Strategic Partnerships, Retail Insights, and Network Enhancements

This week's update brings news about significant partnerships, valuable insights from retail implementations, and ongoing improvements in our decentralized network.

Strategic partnerships

We announced two important partnerships:

• Toyota Material Handling: Otherwise known as Toyota Forklifts, Toyota Material Handling has 25% of the global forklift market. We're collaborating with themto enhance smart warehouse solutions. Toyota can now recommend our technology to their customers, vastly expanding our sales channels. We showcased our technology alongside Toyota at their recent international event in Marseille, France.
• Mars Inc: A new partnership with Mars centers around the "store of the future." While specifics are under NDA, this collaboration positions us to potentially expand into thousands of new locations through Mars' network, significantly increasing our reach.

Retail implementation and insights

Our retail analytics technology continues to provide practical insights for clients. A major retailer discovered through our spatial analytics that only two out of eight electric toothbrushes on their shelves were generating significant sales—a detail previously missed by their conventional analytics. This example highlights how spatial analytics offers clear and actionable retail insights quickly.

Additionally, Tracy and the team have begun a new paid pilot rollout in Denmark. Initially covering three stores, this implementation has the potential to scale to all 1,900 locations, significantly broadening our deployments.

Advancing robotics and AI

We held discussions with two innovative companies specializing in robot training data, exploring necessary advancements to bring consumer-ready humanoid robots closer to reality. The outlined essentials include:

• Locomotion models
• Manipulation models
• Mapping capabilities
• Positioning accuracy
• Perception abilities
• Application layers

The Auki Network specifically targets the mapping, positioning, and perception layers, vital yet underrepresented areas crucial for interoperability in robotics.

GitHub and network improvements

Ongoing improvements are happening on our GitHub repository, notably regarding the launch of reconstruction nodes. This advancement will allow community members to run nodes that process spatial reconstructions, offering new earning opportunities and practical utilities. The upcoming update aims to leverage consumer-grade GPUs for short, practical workloads, making decentralized compute more accessible and efficient.

Tokenomics considerations

Due to changes in use case priorities since our original tokenomics design, we're considering a significant burn of tokens currently held by the foundation, potentially reducing the total supply. This would enhance the network's sustainability and align better with current use cases. Community feedback on this topic is welcome and valuable.

Robotics partnerships and deployments

Our robotics initiatives continue advancing, particularly with Padbot, a prominent robot manufacturer in China. Integration with the highly anticipated EngineAI humanoid robot is also expected soon.

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About Auki

Auki is making the physical world accessible to AI by building the real world web: a way 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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