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Chapter 1050 Golden Signboard
It seems that no one can avoid the fact that dragon slaying warriors will eventually become evil dragons. Back then, IBM, Intel, Cisco, Microsoft, Yahoo, Oracle, including the current Alcatel mobile phone, all had a silly and sweet image when they first debuted. It's the one being bullied.

But now, after completing the most primitive accumulation, each one of them began to change from a dragon slayer warrior to a dragon, and became the person they least wanted to be!

Because being a villain, directly forcibly crushing opponents, buying and selling by force is much more refreshing than spending all your money and not getting your hands on it.

Pushing back 20 years, Boston Dynamics may still have the strength to reject giant companies, but now, in front of giant companies, Boston Dynamics does not have much power to fight back.

Zhou Bailin looked at the helpless expression on Mark Leiporter's face, and inexplicably remembered the saying that a three-year-old child walks in the downtown area with gold. Boston Dynamics has the technology, but it does not have the strength to hold on to this technology. At that time, it was doomed to the tragedy of Boston Dynamics. Even without the Alcatel mobile phone, it would also be unable to resist other giant companies.

Even Mark Rayporter, a technical expert, would face a sense of powerlessness, which gave Zhou Bailin a new understanding of America and its social status.

Marcus didn't really want to toss Boston Dynamics to death, it didn't match his purpose of coming today, and he didn't want to completely turn against Mark Reporter, and really forced this little old man who is known as the most authoritative in the robotics academic industry to leave Yes, it will be a while, it's really hard to find a replacement.

Xiao Xiao gave Mark Reporter a "warning", and then Marcus changed the subject, "Alcatel Mobile Phone, PA Semiconductor and Blackwater Security are willing to form a joint acquisition team to invest in Boston Dynamics!

Mr. Bruno Song promised that after the acquisition is completed, Boston Dynamics will still be in charge of you, Mark Reporter. In the future, Alcatel Mobile will provide Boston Dynamics with sufficient research and development funding. Just like Bell Labs, Boston Dynamics can also follow With the cooperation of Bell Labs, the dilemma encountered by Boston Dynamics today will not happen again! "

Although he was "threatened" for a while, Mark Reporter couldn't help being a little moved when he heard that Boston Dynamics could cooperate with the famous Bell Labs and get enough funding.

After Bell Labs changed hands and separated from the Telephone and Telegraph Group, last year, under the same management of Marcus, when the Internet crashed and Lucent was also deeply involved in financial fraud, Bell Labs, a subsidiary of American Telecom, was in With the help of American Telecom, Alcatel Mobile and the North American Global Investment Foundation, the other half of Bell Labs, which was taken away by Lucent, was acquired at a price of US$1995 million, which made Bell Labs, which was divided into two halves since [-] Room, reunited into one!

After five or six consecutive years of America Telecom's large investment every year, Bell Labs has stopped the decline. Bell Labs headquarters spent a lot of money to purchase new equipment, and invited many big names to return, which made Bell Labs faintly ZTE. The momentum, coupled with the acquisition of Bell Labs under Lucent, compared with the Bell Labs at its peak, the current Bell Labs dare not say that it has fully recovered, but the level of the original five or six points is still there.

The research and development personnel of the University of America, as well as many overseas technical personnel, began to slowly regard Bell Labs as Bai Yueguang.

It is hard to say how many benefits it has to support Bell Labs every year, but Alcatel Mobile Phone, PA Semiconductor, Diamond Electronics, Panda TV, ARM, as well as ICQ, PayPal and many other companies, can be in just a few years. , The technology is advancing by leaps and bounds, and it is inseparable from the support of Bell Labs to compete with established technology companies.

For example, America Telecom can become the leader of 2G network and the leader of 3G network. If there is no support from Bell Labs, America Telecom, which was empty before, can do this.

In other words, with the golden signboard of Bell Labs, companies such as American Telecom can continuously recruit top technical personnel, and raising Bell Labs is equivalent to raising a gold-plated horse farm, which can continue to recruit from all over the world. The world attracts Maxima...

Mark Rayport was a little moved. Bell Labs has a lot of great talents, especially if they want to develop the kind of robot that Mark Rayport expects, they need artificial intelligence, brain nerves and other physical, electronic, biological, etc. The support of an industry leader, Bell Labs is the most indispensable is this kind of expert, with the support of Bell Labs, enough for him to get twice the result with half the effort.

But Mark Reporter is still a little worried. He doesn't want his own research and development to be restricted. According to the requirements of Alcatel Mobile Phone and Blackwater Security, what kind of functional and attacking robots will be developed, which will make him a maverick all his life. It's like a puppet, he doesn't want the rest of his life to be like a mindless robot!
Seeing the hesitation on Mark Leiporter's face, Marcus felt helpless for a while. Facing this kind of technology giants, sometimes, is more troublesome than facing the old foxes on Wall Street. A guy who only cares about profit, money, etc., but a big man like Mark Rayport pays a lot more attention to such illusory things as ideals, beliefs, and life creeds.

After coughing, Marcus made another condition, "When the acquisition is completed, Mark, you can still develop the kind of robot you want. Companies such as Alcatel mobile phones will not intervene, but Boston Dynamics also needs to establish a commercial robot. department to develop commercial robots that can be sold!"

Seeing that Mark Leiport frowned again, Marcus stretched out his hand and said, "Mark, if you want the outside world to accept the kind of intelligent robot you developed, it will not happen overnight, and it is not shameful to develop commercial robots!
Boston Dynamics can develop a voice guide robot dog. If it can meet the functions of a guide dog, it can help more people with visual impairments. It can also be used as a medical robot for rehabilitation or nursing homes.

It is also possible to develop life robots for drilling surveys and disaster rescue, which can reach places that ordinary people cannot reach and save more lives, or develop auxiliary robots for heavy physical strength, which can reduce the burden of those heavy physical practitioners , from the risk of pain!

No company's robots can do this now, but Boston Dynamics' robots have hope! "

These words were given to Marcus by Song Yang before Marcus came. Talking about beautiful knives with Mark Reporter may not be able to convince this obviously stubborn little old man, but when it comes to these, it is obvious that Mark Rayport was a little shaken on his face.

Still showing arrogance, it seemed that he dismissed what Marcus said, but Mark Rayport did not refute.

"Let him take charge of the commercial robot department, isn't he the one Bruno Song sent to supervise me!"

"[-] million U.S. dollars, Boston Dynamics' purchase price cannot be lower than [-] million U.S. dollars. I want to let the Federal Defense Research Agency know what they missed!"

Mark Rayport pointed at Zhou Bailin, Zhou Bailin was dazed and wanted to speak, but Mark Rayport didn't give him a chance to speak, and directly issued an "ultimatum" to Marcus.

Marcus pondered for a while, the purchase price of [-] million US dollars, if Boston Dynamics can develop a commercial robot, then the purchase price, to be honest, is not outrageous.

Not to mention anything else, let’s just say that there will be various auxiliary robot markets for industrial robots in the future, such as robotic arms in factories, robots in express sorting centers, sweeping robots, exploration robots, electronic pet robot dogs, and so on. The annual demand adds up to an astronomical figure.

The key point is that this is not a one-shot deal, just like an electric car. When you buy an electric car, whether you need to charge it or not, the business of charging piles will come soon. After a few years of use, whether the battery should be replaced, automatic replacement and recycling The battery repair shop is back in business soon, the wool comes from the sheep, don't think that changing the vest can hide the wool.

The same is true for the robotics industry. Even machines may break. After selling robots, after-sales service and replacement parts will become a huge industry in the future. Be more ruthless. What's the matter, changing parts requires one-tenth of the robot's selling price. Boss Jia makes even more money with this trick. Even if the TV and mobile phone businesses are discontinued, he can earn a few small goals every year just relying on after-sales and maintenance. !

"The joint acquisition team can provide Boston Dynamics with a purchase price of US$[-] million, but within two years, Mark, you need to let Boston Dynamics launch a robot that can attract the attention of the world, a dancing robot or a world Go champion. robot!"

(End of this chapter)