COO Santeri Aramo announced significant progress in Auki's SDK this week with the introduction of the "Job Manager," enabling distributed refinement across multiple machines. This development allows the processing of extensive spatial data efficiently, supporting large-scale implementations like massive retail spaces. As Santeri describes, "this unlocks a huge scale of development."
Auki also made remarkable strides with its Gotu Navigation application, now available app-free through App Clips. The enhanced UI and editing capabilities directly within the app clip are set to revolutionize navigation for users across various settings, from retail stores and hotels to airports and hospitals. The app-free format promises easier, faster navigation without the hassle of downloads.
Cactus, Auki’s retail-focused spatial application, saw significant deployment improvements this week. Optimizations have reduced CPU and GPU demands, enabling faster load times and smoother operations. On-the-ground store engagement has reportedly surged, with enthusiastic user feedback from retail staff driving further adoption.
In the U.S., a remarkable pilot project highlighted the efficiency of Cactus. An operator scanned around 2,700 products within a single day, showcasing the system's powerful capabilities. Additionally, Auki identified an exciting new use case during retail remodeling projects, enabling retailers and vendors to visualize and track products dynamically, creating immediate, actionable Realograms.
This week marked the integration of Unity asset imports directly into Mattercraft, accessible through McKenna. The augmented reality platform demonstrated its commercial viability at the LIV Golf Tournament, securing a $10,000 contract, underscoring the potential for community-driven monetization through AR installations.
In robotics, Auki celebrated a major breakthrough by successfully integrating Unitree’s G1 robot into the posemesh spatial domain. This accomplishment opens vast possibilities for robotics interactions within the posemesh environment. Although one partnership with a European robotics firm did not materialize, Auki highlighted promising collaborations with agile Chinese robotics manufacturers, emphasizing the rapid innovation potential in this sector.
Auki is deeply involved in Hong Kong’s pioneering vision for a low-altitude economy. With drone operations expanding rapidly, the posemesh network offers essential shared spatial awareness crucial for coordinating autonomous flying vehicles safely and efficiently. This development highlights the growing necessity for decentralized, peer-to-peer spatial systems to support a secure, autonomous aerial infrastructure.
Finally, Auki announced that its Level 10 Research Center now features a fully-equipped event stage, fostering community events and innovative demonstrations. This vibrant hub is already hosting pioneering startups like Alpha AI, further cementing Auki’s role as a leader in spatial computing and decentralized AI technologies.
Auki is making the physical world accessible to AI by building the real world web: away for robots and digital devices like smart glasses and phones to browse, navigate, and search physical locations.
70% of the world economy is still tied to physical locations and labor, so making the physical world accessible to AI represents a 3X increase in the TAM of AI in general. Auki's goal is to become the decentralized nervous system of AI in the physical world, providing collaborative spatial reasoning for the next 100bn devices on Earth and beyond.
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