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.

アウキ・ラボについて

Aukiはポーズメッシュという地球上、そしてその先の1000億の人々、デバイス、AIのための分散型機械認識ネットワークを構築しています。ポーズメッシュは、機械やAIが物理的世界を理解するために使用可能な、外部的かつ協調的な空間感覚です。

私たちの使命は、人々の相互認知能力、つまり私たちが互いに、そしてAIとともに考え、経験し、問題を解決する能力を向上させることです。人間の能力を拡大させる最も良い方法は、他者と協力することです。私たちは、意識を拡張するテクノロジーを構築し、コミュニケーションの摩擦を減らし、心の橋渡しをします。

ポーズメッシュについて

ポーズメッシュは、分散型で、ブロックチェーンベースの空間コンピューティングネットワークを動かすオープンソースのプロトコルです。

ポーズメッシュは、空間コンピューティングが協調的でプライバシーを保護する未来をもたらすよう設計されています。いかなる組織の監視能力も制限し、空間のプライベートな地図の自己所有権を奨励します。

分散化はまた、特に低レイテンシが重要な共同ARセッションにおいて、競争優位性を有します。ポスメッシュは分散化運動の次のステップであり、成長するテック大手のパワーに対抗するものです。

アウキ・ラボはポスメッシュにより、ポーズメッシュのソフトウェア・インフラの開発を託されました。