giants of the era

Chapter 238 Evolutionary Robot Company!

After returning home, Yu Jingqiu poured Li Zetian a glass of water and said, "How did the discussion go? Did Joseph Engelberg agree?"

Li Zetian nodded, and jokingly said, "I've already done it myself, so the other party won't be overwhelmed by my domineering side?"

Yu Jingqiu said with a smile: "This Joseph Engelberg is amazing. I just read the information. The most prestigious robot award in the world is the Engelberg Robot Award named after him!"

"That's right!" Li Zetian took a sip of water and continued, "The Unimation company he founded is also very remarkable. It is the first company in the world to develop industrial robots. In order to promote industrial robots, Unimation will spend 65000 US dollars The robot is priced at $18000!"

Li Zetian shook his head and smiled, "Unimation is really hardworking, but it also proves the company's vision. The determination to promote industrial robots will make them a lot of money in the future. Before the 70s, Unimation was basically the world. The company sells robots to various companies, including Europe and RB, which greatly improves production efficiency.

However, this is also making the company gradually catch up with other companies when the industrial robots of the next era blow out.For example, RB Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed a license agreement with Unimation, becoming a pioneer of RB in the field of industrial robots; German KUKA (KUKA) transformed the Unimation robot it used into its first industrial robot, named Famulus, which is the world's first industrial robot. The first 6-axis robot with electromechanical drive..."

"Unimation is facing more and more competitors, and its strength is getting stronger! I think this should be one of the reasons why Joseph Engelberg intends to sell Unimation, and there are fewer competitors for service robots. "

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It is said that after Joseph Engelberg returned to the hotel, he told the negotiating team he brought about Li Zetian's request.

"Although the industrial robot market is highly competitive, with the investment from Chronos Li, Unimation can get sufficient R&D funds and still maintain its leading position in the industry! Engelberg, I agree to accept the investment from Chronos Li." Said a woman in her 40s.

Engelberg nodded, then glanced at the others.

"We have no objection!" The other two negotiators shook their heads.

"Then it's decided, I will notify Cruise later and tell him to hold Westinghouse so that we can get better conditions from Chronos Li!" Engelberg said.

The crowd nodded.

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After more than two weeks of see-saw negotiations, Umbrella invested $3 million in Unimation, holding 60% of the shares.

After the news that Unimation was acquired by Li Zetian came out, the industry was shocked, as if a tiger rushed into the flock of sheep.

Li Zetian can provide Unimation with financial resources, technology and sales channels, such as Ant Factory, Apple Factory, Intel Factory, Galaxy Network Factory and many other factories that use industrial robots.In this way, the market share that originally belonged to other industrial robot companies is bound to be taken away.

"Hey, the industrial robot industry will definitely be difficult in the future, [-]% will be monopolized by Unimation!"

"In recent years, the development of industrial robots has been booming. I originally planned to get involved in this industry, but when I heard that Chronos Li was also coming, my legs were weak instantly. Fortunately, I didn't invest in building a factory, otherwise, in the future You must die!"

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At this time, at the request of Li Zetian, Unimation changed its name to Evolution Robot Company, and established two departments of industrial robots and service robots.

Subsequently, job advertisements were posted in many media.

At the same time, send people to hold a job fair for Evolution Robot Company at a well-known university in the United States.

Afterwards, it is planned to establish branches in the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, RB, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and other regions. In addition to conducting business activities, it will also cooperate with local institutions to recruit outstanding talents to join .

Of course, Li Zetian also asked headhunters to poach other robot companies.

For a time, many top robot engineers resigned one after another and joined Evolution Robot Company.

The whole world can't help being shocked by the series of actions of the Evolution Robot Company!

"Damn it, this shit is too crazy, why are you recruiting so many robot engineers?"

"Chronos Li changed the Unimation company's name to the Evolution Robot Company, and I felt something was wrong. Now it seems that he is going to make a robot like the one in "Terminator"! Evolution, evolution, do robots need to evolve in the future? "

"Oh, it's so cool, it's so cool, is Evolution Robotics really going to develop a robot that can evolve in the future?"

"..."

At this time, even Joseph Engelberg and others from the former Unimation company were shocked. They did not expect that Li Zetian was so determined to develop robots.

"Engelberg, if this continues, the company's funds will soon be spent!" A shareholder frowned and said to Engelberg.

Engelberg expressed helplessness: "The company now belongs to Chronos Li. If he wants to do this, I can't help it. Moreover, the employees in the company support him because Chronos Li provides them with the best research and development conditions, and There are so many outstanding talents joining, and everyone can create the most advanced robots, even artificial intelligence robots, it is very exciting to think about it!"

"But……"

"No need, it's obvious that Chronos Li will inject capital into the Evolutionary Robotics Company to further dilute our shares. However, as long as the Evolutionary Robotics Company develops well, even if our shares are diluted, its value will remain the same. It has risen!" A shareholder laughed, "Don't you know that since Unimation changed its name to Evolution Robot Company, Wall Street has taken our company very seriously? As far as I know, many evaluation agencies have regarded Evolution Robot as The market value of the company is set at 10 billion US dollars, and the original market value of Unimation is only a few hundred million US dollars! If you are not satisfied with Chronos Li's approach now, even if you sell stocks, you will earn several times! Does anyone want to sell stocks? I can buy it!"

The other shareholders were suddenly speechless and looked at each other in blank dismay. No one proposed to sell the stock.

Within a few days, Li Zetian came to Unimation and announced the establishment of an artificial intelligence laboratory.

People were not actually surprised.

As soon as you hear the name "Evolution Robot Company", you know that you want to develop artificial intelligence.

Li Zetian said: "In the summer of 1956, at a conference held at Dartmouth University in the United States, a group of artificial intelligence represented by John McCarthy, Seymour Papert, Minsky, and Alan Newell Intelligence scholars gathered together and they proposed to establish 'artificial intelligence' as an independent discipline. The Dartmouth meeting formally established the term artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence), which is therefore considered to be a sign of the birth of artificial intelligence !McCarthy's Alpha-Beta Search, Minsky's Snare, and Simon and Newell's 'Logic Theorist' (10sicTheorist) were three highlights of the conference!"

"Since the Dartmouth conference, artificial intelligence developed rapidly for a time, but soon encountered the artificial intelligence winter. However, in 1982, artificial neural networks developed rapidly like mushrooms after rain, bringing new developments to the development of artificial intelligence. Hope. The main features of the artificial neural network are the distributed storage of information and the parallelization of information processing, as well as the ability of self-organization and self-learning, which enables people to use machines to process information with new ways and methods, and makes artificial intelligence popular in academia Started the craze for neural networks!"

Li Zetian said in a deep voice: "Despite the twists and turns in the development of artificial intelligence, the development potential is endless, and it has a huge impact on the development of the robot manufacturing industry! The establishment of an artificial intelligence laboratory is urgent!!!"

Everyone nodded, Li Zetian has absolute authority here.

PS: One update is owed today, and four updates will be made up tomorrow.

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