He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the lead developer of VLC Media Player, has launched a new startup called Kyber to provide infrastructure for remote-controlled robots and drones. The platform uses video-streaming technology to minimize latency for real-time device operation.
Why it matters
As physical AI and robotics become more prevalent, low-latency infrastructure is critical for the safe and efficient remote operation of autonomous systems.
You ve probably used VLC Media Player, the free video player with the orange traffic-cone icon — it s been downloaded more than 6 billion times. But according to its lead developer, Jean-Baptiste Kempf, robots will soon be almost as ubiquitous as his open source video software.
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