--- title: The developer behind VLC’s 6 billion downloads now wants... description: Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player, has raised $5 million led by Lightspeed Venture Partners for his startup Kyber. Kyber is an... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-developer-behind-vlc-s-6-billion-downloads-now-wants-to-connect-hundreds-of-millions-of-robots-vn7dce3gq twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The developer behind VLC’s 6 billion downloads now wants to connect hundreds of millions of robots | daily.dev og:description: Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player, has raised $5 million led by Lightspeed Venture Partners for his startup Kyber. Kyber is an... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-developer-behind-vlc-s-6-billion-downloads-now-wants-to-connect-hundreds-of-millions-of-robots-vn7dce3gq og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/VN7dCe3Gq.png og:image:alt: The developer behind VLC’s 6 billion downloads now wants to connect hundreds of millions of robots og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The developer behind VLC’s 6 billion downloads now wants to connect hundreds of millions of robots **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 3 min read · 1 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Jean-Baptiste Kempf, lead developer of VLC Media Player, has raised $5 million led by Lightspeed Venture Partners for his startup Kyber. Kyber is an open-source SDK that synchronises video, audio, sensor data, and control inputs with ultra-low latency (as low as 8ms glass-to-glass), built on top of FFmpeg and VLC. The platform targets remote machine control use cases including robotics, drones, remote vehicles, cloud rendering, and remote IT access. Already in commercial deployment across defence, telco, robotics, and AI sectors, Kyber uses a dual-licence model with a free core and enterprise productisation. Kempf positions the company as infrastructure for the physical AI era, where millions of robots and drones will need a reliable control and observability layer. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [He made your free video player run smoothly. 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