Product Enhancements, Robotics Collaborations, and Real-World Deployments

Summer is approaching, and things at Auki are moving fast as we prepare for key events and expand our partnerships and product capabilities. Here's a summary of this week's progress:

Product Developments

This week we made significant improvements across several products:

• Domain Management Tool (DMT) and Cactus: Enhanced user experience, streamlined point cloud management, better 3D heat maps, and intuitive product search and sales tracking.
• McKenna: Major upgrade integrating app clips, making it usable without downloading an app. New editing features will also be accessible, unlocking commercial opportunities and broader community engagement.
• Computer vision: Improved algorithms now effectively detect empty shelves, product facings, and price tags—even in blurry images—on both smartphones and smart glasses.

Robotics and AI Partnerships

Our team visited Shanghai this week, meeting three significant robotics companies:

• Slamtec: Specialists in wheeled robot navigation systems. They're interested in integrating Auki's navmesh solutions into their logistics robots.
• Realman Robotics: Experts in robotic arms and vision systems, impressed by how the Auki network solves key spatial data limitations.
• AgiBot: A large-scale robotics company gathering extensive data to train humanoid robots. They expressed strong interest in partnering with us to enhance real-world robot applications, notably in retail environments.

Auki aims to power 100,000 robots through our network within the next year, significantly accelerating commercial adoption in retail and beyond.

Real-World Retail Deployments

• Denmark Pilot: Our new paid pilot in Denmark has successfully engaged management teams excited by new insights, and there is potential to scale across their 1,900 locations.
• US Market: Multiple proof-of-concept implementations continue positively, with simpler UI making deployment increasingly smooth. A recent partner successfully completed a spatial reconstruction on their first attempt.
• "Toothbrush Gate": In one pilot, spatial heat map analytics uncovered significant sales discrepancies in product categories, revealing that only two out of eight electric toothbrush models were selling effectively—something unnoticed by conventional analytics.

Continued Partnership Development

We're advancing our collaboration with Toyota Material Handling, discussing additional partnership announcements, and receiving renewed interest from retailers initially hesitant but now recognizing broader potential.

Community and Outreach

Santeri's speaking engagement with the Apple Developer Academy in Bali provided valuable insights into spatial computing and robotics trends for new developers. Additionally, our ongoing short-form content strategy continues successfully, with dozens of new videos published weekly exploring the intersection of spatial computing, robotics, and Web3.

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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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