The robot that must be selected for display at CES2018 is descending the stairs.

【You must choose CEO Zhou Jian to open the survival rule of humanoid robots in the era of weak AI】 In early May, Shenzhen artificial intelligence and humanoid robot companies must declare to complete 820 million US dollars of C round of financing, with a valuation of 5 billion US dollars, which also refreshes The world record for single round of financing in the AI ​​field. In 2016, 540 excellent robots Alpha1s danced on the Spring Evening stage, which started the reputation of the Shenzhen robot company, which is located in the south. Capitals and orders have come one after another, but it has also brought a strange look. The word "Yue must choose" is far less famous than the "Spring-Summer Robot."

“Some people say that UY must be chosen as public relations. Well, some people say that Zhou Jian had made a toy. They think UY must be a gimmick,” said You Jian’s founder and CEO Zhou Jian during an exclusive interview with a Southern Metropolis reporter. The controversial contestant must be "famous" and has been accompanied so far. "But I'm very clear about the future of Ubiquitous. We are humanoid robots. In the future, every family can buy 200,000 personal robots and give them home." You do the daily chores, and when you come back to your house and say, 'The master has worked hard', find that your exhaustion will show you soothing music and become a member of your family."

To reduce the price of humanoid robots to less than 200,000

You Jian must choose the founder and CEO Zhou Jianai to punch, in his bones is an angry youth. He will say in his circle of friends that "most people can understand the idea is basically useless," and he often complains about how fickle the Internet's current innovation environment is. He believes that 80% of robot companies must die, even for some simple businesses. The model's innovative performance disdains.

"If there is no priority, Chinese robots are mostly doing 'eggs'. When asked about the current status of the industry, Zhou Jian believes that many industries experiencing subsidy wars are merely model innovations, and this is not cool at all. "Everyone didn't try to find real core technology for long-term industrial manufacturing."

What is the "egg"? As the name implies, it is an egg-shaped robot that simplifies expensive sports problems and can only be placed on the desktop, satisfying basic passive interaction through voice recognition and a display screen.

To understand the meaning of “egg”, we first need to understand the current status of humanoid robots with “a bright future but a tortuous road”. The world’s first humanoid robot capable of moving around, Honda asimo, which has already joined interactive AI functions such as voice and vision, costs more than US$2 million. Such an expensive robot cannot be mass-produced but can only be placed in the lab for academic research. . On the one hand, the "brain" of humanoid robots is still weak in active interaction, dialogue, and observation. On the other hand, the “four limbs” of humanoid robots are mainly because the servos (which can be understood as “joints”) are still expensive. A robotic optical servos accounts for 40%-50% of the cost, and motion control, etc. are also required. Various details, such as the simple algorithm of picking up a glass of water, are still difficult to accurately achieve.

In this period that Zhou Jian calls "the era of weak AI," some manufacturers choose to be smart speakers, and some manufacturers choose to do what Zhou Jian calls "an egg-shaped robot." Ubiquitous must be one of the few to start with the steering gear, try to do the robot movement ability first, and have the layout enterprise in machine vision, positioning navigation, robot operating system and so on. As a Transformers fan, Zhou Jian believes that the “cooler” thing is to reduce the price to 200,000 yuan that the people can afford through R&D and scale manufacturing.

At this year's CES, Ubisoft will demonstrate Walker, a bipedal robot that can autonomously go up and down the stairs. At present, the world's robots that can achieve this upright walking include only the aforementioned Asimo in Japan and At-las and Cassie in the United States. Although this kind of dazzling technology is far from being “flying into the homes of ordinary people,” it at least proves that Umbilicals are not just making toys.

Talk about ideals and eat first.

Zhou Jian said that the current mandatory selection has already set the cost of the steering gear to be about 40% when it started its business six years ago. To really achieve 200,000 humanoid robots, it will take 6-10 years, at least for such a long development cycle. Need to spend tens of billions of scientific research.

"It's not that we just want to make entertainment scenes. In the weak AI era, entertainment is the easiest thing to realize," Zhou Jian said frankly, Uber must also make some money-making activities to support himself. In addition to the Alpha series, Ubit has also selected Cruzr, a commercial service robot, and Jimu, an STEM intelligent programming education robot. The former does not have "double feet", and the latter does not even have a half-dollar relationship with AI.

“This is not the final form of humanoid robots. It is not that we have shot a bullet or blinded people.” Zhou Jian said that entertainment, education, services, and medical care are four future scenarios that must be selected by the U.S.. These are necessary accumulations. The important thing is, "They can bring in income and help us to support ourselves at this stage."

To talk about the ideal, we must also eat first. This is the style of the typical southern entrepreneurs. According to its introduction, this year's preferred sales will reach 2 billion, and next year it will achieve a breakthrough of 5 billion, which will basically achieve break-even. "It is unrealistic for such a long R&D cycle to rely on burning investment money."

This year, Jimu Wang also replaced Alpha on the 2018 Spring Festival Gala. Jimu is not the cheapest of the currently available programmable robots on the market. "But Jimu is the only robot with a servo steering gear. DC motors are used by other domestic counterparts and they can't be programmed at all." Zhou Jianru told Southern Reporter. Do not join voice interactive features, the current choice is more cost considerations. “The small servos of the Jimu robot are all tens of dollars, and each Jimu robot has 4-12 servos. We have higher costs than others.”

Compared to Jimu, Cruzr robots are more “human-like”. Earlier this year, 2,150 Cruzr robots were employed at the home of the surprise family and went to the new offline retail market to serve as shopping guides or promoters. In the long run, robots do not use wages, and labor costs increase gradually. The cost reduction caused by this scenario substitution is significant, but at this stage, Zhou Jian admits that it is not time to exceed manpower. "At present, robots are more of a manpower manipulator, plus the cost of robotic maintenance and the depreciation rate are not easy to say, so we are very grateful for the courage of the home."

The real scene will be very different from the laboratory and various problems will be encountered in the current trial stage. For example, there are many malls, wifi can not be used, Cruzr added a 4G chip later; for example, there is a child squat arm, and then further reinforcement at the joints, not to mention the far-field noise, site lighting and other intelligent identification of interference factors, "Not including outsourcing and after-sales, our hardware, software and hardware team has equipped this case with a team of more than 30 people," Zhou Jian said. This is a valuable accumulation.

Tencent shares

Emphasis is on actively interacting with data

The 820 million U.S. dollar financing led by Tencent has created the largest single line of financing for domestic artificial intelligence. The initial contact between Tencent and Ubiquitous is based on product cooperation. Tencent needs some technical solutions to be launched. This includes preferred robots, such as AlphaEbot based on Dangdang AI Assistant and QrobotAlpha, a court service robot based on the Cloud Micro Platform. . The latter was released in June last year and Tencent was finalized after one month. “It was only after this year that it was decided that we should choose other strategic investment partners. We can now support ourselves. The key is to look at the resources of our partners,” said Zhou Jian.

In the long list of investors, including Industrial and Commercial Bank of China, Haier, Minsheng Securities, Telstra, and Home Furnishings, they are not only pure investment funds, but are carriers of scenarios under the wireline. "Now that the artificial intelligence technology is advancing, it is more important to realize the landing scene and accumulate this kind of real data."

"You have to focus on Tencent's AI development capabilities, as well as some game IP, and Tencent values ​​our robot's active interactive capabilities," said Zhou Jian. Before he invested, he met with Tencent Chairman Ma Huateng. The latter mainly mentioned The robot's "subjective initiative", "the robot can actively say hello, take the initiative to tap the needs of users, the significance of this data is the current mobile phone, speaker completely unparalleled."

Data is currently the most important “nutrient” of artificial intelligence. It needs to continuously add user language materials and constantly debug to approach people’s thinking. The smart speaker that started the fire last year has also become an important data entry, but Zhou Jian thinks the smart speaker is just a transitional product. Alpha series robots can also listen to songs and interact with voices. However, because of their combination of four limbs, Alpha has hundreds of thousands of speakers. The market size is not in the order of magnitude. However, in Zhou Jian’s view, the active interaction data generated by this robot will be more valuable to users’ tagging.

"In the future, the robot will walk in front of you at least once and say, 'The master has worked hard'; at least it will take the initiative to follow you and judge your emotions from your expression, such as automatically playing soothing music when you are tired, instead of putting it on On the table, you need speakers to wake up." Zhou Jian thinks.

The battle for artificial intelligence in the future is a battle for data. Getting Tencent's financing is a huge source of resources and money for entrepreneurs, and it also raises questions about the “team”.

In this regard, Zhou Jian made it clear that the U.S. will not stand in line. "Ali has similar products to talk about. The current robots are not just Tencent's voice platform. We are also working on machine vision and voice." In Zhou Jian's view, the future will be selected in the robot hardware. , Motion control will occupy the technical commanding heights, "This is not what the Internet giant such as BAT can do, or will do."

Daqi

South are: Are you anxious?

Zhou Jian: Anxiety is the normal state of entrepreneurship. Ma Yun will also be anxious. Otherwise, it will not be today. The main anxiety may be some difficult setbacks in the product development process. The key is their own adjustment ability.

Nandu: What book have you been reading recently?

Zhou Jian: Recently, I mainly read a "Silk Road" written by a French writer. My person likes to read history. He will let you see global development in a higher format. It will make you feel that some things in history will happen.

Nandu: Who do you think is most influential to you?

Zhou Jian: This is not. I think every successful road is very different. We all understand the truth, but the road is on our own. This is why I don’t want to go to a meeting and I’m not willing to see what philosophy soup is. I think it’s a waste of time.

South are: If you did not do a good job, what do you think you are doing now?

Zhou Jian: I really thought about it. I think I would go to make a movie. I told you that no Ubiquitous Chinese robots are making eggs. Now many high-tech companies are doing bicycles and toilets. This is not cool, there is no core innovation, no deep thinking. Similarly, current Chinese films are "eggs," and this needs change.

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