From black technology to super engineering

The first month of school always passes quickly, and it is late March in a blink of an eye.

The school couldn't wait to issue three certificates directly to Ye Ming, and then another letter of appointment hired him as a professor.

For Ye Ming...of course it is a good thing.

First of all, he can be recommended as an academician - the prerequisite for becoming an academician is a professor and an equivalent title. As for other achievements, nationality, etc...

Ye Ming doesn't even have a passport, just an ID card plus a household registration book, that's a bright red seedling.

Secondly, he can also participate in the Future Science Award known as the "Nobel Prize" in China. Although the money is only 1 million US dollars, it seems a bit drizzle compared to his current "net worth", but wealth and cash are two different things...

Jizhi Technology is now in the "rising period", and Ye Ming is embarrassed to put money in his pocket. Besides, it seems that he has no use for taking money. It's better to receive an award, which can make my mother happy, and continue to go to Versailles in WeChat.

Finally, everyone can call him Professor Ye.

Although Ye Ming was a little embarrassed, it sounded better than being called Mr. Ye.

However, as a professor, Ye Ming did not perform his duties as a professor.

After all, he has been visibly busy in the past two years.

For example, at the end of March, Jizhi Technology will hold another spring conference.

...

Qi and Mo sat on the sofa in Ye Ming's office, with smiles in their eyes: "What is the internal price of Aita?"

Beside her, sat a robot painted in blue and white.

The outer shell of the robot cannot be seen from the material, but it can be clearly seen that it is made of matte paint, which is quite textured at first glance.

Special materials are used for the joint joints, which allow it to move freely, protect the joints well, and facilitate disassembly at the same time.

Both of its hands use bionic structures, but compared to the slender body, the proportions of the two hands look slightly larger.

It's just a pair of working hands.

In addition, its head has an oval structure, and it does not design unnecessary facial features such as nose and mouth that may cause the "uncanny valley effect", nor does it adopt a large-screen design that uses its face as a display screen, A screen the size of a mobile phone is installed in the eye.

As for the most important binocular camera, it adopts an under-screen design.

And through ingenious design, its head can be rotated 180 degrees, so that it can easily realize the exchange of "face" and "back of the head", so that it can also conveniently use the projector installed at the back of the head.

Hmm...but at the position of the two ears, there are two openings designed for it, one for sound and one for heat dissipation.

Overall, its design is in line with people's imagination of domestic robots.

Of course, if you have to design it, it can actually be designed better, more perfect, more realistic, and even closer to the human touch...

But in order to consider some unnecessary "trouble", the robot design team abandoned these exciting ideas.

"Internal price?" Ye Ming scratched his head: "I don't know, you have to ask Sister Qu Jing."

"Sister Jing asked you."

"...Then I'll give you one?"

"..." Qi and Mo were speechless for a while: "Boss, I still have some savings, okay?"

Ye Ming just laughed.

Although Qi and Mo haven't graduated yet, they have already become the core members of Jizhi Technology's AI department. Let's put it this way, before He Mo came, she was the one who knew Aita best.

However, when Jizhi Technology had no money before, the salary was quite high. Needless to say, the income of Lacquer and Ink is calculated based on the annual salary.

"How much is the first batch produced?"

"There are about 3,000 units, according to market research, basically we can sell them...well...Of course, it still depends on the performance of your press conference." Qi and Mo said and blinked: "Come on, Professor Ye. "

Ye Ming coughed.

Qi and Mo laughed loudly: "It feels very smooth."

"No, please forgive me."

"Then invite me to dinner?"

"No problem—let Aita cook?"

"good!"

Paint and Ink turned to look at the side: "Aita."

"I am here."

Two voices sounded at the same time.

In addition to her, the prototype machine sitting across from her that had been charging also responded.

Ye Ming laughed loudly.

"It's over, the artificial mental retardation is over."

...

The last day of March.

Palo Alto, California.

Tesla Building, Robot Experiment Center.

At nine o'clock in the morning, all employees gathered in the conference room.

As the boss sat down with a serious face, the display screen on the conference room wall was turned on.

Immediately afterwards, the assistant clicked on YouTube's homepage, Hot List, and selected the first video.

"Jizhi Technology Spring Conference"

The video was uploaded in less than four hours, and has been played more than five million times, and the number of online viewers currently exceeds 100,000.

"I don't know if you have watched the live broadcast, but I still hope you can watch the replay."

Musk looked at the crowd, frowning deeply: "This is our opponent."

With his voice, the video was clicked.

Amid the applause, Ye Ming walked slowly to the front desk.

"Sorry for keeping everyone waiting."

Ye Ming's voice sounded: "Because we are a start-up company with little experience, the secrecy of some products is not done very well. So that, on the day we announced the press conference, someone had already guessed that we were going to release What product."

"It seems that this habit needs to be changed."

There were bursts of laughter from the audience.

Musk sighed slightly.

Of course I can guess.

He took the robot around with such fanfare, and even dared to let the robot physically drive...

If you can't guess that the robot butler is going to be released today, then you just hit the wall and die.

How important the confidentiality of unreleased products is to a technology company, just look at how Apple does it.

But Jizhi Technology is good, it seems that it doesn't know what secrecy is at all...

However, Musk does not believe that this is because Jizhi Technology does not know the importance of product secrets.

Here's the scariest part - they know it, but they don't care.

On the screen, Ye Ming's voice continued.

"We announced three news today."

"The first one is that we have jointly launched a prosthetic eye solution to help blind patients restore vision with the Provincial Jiaotong University Medical College Brain Science Center."

Following Ye Ming's voice, an "eyeball" appeared on the screen behind him.

"This is a feat we have accomplished with a digital integrated chip that will completely solve blindness from various causes, and at the same time allow patients to obtain the most immersive holographic simulation with prosthetic eyes!"

"It can be said that it directly brought the patient into the Metaverse in one step..."

Musk frowned: "Jump over."

The assistant glanced at Musk and dragged the progress bar.

On the screen, a slender robot with light blue and white paint slowly appeared amidst the applause like a tsunami.

In the conference room, everyone fell silent.

Even if it was the second or even the third time they saw this scene, they still couldn't restrain the shock in their hearts.

These seemingly simple steps are the first step for strong AI intelligent robots to formally enter human society.

It is also the first step in a new world.

A big step.