Retail is the perfect environment to deploy robots because it's high value, low cost (perception tasks are easier to get right than manipulation tasks), and low risk.
Happy to have found a partner in @GalbotRobotics who's strategically aligned on this. 🦾
A billion-dollar retail chain has opened up to using Cactus technology.
@Auki is taking a major leap forward with this latest announcement, rolling out its Cactus technology in five Pressbyran stores in Stockholm, with five more deployments already planned.
This announcement represents entry into a retail ecosystem that serves over 800,000 customers per day through 2,000 stores in seven countries.
This positions $AUKI within one of the largest retail organizations in the Nordic and Baltic countries.
To understand the magnitude of this collaboration, it is necessary to contextualize the size of Reitan Convenience.
We are talking about a conglomerate with a turnover of approximately NOK 13.5 billion in 2024 (approximately USD 1.4 billion).
The coming months will be critical.
The completion of deployments in the five additional stores will provide comparative data across different locations and store configurations.
The accumulation of operational data across different seasons and peak periods will validate the robustness of the technology.
Feedback from staff and management will inform product iterations and improvements.
If results continue to be positive, expansion across Reitan Convenience's wider network becomes the natural progression.
From 10 stores to 100, from 100 to 300 Pressbyrån in Sweden, from 300 to 2,000 across all brands and Nordic and Baltic markets.
🚨 The humanoid robot race is missing the point.
Companies are competing on:
▪️How natural the movement looks
▪️How human-like the hands are
▪️How smoothly they walk
In the retail sector, for example, nobody is asking if a robot can walk beautifully.
They’re asking:
▪️Can it spot the gap on shelf 47?
▪️Can it verify that a promotion is set correctly?
▪️Can it scan 10,000 products without missing one?
The challenge is less about locomotion and more about perception, data accuracy, and intelligence.
And perception has a massive advantage:
One perception upgrade = every robot gets smarter instantly.
This is why the @Auki story is compelling:
✅500 robots shipping in 2026
✅Thousands following in 2027
✅Real demand in Asia
✅EU partnerships in place
It’s a simple shift in thinking, but it puts Auki ahead of the curve as humanoid robots move into the real world.
Sales cycles are not the fastest when dealing with big retail enterprises, but proving the value with a few clients now will lead to much faster scaling later.
Vibecode your robots on Dimensional at Auki's HK Hacker House.
We have robots, the real world web, and people building cool physical AI stuff like this. 👇
Even without robots, our next client will pay $500/store/month for Cactus. 🌵
Same as what 1X's NEO costs.
With robots (which they signed an LOI for), they'll be paying much more. Because as we've been saying, perception tasks >> manipulation tasks.
Literally no robotics company has a better humanoid robot deployment strategy than ours. You can't buy Figure and Tesla's robots, and the Chinese ones don't do useful work out of the box.
Clients love our strategy too. More on this in tomorrow's community update—1pm UTC. 😉
🚨 We can’t scale intelligence without a shared reality 🤖
That’s why @Auki makes so much sense to me.
Physical AI is heading for a wall unless we rethink how robots understand the world.
▪️Today, robots operate in closed ecosystems, separate maps, rules and SDKs. Locked spatial data means no shared reality, no universal coordinates, no real interoperability.
What’s missing is a shared spatial layer, an open, neutral foundation for robots and devices.
▪️That’s why open maps matter and why I believe $AUKI is heading in the right direction.
Momentum is building:
✅ Financing in progress for 500 store robots
✅ A recent visit from a European Fortune 500
✅ December is shaping up as crunch time, with a potential final signature around Dec 17
If this lands, 2026 will be huge🙌
This is a live @GalbotRobotics deployment in Beijing, one of several dozen.
We're going to move hundreds (in 2026), and then thousands (in 2027), of these and expand their capabilities.
The Robots Will Need Internet Connectivity Too
New High Signal Podcast with @SamLew_89 & @broodsugar from @AukiNetwork
Produced by: @Proof_Coverage
Topics Discussed:
- Expanding Helium’s TAM to robots too
- Why robots won’t use GPS
- DePIN as AI’s “nervous system”
$AUKI | @Auki is building the Posemesh, a decentralized spatial computing and machine perception network for people, devices, and AI.
Core solutions 👇
➡���Posemesh Protocol: Devices share spatial data securely.
➡️Machine Perception Network: Global shared understanding of the physical world.
➡️Collaborative Spatial Computing: Enables AI, robots, and AR to interact efficiently.
➡️Scalable AI Transactions: Real-time, low-cost exchanges between AI systems.
➡️Universal Spatial Protocol: Standardizes spatial data for seamless interoperability.
$AUKI Roadmap vision ➡️ Giving AI and machines sight and summoning the digital gods.