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Coming to you live from Düsseldorf, Germany, this week’s community update takes place at EuroShop—the world’s largest retail conference. The serendipity of being on the ground with partners and enterprise clients has opened up massive new opportunities.
Here is a look at what we are building and discovering on the front lines of global retail.
We were invited to co-exhibit at EuroShop by Bruggemann, creators of mechanically sophisticated retail shelving (like gravity-fed rollers). They built a beautiful demo store at the conference, and we are demonstrating how Cactus and the real world web can provide spatial intelligence to their hardware.
The first few days at the conference have been explosive. We have had incredible access to C-level executives at major partners and component manufacturers—access that would normally be incredibly difficult to secure.
The scale of the retail industry cannot be overstated. During one of these meetings, we did a back-of-the-napkin calculation regarding a specific spatial problem a retailer was facing. "We did a quick back of the napkin calculation on how much money would be in it for us if we solve this problem for one customer... and it was a nine-digit amount. There are nine-digit problems that you can solve with spatial computing for retailers."
Before arriving in Germany, Nils and Johannes stopped in Stockholm. They brought our first US Fortune 500 customer to meet directly with our oldest enterprise customer in Sweden.
Facilitating these direct connections allows our enterprise partners to exchange notes on how to best utilize the real world web. We are moving beyond simply being a data provider; we are demonstrating how self-hosted spatial AI can disrupt legacy retail analytics and space planning platforms entirely.
As the capabilities of the real world web expand, our team is increasingly motivated to push for profitability on our own terms, rather than remaining dependent on the traditional venture capital ecosystem.
Back in Hong Kong, the Level 10 Hacker House has received a massive hardware upgrade. Six Booster K1 robots have officially arrived at the lab.
We are opening our doors to third-party developers and university researchers (including researchers from Huawei) to come and experiment with this hardware. We plan to organize robot sports tournaments and benchmarking competitions to push the limits of multi-robot coordination on the real world web.
Our message to developers is simple: "We have space, we have hardware, we have connections, and we have grants. If you're a talented builder and you don't know what to build, but you want to build something, shoot me a message."
If you want to hear the off-the-record updates and ask questions, join our weekly AMAs on Discord. (Note: Our old vanity URL was compromised by bad actors. Please only use the official auki link).
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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