Auki
@Auki
Making the physical world accessible to AI by building the real world web for robots and intelligent machines.
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- Overview of component based architecture in the Auki SDK
- Design data pipelines at runtime so components talk to each other
- Result: robot 1 sees a cup that robot 2 doesn't, but robot 2 knows where it is anyway and can point at it
- Demo of volumetric triggers for robots
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Smarter spaces create smarter robots
There will be more robots than cars and smart phones combined within 10 years. Bookmark this.
Happy Halloween! 🎃👻
No tricks or treats here though. Trauma only.
Robots & Beers are the best events in the HK robotics community.
Don't miss the next one on Nov 12, two weeks from today:
Signed over 1000 locations already, with one new store coming online every day.
Nils @broodsugar talks about how @Auki will shift retail industry.
Preview: no-code building of spatial data pipelines — drag and drop or ask your agent to do it.
Example: Send video from robot A to node B which blurs people, then to node C running CV, then drop it in robot D's map.
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No matter how good the tech gets, cultural acceptance will be the final boss for robot deployments.
What better time to start than when they're young?Happy to host PolyU x YWCA's initiative to introduce robotics to disadvantaged kids in HK. 🤍
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Our @CactusXR playbook is getting out.
the only way to succeed as a robotics company, is to provide value without needing any robots in the first place.
Bring your own model (Qwen running on Jetson Thor in this case) to your domain, give it the spatial harness, and boom.
Any model can leverage Cactus data, spatio-semantic or any other data in your domain, and even robots or other devices.
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Wifi dead zones are common in large spaces, and can be pretty bad for robots especially if they're being tele-operated.
Step 1 of fixing that is autonomous signal surveying and mapping, demoed here by our in-house robot Scentinel.
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Backing both Auki and Budbreak for the double win
Scaling up our gaussian splatting experiments with a 100-meter domain.
Data from Budbreak who's building perception robots for vineyards. 🍇
Do you think retailers would spend 0.5% of their revenue on physical AI — the most powerful tool they've ever had?
That's already $125 billion. It's a big pie, and we've got a head start on cutting out a slice.
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How big can physical AI in retail get?
Nils from @Auki shares the numbers here, from signed locations to 2027 deployments:
▪️ Auki has already signed over 1,000 locations for @CactusXR
▪️ The project plans to deploy over 1,000 robot store managers in 2027, connected to Cactus and delivered to existing customers
▪️ Retail could spend over $125 billion on physical AI within 5 years
This is what a clear plan looks like: a product and signed locations today, robot deployments planned for 2027 and over $125 billion in retail spending expected within 5 years👀
imho the future looks bright 🦾
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Going from demo store to live store means introducing people and other obstacles.
Obviously "don't run into the shopper" is best learned in SIM, so we're working on that too with simulated pedestrians in a reconstruction of our office.
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Smart homes and spaces on steroids: give your physical AI harness to any LLM and you can query/prompt it.
Of course, your robots plug right in, out of the box.
Nils recently gave a keynote at the Humanoid Hub conference on our core thesis of the real world web and why we're making environments smarter while everyone else is only focused on the robots.
For yesterday's community update he went through it again. 👇
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What is the real world web?
Did we mention we were the only ones with a robot demo at NACS last week?
Feels good to be ahead.
