VLC creator Jean-Baptiste Kempf launches Kyber for real-time robot control
Tags OSS · Robotics · IoT
French serial entrepreneur Jean-Baptiste Kempf, best known as the creator of the VLC media player, has launched Kyber — an infrastructure layer for controlling remote devices in real time, targeting robotics and IoT applications. The startup represents a pivot from consumer media software to physical AI infrastructure, leveraging Kempf's expertise in low-latency data streaming. Kyber aims to provide the real-time communication backbone needed for remote robot operation, addressing a key bottleneck in deploying robots in industrial and field environments.
Technical significance
Real-time remote device control is a critical unsolved problem for robotics deployment at scale. If Kyber can deliver reliable low-latency infrastructure for robot teleoperation, it could remove a major barrier to deploying robots in environments where on-board AI is insufficient or too expensive.