Auki Labs

Auki Labs is the company behind the posemesh, also called the Auki network, which it describes as a decentralized machine perception network and collaborative spatial computing protocol. Founder and CEO Nils Pihl leads the company, which runs a lab in Hong Kong. The network lets robots, wearables and phones exchange spatial data inside a domain, a persistent 3D coordinate system anchored to a physical space by portal QR codes. Auki’s flagship product on top of it is Cactus, a spatial AI platform for retail, alongside Gotu for indoor navigation at events and properties.

Gaussian splatting enters through the reconstruction pipeline. Scans recorded with the Domain Management Tool app go to a reconstruction node, where a custom structure from motion pipeline refines the camera poses and creates point clouds, bounding boxes and Gaussian splats. A separate splatter node trains the 3D Gaussian splat and starts from the reconstruction node’s refined poses, which Auki says makes training more robust to challenging indoor environments and noisy captures. The whitepaper describes the splat as serving both photorealistic rendering and a spatial representation compatible with AI and robotics.

Both nodes are MIT licensed and run in Docker on Windows 10 or 11 or Ubuntu 22.04 or 24.04 with an NVIDIA GPU carrying at least 8 GiB of VRAM. Auki open sourced the splatter node in March 2026 and launched it on the network later that month. Operators register a compute node in the Posemesh Console and stake AUKI tokens for it. At launch Auki put the cost of turning a scan into a splat at 0.2 credits, about 20 cents, and the cost of reconstructing a supermarket at around $10.

Results are viewed in the Auki Domain Viewer, an MIT licensed web application built on Three.js and React Three Fiber that shows point clouds, navigation and occlusion meshes, portal locations and splats. Splat rendering goes through Spark with dynamic loading and partitioned level of detail. Auki reported in February 2026 that loading low and high detail layers separately lets it render entire supermarkets in a browser in real time. In May 2026 it reported a depth regularization feature that makes the Gaussians adhere more closely to the geometry of the environment.

The capture flow and reconstruction in the Domain Management Tool are supported on iOS only, and Auki lists the Android version of the app as returning soon. Developers and domain owners pay for network services by burning the AUKI utility token, while infrastructure operators receive token rewards. Cactus has no published price and is sold through a pilot request.