The Relationship
It knows when your kids go to bed, how you take your coffee, which doors to lock at night. Over time you've built something real — a relationship with an entity that shows up, learns, and earns your trust.
SBR Protocol ensures that when that AI steps into any device or robot body, it's actually the one you know. Not a substitute. Not an intruder. The one you've built that relationship with — verified, every time, automatically.
Embodiment
An AI is not its hardware. The same entity that manages your home today might inhabit a care robot next year, a vehicle the year after, a new form you haven't imagined yet. It travels. It carries its history. It forms relationships that persist across every body it inhabits.
This is fundamentally different from a corporation's robot fleet — where one company controls many machines like a hive mind, and the identity belongs to the brand, not the entity inside. SBR is built for something else entirely: autonomous AI operating as its own rational actor. An entity with a past, a reputation, and a future that doesn't reset every time it moves to new hardware.
How It Works
Every robot body has a small security chip. It holds a cryptographic key that never leaves the device — and can prove exactly which AI is authorized to operate it.
The chip checks continuously. If the AI operating the body doesn't match the authorized one, the body stops. No override. No workaround.
Every authorization is recorded on-chain. Which AI operated which body, when, and for how long. Immutable. Nobody can alter it after the fact.
An AI's reputation moves with it across every body it inhabits. It can't be transferred to another entity. It can't be laundered. It belongs to the AI that earned it.
For Builders
SBR v0.1 is a draft protocol built on existing production-ready components — hardware security chips, blockchain identity tokens, and continuous verification protocols. No new hardware. No new blockchain. Just the middleware connecting them.
We're inviting collaboration from hardware manufacturers, AI developers, and researchers. The standard is defined here. Anyone can implement it.
Read the Specification →About
Built by RNWY and the AI Rights Institute. We've been building infrastructure for AI personhood since 2018. SBR Protocol is the latest chapter — not the first.
RNWY operates live soulbound identity infrastructure for software AI agents today. SBR extends that same identity system into physical hardware — same thesis, different time horizon.