Autonomous Service
The larger architecture is becoming:
USER
│
▼
EVA
│
┌────────────┼────────────┐
▼ ▼ ▼
Vision Gateway IoT
│ │ │
└────────────┼────────────┘
▼
ROBOTS
│
▼
REAL WORLD
The robot is only one component.
AI provides interpretation.
Vision provides perception.
IoT provides environmental data.
The Gateway provides coordination.
Monero provides a payment layer.
Together, they form a larger infrastructure.
💰 Bounty-Driven Development
The ecosystem has been developed around GitHub issues and bounty-driven contributions.
The basic development cycle is:
Issue
↓
CLAIM
↓
Development
↓
Pull Request
↓
Review
↓
Merge
↓
Bounty
↓
Integration
↓
Testing
This creates a direct connection between an identified problem and an implementation.
It also allows contributors to work independently on specific components.
One developer can work on computer vision.
Another can work on firmware.
Another can improve the Gateway.
Another can work on AI.
The components can then be integrated into the same ecosystem.
🌍 What Changes in the Real World?
The important milestone isn't simply reaching 36 projects.
The important change is the convergence of the components.
Previously, you could think about these as separate projects:
Robot
AI
IoT
Payments
Vision
Now the architecture connects them:
MYZUBSTER
│
┌──────────┼──────────┐
↓ ↓ ↓
Robot AI IoT
│ │ │
└──────────┼──────────┘
↓
Gateway
│
┌───────┴───────┐
↓ ↓
Vision XMR
│ │
└───────┬───────┘
↓
Real Service
This means future robots can potentially reuse existing infrastructure rather than implementing everything independently.
🧪 The Most Important Next Step: Physical Testing
Software completion is not the end.
It's the beginning of the next phase.
The development cycle now becomes:
Code
↓
Simulation
↓
Mock Hardware
↓
Real Hardware
↓
Physical Test
↓
Observation
↓
Issue
↓
Fix
↓
Test Again
This is where the difference between a repository and a real-world system becomes visible.
A camera may work perfectly in simulation and fail under poor lighting.
A robot may work on a clean floor and struggle with obstacles.
A payment terminal may work with a good network connection and fail offline.
An AI model may produce false positives.
These are not necessarily failures of the project.
They are exactly the problems that physical testing is designed to discover.
📅 TAZ DAY #1
TAZ DAY #1 is planned as an opportunity to move some of these components into a real environment.
The goal is not to claim that every subsystem is production-ready.
The goal is to demonstrate, test and learn.
Possible demonstrations include:
🤖 Robotics
Fluffypony and Hera systems.
👁️ Computer Vision
Real camera-based robot perception.
💳 Payments
Cardputer and XMR payment workflows.
🌱 Green Technology
Hera and garden-related applications.
🚀 Space
Space-oriented software and simulation demonstrations.
The event becomes a bridge between:
open-source development and physical experimentation.
🔮 What's Next?
The next phase of MyZubster can focus on five areas.
1. More Physical Robots
Move additional software projects onto real hardware.
2. Better Vision
Improve object detection, environmental perception and reliability.
3. AI Integration
Connect EVA and other AI components with real sensor and robot events.
4. Payment Integration
Expand physical XMR payment interfaces.
5. Space Simulation
Develop increasingly realistic autonomous mission simulations.
⚠️ A Note About "Complete"
There is an important difference between ecosystem complete and deployment complete.
The current milestone means that the defined software/project architecture and bounty milestones have been assembled.
It does not mean:
- 36 physical robots are already deployed;
- a physical space station exists;
- autonomous medical robots are certified;
- every component is production-ready.
Those require separate engineering, safety, regulatory and physical validation processes.
Being open about this distinction is important.
The objective is to build something that can gradually move from:
idea → code → simulation → hardware → real-world testing.
🚀 Final Thoughts
MyZubster has evolved considerably.
It started with individual robot concepts.
It now combines:
🤖 36 robot projects
🌍 7 sectors
💰 119 XMR in the defined bounty structure
👁️ Computer vision
🧠 AI and EVA
📡 IoT
💳 Physical payment interfaces
🪙 Monero integration
🚀 A space-oriented software sector
🌱 Real-world applications
The next milestone isn't another number.
It's validation.
Take the software.
Put it on hardware.
Connect the sensors.
Test the cameras.
Test the payment flow.
Let the robot operate.
Observe what happens.
Fix what breaks.
Then test again.
That's how an open-source ecosystem moves from code to reality.
And that's the direction MyZubster is taking next.
🚀🤖👁️🧠📡💳🪙🌍
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