I Have a Little Black Hole

As reporters and lucky employees at the press conference continued to publish various working videos of home robots on the Internet, the popularity of this topic not only did not decrease due to the Chinese New Year, but instead became more and more intense.

Many netizens only saw some scenes of robots working at the press conference. Later, they saw the application of robots in different scenarios in various advertisements, and also saw the promotional videos produced by Universe Technology on the official website. publicity.

It often happens that advertisements and actual effects are completely different. Even those buyers who have placed orders are not without doubts. Now that they have seen so many working videos of robots in real scenes, these early grabs The people who received the order started to squirm on the Internet, promoting their own wise and martial arts everywhere, and the popularity of the topic was just like this.

Of course, how can those companies that are also developing robots with such a big momentum not pay attention? The situation in China is better. After all, the technical level is there. Don't rush to spend a lot of money to buy one from these lucky people who have robots in advance and come back to study it. Anyway, with so many shipments in a few days, just buy a few if you want.

But those foreign companies don’t think so. Many big companies’ robotics technology is also very advanced, especially large high-tech companies like Google, Amazon, Apple, Samsung, etc. have invested a lot of money in the field of robotics and energy.

There are many robot research projects like Google, the most famous one is the Atlas robot.

Atlas is a humanoid robot with a height of nearly 1.5 meters and a weight of nearly 75 kilograms. It has a head, torso and limbs like a human being, and its eyes are two stereo sensors. Developed by Boston Dynamics, a subsidiary of Google. The product iteration of the product has probably gone through three major version updates.

In May 2018, Boston Dynamics showed off an upgraded version of the humanoid robot that can already jump on one leg.

There are also companies like Amazon. The latest news says that Amazon is planning a home robot Vesta, which is expected to be launched in the next few years.

The news pointed out that the Vesta project has actually been planned as early as a few years ago, but it only began to recruit talents in 18 years. It is reported that dozens of job postings for software engineers, robotics engineers and sensor principle engineers have been posted on the Lab 126 website.

Project Vesta is led by Gregg Zehr, head of Amazon’s Lab 126 hardware development division, which includes the Echo smart speaker, Fire TV set-top box, Fire tablet and Fire Phone.

As for configuration,

Presumably the Vesta robot will be equipped with high-definition cameras, artificial intelligence technology, built-in Amazon Alexa, and can work with Amazon Echo.

In fact, Amazon has been deeply involved in the field of robotics for many years. Among them, in March 2012, Amazon announced the acquisition of Kiva System, a warehouse robot system, for US$775 million in cash, and then added tens of thousands of robots to join the logistics work, making Amazon's logistics efficiency 2-4 times higher and the accuracy rate reaching 99.99%. , and started a multi-year robotics monopoly.

Such companies are also ambitiously trying to enter the humanoid home robot market, and the time for a technological breakthrough is not far off.

There are also countries with advanced robot technology such as Baga Country, Bangzi Country, and Germany Country, which are also conducting research and development of various humanoid robots, and laboratories in some countries are even secretly developing military humanoid robots.

Although it is still in laboratory research and development, it is already at the world's leading level in terms of technology. Therefore, for a new company that suddenly emerged and can put humanoid household robots into the market on a large scale, these companies are not in a hurry. Weird!

The humanoid robots they are developing are still a long way from being able to be put into the market on a large scale, but technology, as long as there are objects to imitate, will progress very quickly.

So time is very important to these companies, because other competitors will not delay time, so foreign reporters who bought home robots quickly sold their robots to these companies, except for 30,000-50,000 In addition to the attractive price of US dollars, these companies also promised these reporters the opportunity to give them exclusive interviews or exclusive news, so no reporter can refuse such conditions.

And after these big companies bought these robots, they pulled them into the laboratory for the first time, and various test projects were launched simultaneously. Everyone wanted to know the various data of these robots in the shortest time, which is the detailed data. , not the simple data released by Universe Technology.

Unbelievable! How did they design such a perfect robot! It can make a robot achieve so many functions! It can perform all kinds of actions that we can't even imagine! A large-scale experiment of Boston Dynamics, a subsidiary of Google In the room, an expert stared at several robots that were doing various housework according to their instructions and exclaimed.

A truly amazing product! It is estimated that it will take at least 5 years for our Atlas robot to achieve this effect!

Everyone must pay more attention to observation. Although our own pride prevents us from imitating a product produced by Huaxia Company, it will bring us inspiration that we did not have before, which can save us a lot of research work in the future. detour!

The importance of time believe me not to mention that everyone knows it! If we can't come up with our own products in the shortest time, when this robot completely occupies the market, our living space will be squeezed out!

What's more, other companies will do their best in this competition! The market is so big. If we can't give the company a satisfactory answer, it will be very difficult for our laboratory to obtain funding from the company, and everyone may face unemployment, so please work hard!

The company will give you the greatest support, we need equipment and equipment, and we need funds and funds! The head office will also provide help, and I hope everyone will work hard!

The director of the laboratory, Rodison, seriously conveyed the company's attitude to the experts in the laboratory. To be honest, as the director of the laboratory, he is now under a lot of pressure. Compared with the home robots of Universe Technology Company, They have fallen behind a lot, and the attention of the company and the head office has doubled the pressure on him, not to mention that there are so many competitors.