April 18, 2025

Auki community update recap: Apr 18, 2025

Smart Glasses, Robotics Integration, and AI Innovations

Major Milestones with Mentra Smart Glasses

This week marked an exciting breakthrough as Auki partnered with Mentra to demonstrate smart glasses integrated with Auki's decentralized visual positioning system (VPS). These lightweight glasses, weighing under 45 grams, accurately identified their spatial location using camera data matched with decentralized VPS data. Auki and Mentra will showcase this technology at AWE, the world’s largest AR conference, featuring a simulated apartment and store environment.

PadBot Partnership for Robot Integration

The Auki team visited Guangzhou for strategic discussions with PadBot, a leading robotics firm known for its restaurant and hospitality robots. PadBot’s international distributor, Allset Robotics, will soon join Auki’s Hong Kong office space. Integrating PadBot’s robots with the Auki network enables collaborative spatial mapping, simplifying robot deployment for businesses. This reduces installation complexities, making robots more accessible to small businesses.

Transformative Robot Distribution Strategy

Nils unveiled an innovative approach to robot distribution, emphasizing logistics networks and rapid aftermarket support to handle repairs efficiently. This strategy significantly enhances scalability, aiming for thousands of robot deployments this year. Containerized repair facilities and standardized training programs are central to this ambitious expansion plan.

Retail Sector Expansion

Auki continues to tackle significant challenges in retail, where suboptimal inventory management results in nearly a trillion dollars in losses globally. By incorporating spatial AI and robotics, Auki aims to mitigate stockouts and improve shelf space usage. Major retail pilots are underway in Denmark, Poland, Germany, and the United States, potentially generating substantial on-chain token burns from application usage.

Innovative Domain-side LLMs

Nils announced an exciting new engineering initiative—domain-side Large Language Models (LLMs). These localized AI models offer privacy-preserving interactions and specialized retail assistance directly within retail domains. They enable real-time, in-store assistance for personalized shopping experiences, drastically enhancing customer engagement.

The update concluded by inviting community developers and collaborators to participate in further innovations, emphasizing the significant progress and upcoming developments across AR, robotics, and decentralized AI.

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About Auki Labs

Auki is building the Auki network, a decentralized machine perception network for the next 100 billion people, devices and AI on Earth and beyond. The Auki network is a posemesh, an external and collaborative sense of space that machines and AI can use to understand the physical world.

Our mission is to improve civilization’s intercognitive capacity; our ability to think, experience and solve problems together with each other and AI. The greatest way to extend human reach is to collaborate with others. We are building consciousness-expanding technology to reduce the friction of communication and bridge minds.

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About the Auki network

The Auki network is a posemesh: a decentralized machine perception network and collaborative spatial computing protocol, designed to allow digital devices to securely and privately exchange spatial data and computing power to form a shared understanding of the physical world.

The Auki network is an open-source protocol that powers a decentralized, blockchain-based spatial computing network. Designed for a future where spatial computing is both collaborative and privacy-preserving, it limits any organization's surveillance capabilities and encourages sovereign ownership of private maps of personal and public spaces.

The decentralization also offers a competitive advantage, especially in shared spatial computing sessions, AR for example, where low latency is crucial.

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