Conference Presentation, Keynote, Product Demonstration
Nils Pihl, CEO & Co-Founder, AUKI Labs: Teaching Machines to See the World
- The global economy is projected to grow at least 10x over the next 20 years, driven by a population of approximately 100 billion productive participants, the majority being artificial intelligence.
- Economic activity is expected to accelerate to roughly three times historical rates due to new technologies, including self-driving vehicles that coordinate to eliminate traffic signals.
- Mass deployment of humanoid robots faces significant hurdles, requiring six software layers with the manipulation layer currently lacking development progress.
- Aukey plans to focus its development on the spatial perception, mapping, and positioning layers (layers four, five, and six) of the robot software stack.
- Spatial AI applications in retail are predicted to reduce staff walking distances by 40% during click-and-collect operations and save at least 15 minutes per employee daily through shared augmented reality task management.
- Despite concerns that physical AI might reduce labor dependency, humanoid robotics will instead increase the economy's reliance on physical locations and labor as more physical tasks become unlockable.
- A universal spatial computing protocol is identified as necessary for the Internet to enable devices to share a common understanding of physical space.
- Aukey is developing an app-agnostic, device-agnostic system featuring a network of self-hosted maps to allow clients like Walmart to control access to their data, addressing privacy concerns that hinder cloud-based visual solution adoption.
- Visual positioning is forecasted to replace GPS as the primary positioning technology for robots and glasses, though current methods raise privacy issues regarding visibility into user gaze.
- Humanoid robots will connect to localized maps, such as municipal systems or specific retail store maps, to navigate their environments effectively.
- Deepin is positioned to function as a decentralized nervous system for AI, facilitating access to the physical world through borrowed sensor data from other devices.
- The AI revolution is expected to fully accelerate once the physical world becomes fully accessible to artificial intelligence through market-driven infrastructure decisions.