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05:20

2026-06-21

techcrunch.com

robotics

He made your free video player run smoothly. Now he's doing that for robots

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player, is building Kyber, an open-source infrastructure layer for real-time remote control of robots and drones. The Paris-based startup raised $5 mil…

08:22

2026-06-20

thenextweb.com

robotics

The developer behind VLC’s 6 billion downloads now wants to connect hundreds of millions of robots

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player, raised $5 million for his startup Kyber, an open-source SDK that synchronizes video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs with ultra-low late…

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Jean-Baptiste Kempf 2 Kyber 2 Shadow 2 Lightspeed 1 Anthropic 1 Mistral AI 1 Citrix 1 Lightspeed Venture Partners 1

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robotics 2 ai infrastructure 2 ai startups 1 autonomous vehicles 1 developer tools 1