He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he’s doing that for robots.
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Open-source legend building real-time device infrastructure, directly relevant to platform engineering and robotics.
Summary
Jean-Baptiste Kempf, creator of VLC Media Player (6B+ downloads), founded Kyber to build an open-source infrastructure layer for real-time remote control of robots, drones, and devices. Its SDK synchronizes video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs with minimal latency, addressing the scale challenge of managing millions of devices. The Paris-based startup raised $5M from Lightspeed (backers of Anthropic and Mistral AI) and is already deployed in defense, telco, robotics, and remote IT access.