VLC's Kempf Launches Kyber, Raising $5M for Real-Time Robot Control

Jean-Baptiste Kempf, the lead developer behind VLC Media Player and head of VideoLAN, has founded Kyber, a Paris-based startup building infrastructure to remotely control robots, drones and other devices at ultra-low latency, raising $5 million in a Seed round. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with OVNI Capital and Kima Ventures participating. According to coverage of the funding and background, the company has developed a real-time communications platform that synchronizes video, audio, sensor data and control inputs on a single clock, holding end-to-end latency at around 8ms.