First robotics LOI: We started the year off strong with a signed LOI from a client confirming their intent to pilot robots in their stores.
CES and private event in SF: Nils went to CES and then organized an invite-only event in SF to talk about physical AI with the most influential founders, VCs, and enthusiasts in the Silicon Valley robotics community.
FairPrice pilot: Our first pilot in Singapore began with FairPrice, the country's largest retail chain. We made excellent gaussian splats with the K1 scanner as well as good progress on rendering performance with large splats.
Hacker House: Builders were always welcome at Auki, but we made it official by turning our robotics lab into a hacker house.
February
Pressbyrån pilot: The first half of our pilot with Reitan Convenience began with setting up in 10 Pressbyrån stores around Stockholm.
WebXR on Android: Gotu and McKenna became full WebXR experiences on Android.
Cactus Insights: Cactus moved beyond data collection and visualization, and started offering AI-generated insights and suggestions.
Second enterprise client signed: After months of piloting, we finally signed an enterprise deal with one of Denmark's largest grocery retailers.
Euroshop: Together with our new partner Bruegmann, a well-known retail shelving brand, we showed off our domains and Cactus at the world's biggest retail trade fair.
Reconstruction node: Following a successful closed beta period, we launched the reconstruction node to our community.
March
Narvesen pilot: This was our first pilot in Norway, and the second half of our Retain Convenience pilot. Like with Pressbyrån the previous month, we set up 10 Narvesen stores around Oslo.
Booster K1s: After getting 6 Boosters to the lab and had fun setting up a robot soccer pitch and onboarding them to the real world web.
Splatter node: We open sourced the splatter node and launched it publicly. This one produces photorealistic renders of physical spaces.
Budbreak: First vineyard on the real world web! Budbreak is all about using robots to do perception tasks in vineyards, namely detecting crop-destroying diseases.
Galbot G1 and Bracketbot: Two very different robots arrived at Auki, both to be evaluated for retail use cases with different types of clients.
April
RealMan: Barely a week after the Galbot G1, we received our first RealMan semi-humanoid.
InnoEx and Retail Technology Show: InnoEx was our largest domain yet at 20k sqm and 600 booths. We still managed to set up AR navigation for the event in only a day. We also attended Retail Technology Show together with our partner Zappar.
CTRL+R partnership: Teleoperation is a huge use case especially with CPGs, so we partnered with CTRL+R who integrated our robots into their teleoperation platform.
OneShot: Mika returned to our hacker house and demonstrated that interactive AI instruction manuals running on glasses could double the robot setup speed for new users.
SLAM on glasses: Glasses with limited battery can now offload their spatial compute by streaming video to a domain-side GPU machine.
Auki SDK: We started rebuilding our SDK from scratch to make it easier than ever for any device to connect to the real world web. Naturally, we also open sourced it.
Console redesign: After running for years on an old design, our console for domain owners and node operators got a much needed facelift and new features.
June
Galbot G1 and RealMan: Both the Galbot G1 and the RealMan can now scan whole fixtures autonomously.
Swedish PM visits ICA: Surprise!
Galbot S1: This beast of a robot can lift 20kg per arm, and we were given two of them to work on a stealth project with a partner. One is at our lab in HK, and the other is in China at a replica of the target environment.
Cactus: Lots of new features are getting built into Cactus, including a robot control interface, planogram compliance suite, and new camera-based barcode scanner.
On target to sign our third enterprise client and deploy some robots in H2.
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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