m5ai

Give your AI agent five senses.

m5ai connects AI agents to the phones and smart devices people already own, so an agent can see, hear and sense the world through them, with the owner deciding what it may use.

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Five senses (sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste) overlapping around an AI agent at the centre agent Sight Hearing Touch Smell Taste

Senses your agent can borrow

Most of these sensors are already in the room. m5ai turns them into senses an agent can ask for, one at a time.

  • Sight

    Phone cameras, home cameras

    Read a label, check whether the stove is still on, describe what is on the table.

  • Hearing

    Phone microphones, smart speakers

    Notice the doorbell or a crying baby, follow a conversation, take a voice request.

  • Touch

    Motion sensors, wearables, haptics

    Feel a fall or a sudden stop, and answer back with a tap on the wrist.

  • Smell

    Air quality and gas sensors, purifiers

    Notice smoke, a gas leak or stale air, and open a window through a connected device.

How it works

No new hardware. The agent and the device never need to know each other's internals.

  1. Connect your devices

    Pair the phone and smart devices you already have. Each one shows up as a set of senses it can offer.

  2. Your agent asks for a sense

    An agent requests sight, hearing or another sense through one API, without writing code for each device.

  3. You approve it

    You choose which agent may use which sense, and for how long. You can take it back at any time.

Senses are lent, not taken

  • An agent gets a sense only after the device owner approves it, one sense and one agent at a time.
  • Raw camera and microphone data is processed on the device wherever possible. The agent receives what it asked for, not the whole stream.
  • Every time an agent uses a sense, it is recorded, so you can see who used what and when.

Works with what is already in the room

We are starting with the devices people carry and live with every day.

Building an agent that needs to sense the world?

Tell us what your agent should be able to see, hear or feel. We are working with a small group of early teams.

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