Field Unit 06: an instrumented Neicrone field unit for Physical AI
History and technology.
Pulled out of the yard and read plate by plate — where Unit 06 came from, and what is actually running inside the mast.
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Tracked chassis with a sealed sensor mast: stereo, spinning LiDAR and thermal on one calibrated head.
- Drivetrain
- Dual track
- Mast
- IP66 sealed
- Compute
- On-device
- State
- Nominal
Unit 06 is the fourth chassis revision in the Neicrone field line. The first two generations ran wheeled platforms built for warehouse floors, not tidal mud — both stalled out within a week of live deployment. The tracked drivetrain and sealed sensor mast that replaced them have logged uninterrupted duty since.
T0DrivetrainDUAL TRACK · SEALED BOGIE
Independently driven tracks with a sealed bogie assembly, chosen after the wheeled Gen-2 prototype stalled out in mud within its first week in the field.
T1Sensor mastSTEREO + LIDAR + THERMAL
Stacked stereo pair, spinning LiDAR, and a thermal channel on a mast sealed to IP66, holding calibration through wash-downs and standing water.
T2Edge computeON-DEVICE TRIAGE
Perception and bandwidth-aware triage run on the unit itself, so only the rare event leaves the mast before the nightly upload window.
T3TelemetryCAN BUS · GNSS · IMU
CAN bus, GNSS, and IMU state normalised into one queryable timeline, timestamp-aligned to every frame the mast records.