Giant of the times

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

Li Zetian nodded and said jokingly: "I have already taken action personally, how can the other party still be intimidated by my domineering side?"

Yu Jingqiu smiled and said: "This Joseph Engelberg is amazing. I just looked at 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 impressive. It was the first company in the world to develop industrial robots. In order to promote industrial robots, Unimation Company spent 65,000 US dollars on The robot is priced at $18,000!"

Li Zetian shook his head and smiled, "Unimation Company is really hardworking, but it also proves the company's vision and determination to promote industrial robots, which will make them make a lot of money in the future. Before the 1970s, 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 causing the company to gradually be caught up by other companies in the industrial robot explosion of the latter era. For example, RB Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed a licensing agreement with Unimation, becoming RB's pioneer in the field of industrial robots; Germany's KUKA developed and transformed the Unimation robot it used into its first industrial robot, named Famulus, which is the world's first industrial robot. The first electromechanically driven 6-axis robot..."

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

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

"Although the industrial robot market is highly competitive, with Chronos·Li's investment, Unimation will be able to obtain sufficient R\u0026D funds and still maintain its leading position in the industry! Engelberg, I agree to accept Chronos·Li's investment request." said a woman in her forties.

Engelberg nodded and glanced at the others.

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

"Then it was decided. I then informed Cruise and asked him to hold Westinghouse down so that we could get better terms from Chronos Li!" Engelberg said.

Everyone nodded.

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After more than two weeks of tug-of-war negotiations, Umbrella invested US$300 million in Unimation, holding a 60% stake.

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

Li Zetian can provide Unimation with financial resources, technology and sales channels. Many factories such as Ant Factory, Apple Factory, Intel Factory, Galaxy Network Factory, etc. all use industrial robots. As a result, the market share that originally belonged to other industrial robot companies will inevitably be taken away.

"Alas, the industrial robot industry will definitely be difficult in the future, and 80% of it will be monopolized by Unimation!"

"In the past few 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 coming, my legs went weak. Fortunately, I did not invest in building a factory, otherwise, in the future, You must die!"

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At this time, at Li Zetian's request, Unimation Company changed its name to Evolver Robot Company and established two departments: industrial robots and service robots.

Subsequently, job advertisements were placed in many media.

At the same time, people were sent to hold Evolution Robot Company job fairs at well-known universities in the United States.

After that, we plan to establish branches in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Hong Kong, RB, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and other regions. In addition to conducting business activities, we will also cooperate with local colleges and universities to recruit outstanding talents. .

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

For a time, many top robotics engineers resigned and joined Evolver Robotics Company.

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

"Damn, this is so crazy. Why are we recruiting so many robot engineers?"

"Chronos Li changed the name of Unimation Company to Evolution Robot Company, and I felt something was wrong. Now it seems that he is going to make robots like those in "Terminator"! Evolution, Evolution, will robots evolve in the future? "

"Oh, that's cool, that's cool. Is Evolver Robot Company really going to develop robots that can evolve in the future?"

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At this time, even Joseph Engelberg and others from Unimation 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, and I can't help him if he does this. Moreover, the employees in the company all support him because Chronos·Li provides them with the best R\u0026D conditions, and There are so many outstanding talents joining us, and together we can create the most advanced robots, even artificial intelligence robots. Think about it, this is very exciting!"

"But……"

"No need to worry. It is obvious that Chronos Li will inject capital into Evolution Robot Company next, further diluting our shares. However, as long as Evolution Robot Company develops well, even if our shares are diluted, its value will still be It’s gone up!” A shareholder laughed, “Don’t you know that Wall Street has taken a very close look at our company since Unimation changed its name to Evolution Robots? As far as I know, many evaluation agencies have classified Evolution Robots as The company's market value is set at US$1 billion. The original market value of Unimation was 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 make several times the profit! Do any of you want to sell stocks? I can buy it!"

The other shareholders were immediately speechless and looked at each other. No one offered to sell their shares.

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

No one was actually surprised.

As soon as I heard the name "Evolution Robotics Company", I knew that I was going 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 experts represented by John McCarthy, Seymour Papert, Minsky, and Allen Newell Intelligence scholars gathered together, and they proposed to establish 'artificial intelligence' as an independent discipline. The Dartmouth Conference formally established the term artificial intelligence (Artificial Intelligence), which is therefore considered to be a symbol of the birth of artificial intelligence. ! McCarthy’s α-β search method, Minsky’s Snare, and Simon and Newell’s ‘Logic Theorist’ (10sicTheorist) are the three highlights of the conference!”

"After the Dartmouth Conference, artificial intelligence developed rapidly, but soon encountered an artificial intelligence winter. However, by 1982, artificial neural networks mushroomed like mushrooms after a rain, bringing new challenges to the development of artificial intelligence. Hope. The main characteristics of artificial neural networks are distributed storage of information and parallelization of information processing, as well as self-organizing and self-learning capabilities. This gives people new ways and methods to use machines to process information, making artificial intelligence more popular in academia. There’s a craze for neural networks!”

Li Zetian said solemnly: "Although the development of artificial intelligence has twists and turns, its development potential is endless and has a huge impact on the development of the robot manufacturing industry! It is urgent to establish an artificial intelligence laboratory!!!"

Everyone nodded, Li Zetian had absolute authority here.

PS: I owe one update today, and I will make up for four updates tomorrow.