Auki Labs company profile
Auki Labs develops spatial-intelligence infrastructure for machines and digital agents. Its posemesh network gives devices shared positioning and spatial context, helping robots, AR systems and smart devices understand physical geometry without relying only on centralized visual maps.
Facts
- Segment: Spatial Intelligence
- Country: Hong Kong
- Founded: 2019
- Website: https://www.aukilabs.com
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Products
- Facts
- Funding
- Investors
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Operations / Deployments
- Team
- Relationships
- Context tags
- Customers and deployments
- Sources
Summary
Auki Labs develops spatial-intelligence infrastructure for machines and digital agents. Its posemesh network gives devices shared positioning and spatial context, helping robots, AR systems and smart devices understand physical geometry without relying only on centralized visual maps.
Market context
Spatial computing and decentralized perception infrastructure for robots and AI; posemesh protocol and interoperable 3D maps and positioning. Auki Labs is building core perception and spatial computing infrastructure that enables robots and AI agents to collaboratively map, localize, and reason about physical space.
- Capability: Spatial reasoning and mapping for robotic navigation and perception
- Capability: Decentralized Visual Positioning Systems that allow robots to localize without GPS
- Capability: Shared spatial maps that can be consumed by heterogeneous robot fleets
- Capability: Integration support for existing robotics platforms (e.g., Unitree, Padbot, Slamtec)
- Strategic position: Auki Labs occupies an upstream infrastructure layer focused on spatial perception and decentralized machine understanding of 3D environments. This enables robots to mov…
Products
- Cactus
- Gotu
- Posemesh Protocol
Facts
- Website: https://www.aukilabs.com
- HQ: Kowloon Bay, Hong Kong
- Founded: 2019
- Ticker: AUKI / Crypto
- Segment: Spatial Intelligence
- Known funding rounds: 1
Funding
- 2022-03-22 - Seed - $13M - Auki Labs raises $13M seed round led by Animoca Brands - source: businessinsider.com
Investors
- Animoca Brands - Participant - Angel / Individual - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-03-22
- Kenetic - Participant - Unknown - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-03-22
- Outlier Ventures - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-03-22
- Shima Capital - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2022-03-22
Spatial computing infrastructure for robots and AI
Auki Labs builds the posemesh, a decentralized spatial computing protocol for shared machine perception and physical-world localization.
- Target environment: Smart retail, robotic navigation, spatial AI systems, AR environments, indoor spaces and machine perception networks.
- Deployment model: Open spatial computing protocol, developer tools and decentralized infrastructure for devices, robots and AI systems.
- Customer context: Robotics developers, AR developers, retail technology teams, AI builders and machine perception ecosystem participants.
- Workflow context: Shared spatial data, collaborative localization, machine perception, indoor positioning, spatial search and robot-accessible maps.
- Commercial maturity: Early infrastructure company with public posemesh tooling and developer ecosystem activity.
- Market position: Spatial intelligence infrastructure company serving localization and shared perception for robots and AI.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on developer adoption, spatial data density, device participation, latency, privacy, accuracy and real deployment demand.
- Adjacent context: Adjacent context includes spatial computing, robot localization, collaborative perception, DePIN networks and real-world AI infrastructure.
- Source confidence: high
Events
- 2026-04-30 - Partnership - Auki partners with CTRL+R for unified robot teleoperation interface - Auki said it has partnered with CTRL+R to give customers a unified interface for robot control.
- 2026-03-20 - Capability - Auki demos subtractive scanning for map maintenance - Introduced subtractive scanning for collaborative map maintenance
- 2026-03-06 - Demonstration - Auki demos live teleoperation for retail inspections - Demonstrated live teleoperation for retail planogram inspections
- 2026-03-06 - Deployment - Auki connects Budbreak vineyard robots to its network - Budbreak vineyard robots were connected to the Auki network
- 2026-02-23 - Capability - Auki receives six Booster K1 robots in Hong Kong lab - Six Booster K1 robots arrived at Auki's Hong Kong lab
- 2026-02-05 - Deployment - Auki rolls out Scandinavian retail pilot - Said it was running a major retail pilot in Scandinavia
- 2026-01-26 - Facility Opening - Auki opens Hong Kong robotics lab to external developers - Opened the doors of its Hong Kong headquarters to external developers
- 2026-01-10 - Partnership - Auki signs LOI with major European retailer - Signed an LOI and agreed terms with one of Europe''s biggest retailers
- 2025-12-12 - Deployment - Auki initiates Norwegian pilot for store setup - • Auki conducted a pilot deployment of its Cactus app in Norway, enabling customer-led store setup in hours.
- 2025-12-07 - Market Signal - Auki Plans Deployment of 500 Semi-Humanoid Robots in 2026 - Auki aims to deploy approximately 500 semi-humanoid robots in grocery stores by 2026.
- 2025-12-01 - Market Signal - Auki's paid pilots now represent over 6,500 retail locations - • Auki's paid pilots now include over 6,500 retail locations across multiple enterprise chains.
- 2025-11-12 - Partnership - Auki Labs partners with GAIB on retail humanoid deployment in 2026 - Auki Labs and GAIB announced a partnership dated Nov 12, 2025 targeting retail humanoid deployment starting in 2026.
- 2025-07-07 - Partnership - Auki expands to peaq ecosystem via token bridge and MachineX trading pair - Auki announced that $AUKI had been bridged to peaq
- 2025-06-12 - Market Signal - Auki Labs showcases next-gen spatial computing experiences at AWE USA 2025 powered by NVIDIA - Auki Labs showcased next-generation spatial computing experiences at AWE USA 2025
- 2025-06-02 - Partnership - Auki Labs joins NVIDIA Inception to accelerate robotics, retail, and logistics development - Auki Labs joined NVIDIA Inception to accelerate development of its AI-powered spatial computing tec…
- 2025-05-30 - Market Signal - Auki Secures First 7-Figure ARR Enterprise Deal - • Auki signed a 7-figure annual recurring revenue client, finalizing a deal that had been in implementation for some time.
- 2025-04-18 - Partnership - Auki partners with Mentra on smart-glasses spatial positioning - Auki said it partnered with Mentra to demonstrate smart glasses integrated with Auki's decentralized visual positioning system
- 2025-02-14 - Company Formation - Intercognitive Foundation launches with Auki Labs, peaq, Mawari, and GEODNET as founding members - Intercognitive Foundation launches to promote infrastructure and protocols that make th…
- 2025-02-14 - Partnership - Auki Network and GEODNET collaborate on AI accessibility - • Auki Network and GEODNET co-founded the Intercognitive Foundation with peaq and Mawari.
- 2025-01-10 - Partnership - Auki partners with Zappar on app-free augmented reality - Auki said it was working in London with Zappar to finalize app-free augmented reality experiences
- 2024-12-27 - Product Launch - Auki launches Cactus and starts its first multi-store pilot - Auki said it combined several retail operation apps for spatial tasks, product layout, and product search into a rebranded prod…
- 2024-12-27 - Deployment - Auki begins its first multi-store Cactus pilot in Sweden - Auki said the team traveled to Sweden to set up domains in 5 stores for its first multi-store Cactus pilot.
- 2024-12-13 - Capability - Auki details its robotics platform progress and mobile vision system - Auki published a detailed look at its robotics work, describing a mobile vision platform built on Slamtec's Athena 2 platf…
- 2024-09-04 - Market Signal - Auki's Posemesh token receives its first centralized exchange listing on MEXC - Auki announced that the Posemesh token $AUKI would begin trading on MEXC on September 4, 2024 at 3 PM UTC.
Operations / Deployments
- 2026-02-05 - Deployment - Auki rolls out Scandinavian retail pilot - Said it was running a major retail pilot in Scandinavia
- 2025-12-12 - Deployment - Auki initiates Norwegian pilot for store setup - • Auki conducted a pilot deployment of its Cactus app in Norway, enabling customer-led store setup in hours.
- 2024-12-27 - Product Launch - Auki launches Cactus and starts its first multi-store pilot - Auki said it combined several retail operation apps for spatial tasks, product layout, and product search into a rebranded prod…
- 2024-12-27 - Deployment - Auki begins its first multi-store Cactus pilot in Sweden - Auki said the team traveled to Sweden to set up domains in 5 stores for its first multi-store Cactus pilot.
Team
- Nils Pihl - Founder and CEO
- Santeri Aramo - Founder & Advisor
- Phil Shaw - Head of Robotics
Relationships
- Budbreak Innovations - partner - Budbreak vineyard robots were connected to the Auki network; Auki described the deployment as the first vineyard on the real world web and framed it around spatial reasoning and field ro…
- partner - Auki Labs and GAIB are partners.
- Intercognitive Foundation - founding_member - Auki Labs is a founding member of Intercognitive Foundation.
- partner - Auki partnered with Zappar to develop app-free augmented reality experiences, reducing friction for consumer AR by removing app downloads.
- partner - Auki partnered with Mentra to demonstrate smart glasses integrated with Auki's decentralized visual positioning system, with a planned showcase at AWE.
- partner - Auki bridged the $AUKI token to peaq and enabled a $AUKI/$PEAQ trading pair on MachineX, deepening collaboration following the Intercognitive Foundation launch.
- technology_partner - Auki partners with CTRL+R for unified robot teleoperation interface.
Context tags
- VPS spatial mapping - Workflow - Auki builds shared spatial maps and VPS anchoring infrastructure.
- Visual positioning system - Peer Group - Auki provides visual positioning and pose infrastructure for machines.
- Visual localization - Capability - Auki provides visual localization and spatial pose estimation.
- Spatial mapping platform - Stack Layer - Auki supplies a spatial mapping and VPS infrastructure platform.
- Spatial intelligence infrastructure - Peer Group - Auki Labs builds spatial intelligence infrastructure for AI and AR.
- Visual SLAM and mapping - Workflow - Auki supports visual SLAM and camera-based spatial mapping.
- Spatial computing environments - Customer Environment - Auki serves spatial computing and AR/AI environments.
Customers and deployments
- Deployment Event - 1 source-backed deployment event - 2026-03-06 - Auki connects Budbreak vineyard robots to its network - source posture: Company Disclosed
- Deployment Event - 1 source-backed deployment event - 2026-02-05 - Auki rolls out Scandinavian retail pilot - source posture: Company Disclosed
- Deployment Event - 1 source-backed deployment event - 2024-12-27 - Auki begins its first multi-store Cactus pilot in Sweden - source posture: Company Disclosed
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