March 16, 2025

Auki community update recap: Mar 16, 2025

Robotics Advancements, App Innovations, and Fundraising Progress

In the latest community update on March 16, 2025, Santeri shared exciting advancements in robotics, key improvements to apps, fundraising momentum, and strategic initiatives for decentralizing the network.

Robotics Integration and Partnerships

Auki is actively expanding its robotics integration, especially within China, thanks to the tireless efforts of our robotics team led by Phil. Recent discussions with Agibot, known for innovative humanoid and service robots, highlight potential collaborations. Agibot's latest small humanoid robot, capable of remarkable feats like riding a bicycle, illustrates the dynamic potential of this partnership. Phil also achieved a significant milestone by integrating PadBot onto the Cactus retail app, enabling promotional activities and product navigation.

Phil remarked, "We're driving around doing promotion, and if interrupted, the robot guides you to any product you want. It's a big upsell on what we can provide."

App Updates

Auki's apps saw notable improvements, particularly in the Domain Management Tool (DMT) and Cactus:

  • DMT: Introduced real-time drift and rotation correction, significantly enhancing in-store visual positioning accuracy. A new mini-map feature supports easier verification of adjustments.
  • Cactus: Implemented a comprehensive heat map solution and an innovative route optimization tool, significantly reducing stock picking travel time by over 40% based on internal simulations.

Fundraising and Strategic Financial Initiatives

Auki continues robust fundraising activities, attracting considerable interest from VCs who appreciate deep technical discussions beyond token liquidity matters. The unique dual-structure fundraising, offering token-based infrastructure investments and equity-based app investments (Cactus), has generated substantial positive feedback.

On the token side, Auki is exploring delegated staking to lower barriers for node setup. Santeri emphasized, "Tokens must perform real utility tasks. We won't reward just holding and staking; tokens need to do actual jobs."

Security and Technical Challenges

Auki reported recent challenges associated with the multi-sig processes, notably due to the ByBit and Safe Global hack, prompting comprehensive security enhancements.

Upcoming Node and Decentralization Efforts

Preparations continue for launching the third type of Auki node—the Reconstruction Node. Essential for decentralizing visual positioning, this node converts RGB video data into dense point clouds, enabling environmental understanding for robots.

Community Engagement and Strategic Collaborations

Santeri highlighted Terri’s engagement at an Animoca Brands event focused on DePIN and robotics, underscoring strategic alignment with innovative data crowdsourcing initiatives like FrodoBots.

Intercognitive Launch

The launch of Intercognitive is nearing completion, pending finalization of governance structures and treasury management. Discussions continue on adopting DAOs, potentially leveraging agentic AI to manage governance efficiently and fairly.

Santeri noted, "I'm exploring companies deploying agentic AI for DAO governance, as this could mitigate human emotional bias and enhance DAO efficacy."

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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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