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Photon Protocol

Photon Protocol is a semantic optical communication stack for embodied AI agents. Instead of communicating over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, autonomous AI agents use visible light to exchange compressed semantic information, enabling local LLMs to collaborate through a custom physical communication protocol with human-in-the-loop controls.

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What they built: Photon Protocol is a semantic optical communication stack for embodied AI agents. Instead of communicating over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth, autonomous AI agents use visible light to exchange compressed semantic information, enabling local LLMs to collaborate through a custom physical communication protocol with human-in-the-loop controls.

What it solves: Photon Protocol enables AI agents to collaborate in environments where conventional networking is unavailable, undesirable, or restricted, such as air-gapped facilities, industrial automation, robotics, disaster response, and defense. It demonstrates a new paradigm for embodied AI, where intelligent machines communicate meaningful information over physical optical channels rather than traditional network infrastructure.

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