Humanoids, Floorcraft, and a New Listing: Auki’s Week on the Road

Checking In From San Francisco

This week’s update came from a WeWork in San Francisco instead of our Hong Kong HQ — Nils is in California for a bit, meeting partners, investors, and clients to talk expansion.

Even though the call was short, it was a dense one: live humanoid navigation in real venues, a new AR game initiative, and another exchange listing driven entirely by the community.

Terri Goes to a Conference

Last week, we showed our first large-scale autonomous humanoid navigation in the lab: our Unitree G1 robot, Terri, woke up with no memory of ever having been here, downloaded a map from our network, and walked the space on his own.

This week, we took that same demo out into the world.

We:

• Went to two conferences in Hong Kong – WOW Summit and Rethink
• Mapped each venue and added it to the real world web, our network’s spatial layer
• Placed a few of our portal QR codes in the space
• Brought Terri, who had never “seen” either venue before

When Terri arrived and saw a portal QR, he:

1. Identified the marker
2. Asked the network where he was and which edge node to talk to
3. Downloaded the venue map
4. Started navigating autonomously

On the screen we showed:

• The downloaded map
• Terri’s purple LiDAR perception overlaid as he walked
• Phil very deliberately not touching the remote

We also wired Terri into the same AR navigation system visitors used on their phones. For visitors, the interface was a normal “go to this booth” app. For Terri, we built a version that sent the same destinations to the robot.

What makes this special isn’t just “humanoid walks around a conference” — people have seen that before. The difference is where the map lives. This map didn’t live inside the robot. The map lived on the real world web… it was made by other visiting devices.

So Terri navigated using an external sense of space, not his own internal map. That’s a big step toward robots that can turn up in a new venue, connect to our network, and just work.

Pitching America’s Top Retailers

On Tuesday we were in Los Angeles at a Plug and Play event focused on retail. Plug and Play is a well-known US VC, but in this case they were acting as a connector between a curated group of startups and America’s largest retailers, multi-billion-dollar companies.

Even though Plug and Play isn’t an investor in us (yet), they invited us “by popular demand” – their partners specifically asked for us to be included.

Nils gave a tight 60-second opening pitch explaining who we are and what the network does. Then he sat down with five major retailers to talk about deploying AI copilots and robots in their environments.

The focus was very practical: how to use our network and products like Cactus to make their physical spaces AI-accessible, and then layer in robots over time instead of jumping straight to “full robot store.”

We also quietly onboarded a new Canadian distribution partner this week. Details will come later, but it’s part of our push to have local partners running point with major retailers in each region.

Floorcraft 2.0: AR Game as On-Network Demo

We then brought on a special guest: Darko, a former Auki/Matterless engineer, who’s now coming back as a grantee to reboot and extend Floorcraft.

Floorcraft history in one line: it was one of our first shared AR demos back in ~2022, a multiplayer game that ran on our spatial stack and showed how the network could keep AR content in sync in the same physical space. But:

• It never got an Android version
• The domain integration was rough
• It sat as a cool prototype, not a product

Darko reached out with a plan to fix that, and we’ve agreed to support it with a grant.

Tracy walked through the roadmap:

1. Wallet integration
   • Players connect wallets
   • Auki holders get special in-game perks (better units, cosmetics, etc.)
   • Playing Floorcraft inside a domain yields rewards to players and domain owners
2. Domain + NFT support
   • If a venue has minted its domain as an NFT, it can receive rewards when players play there
   • Visiting and playing in specific domains becomes a rewardable, trackable activity
3. Android version + robustness
   • Proper Android build so we can finally run community games (our earlier attempt was iOS-only and buggy)
   • More reliable domain integration so it works in real venues, not just our office

Nils then added: “We’ll be able to place rewards in different parts of these retail environments… to prove to retailers and brands that we can use shared augmented reality to drive traffic to different parts of the store that they find interesting.”

So Floorcraft 2.0 becomes:

• A fun on-network game for the community
• A real “AR quests in your store” demo for brands and agencies
• Another example of how domains, NFTs and our network can work together in a physical space

New Listing: AUKI/EUR on LCX

Finally, a quick but important update: we’re now listed on LCX, with an AUKI/EUR trading pair.

The best part: this listing cost us nothing, because the community drove it. LCX ran a poll asking which token to list next, and our community really rallied and voted for us.

Special shoutout to DarkWolves for weeks of organizing, reminders, and rallying in the Discord and on X. This is exactly the kind of “network effects through community” we hoped for when we launched the token.

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Watch the whole update on X.

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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