He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
Key takeaways
- 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.
- Its core software is an SDK that synchronizes video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs with minimal latency.
- This lines up well with the rise of physical AI, and it s part of why the Paris-based startup was able to raise a $5 million round led by Lightspeed, which has also backed Anthropic and Mistral AI.
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.
Convinced that hundreds of millions of robots and drones will be roaming the streets in a few years, this French serial entrepreneur and open-source legend has been building Kyber, an infrastructure layer for controlling remote devices in real time. Its core software is an SDK that synchronizes video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs with minimal latency.
This lines up well with the rise of physical AI, and it s part of why the Paris-based startup was able to raise a $5 million round led by Lightspeed, which has also backed Anthropic and Mistral AI. Physical AI is only as good as the underlying systems running it, the American VC firm wrote in a LinkedIn post announcing its investment.