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On November 20, 2018, the shopping area of ​​Xinghai Group's official website announced the price and planned pre-sale quantity of intelligent robots.

Home Assistant 1.0, Dabai Basic Edition is priced at 168,000 yuan, and the pre-sale quantity is 50,000;

The Dabai Elite Edition is priced at 880,000 yuan, and the pre-sale quantity is 10,000;

The Dabai flagship version is priced at 1.68 million yuan, and the number of pre-sales is 2,000;

The robot dog basic version is priced at 68,000 yuan, and the elite version is 380,000 yuan, unlimited;

The basic version of the sweeping robot is priced at 2,999 yuan, and the pre-sale quantity is 100,000;

The flagship version of the sweeping robot is priced at 5,999 yuan, and the number of pre-sales is 50,000;

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Xinghai Group announced the prices and pre-sale quantities of 26 products in total. To purchase, you need to place an order in full, and then wait 3-12 months to get the goods, because the production line is in progress.

This kind of sales method where the full payment has to wait for the goods, if you switch to another company, you will definitely be complained about.

However, people across the country recognize the products of Xinghai Group, saying that the price of sweeping robots is only higher than that of similar products, but the quality is better and the functions are more powerful.

Like the flagship version of the sweeping robot, when it encounters a dirty floor, it will automatically identify it, then stay longer, and use high-temperature water to clean it. This alone can beat all the sweeping robots on the market.

Some companies' robot dogs cost only 10,000 to 20,000 yuan, but their functions are not very good, and it is useless to buy them.

The Xinghai Group's robot dog is much more powerful and has a higher IQ.

The above products of Xinghai Group will be given priority to the smart city owners, and each owner can purchase directly from the home shopping system, but some products are limited to purchase and cannot be purchased more.

Xinghai Group did not explain the reason, but some netizens believe that smart city owners are actually equivalent to the membership status of intelligent robots, and it is reasonable to enjoy priority rights. This thing is not fair and just, and buying some limited edition cars is not the same. Priority membership.

In addition, the average family will only consider robots below 10,000 yuan.

In fact, most families are reluctant to spend money to buy a robot, even if it only sells for a few thousand dollars.

Therefore, these robot products of Xinghai Group can't help the poor.

The Xinghai Group Intelligence Expo this time is the exhibition with the largest number of exhibitors in the world, reaching 3 million person-times, and the audience crowded the exhibition.

Therefore, the above-mentioned robots got enough limelight at the exhibition and got enough publicity.

At the same time, the official website of Xinghai Group announced the pictures, videos and specific performance parameters of the pre-sale robots to make buyers more clear.

Time flew by, and it was 9:55 am on November 20th, the official pre-sale time.

Many netizens stood in front of their computers and logged on to the Xinghai Group shopping website, or opened the Xinghai Group shopping app on their mobile phones, ready to snap up smart robots.

Smart city residents can place an order on the home shopping system five minutes in advance, but if it takes more than five minutes, they will rush to buy together with netizens across the country.

Even though the Dabai flagship version sells for as high as 1.68 million yuan per unit, it quickly robbed all the owners of the smart city.

In their view, Xiao Wang even bid 5 million yuan for only 1.68 million yuan, which may be a bit inflated.

However, if they don't use it for themselves after grabbing it, if they resell it, maybe they can sell it for more than 2 million yuan, making hundreds of thousands of dollars, and at worst, sell it at the original price, so they won't lose money anyway.

Unfortunately, each owner can only buy one.

Moreover, if you buy the flagship version, you can no longer snap up the elite version and the basic version.

Owners who can't grab the flagship version can only snap up the elite version or the basic version.

For other robots, earning a few hundred dollars is meaningless to them.

Many owners hesitated for a few minutes, thinking that even if it was a best-selling product, it would not be sold out immediately. They were considering which version was better to buy, and some owners even wanted to wait and see before purchasing.

Soon, it was ten o'clock in the morning.

It took less than a minute for the pre-sale to start, and all the limited-edition robots for this pre-sale were sold out, causing netizens who couldn't get it to scold "TMD is so rich".

The owners of those smart cities, when they opened the shopping system and saw the "sold out" reminder, they were instantly stunned!

How can it be!

Really sold out?

Or there is a problem with the system and no sales are made?

They consulted Xiaobai, and Xiaobai's answer was: "I'm sorry, master, all the limited edition intelligent robots have been sold out in the 55th second of the pre-sale. , has been snapped up by smart city owners.”

"Damn! It sold so fast!

Why!

Regret to death. "

These hesitant owners feel that they have missed an opportunity, especially some owners who intend to resell, feel that they have missed an opportunity to make money.

If you can earn three to four hundred thousand at once, that's not a small amount of money.

Open the owner group, everyone is discussing the matter of snapping up.

"Oh my god, I didn't get it. I'm still hesitating which one is better."

"Mr. Huang, I snatched it up. Don't worry about it. Xinghai Group's products have always been very popular, not to mention limited sales."

"I thought at the time that the limited sales might be because the production capacity could not keep up. It would be better to wait a little longer, so I hesitated for a while. Who knew there were so many people rushing for it."

"There are too many people who are not short of money, so I grabbed a Dabai basic version to help children with their homework."

"I just bought a house and didn't have that much budget, so I grabbed a simple version of a learning assistance robot, which cost 10,000 to 20,000 yuan."

In their community, the lowest house price is tens of millions. Even if it is not the full amount, the down payment will have to be several million yuan.

Some families sell their previous houses to build a smart city. There are many families with an annual income of more than one million, but not every family is like this.

Therefore, for the price of more than 100,000 yuan for the basic version of Dabai, they are really reluctant to part with that money.

Some owners want to take a gamble and sell it at a high price after buying it.

No, someone in the owner group shouted: "Up to 50,000 yuan will receive the Dabai flagship version, and up to 20,000 yuan will receive the elite version."

"Let's talk privately if you plan to sell, and I plan to accept one or two." The owner is more shrewd, and the public bidding price is easy to offend the new bidder, and it is not easy to grab the goods.

However, the owners who grabbed it were not in a hurry to transfer the order, and planned to wait and see.

When the owners heard that neighbors charged a premium, the owners who didn’t grab it regretted it. It’s crazy. They made tens of thousands of dollars when they resold it, and they missed it.

Although many homeowners have not moved into new houses, they can log in to the smart city home shopping system, which can also be operated on mobile phones.

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What Xinghai Group couldn't imagine is that there is no limited number of robot dogs, and the sales are also very hot.

Robot dogs are aimed at users in special departments. Some rich people have already thought of the use of mechanical dogs, such as buying a few to go back for a walk, and using robot dogs as a means of transportation when traveling or shopping.

Of course, the basic version of the robot dog has the function of following people, it may carry 20 kilograms, and the maximum battery life is one or two hours.

The elite version is more powerful and bigger. Its ability to crawl and circumnavigate obstacles is even stronger. The fastest walking speed can reach 8 seconds per second. It can only carry 40 kg, and the maximum battery life is only a few hours, but it is enough.

On the same day, more than 100,000 robot dogs were sold, and Xinghai Group had to list "sold out" and announced that it did not expect such a hot sale. It sold 150,000 on the same day, exceeding the first batch of production capacity, so it suspended Open for pre-sale, I am very sorry for the impact.

Now, customers who didn't buy it will regret it very much.

The "unlimited" at the beginning, but in the end it was too popular and had to be "limited" due to production capacity problems.

A day's sales reached more than 40 billion, which is also a bright spot for the world's intelligent robot counterparts.

Originally, the market for intelligent robots was not small, because the product performance and functions of intelligent robots in the past were not recognized by customers.

So, as long as something is good enough to meet the needs of consumers, someone will still pay for a good product.

Judging from the current sales situation of Xinghai Group, if sales are released, it may not be a problem to exceed 300 billion yuan next year, or even more, exceeding the market capacity of 30 billion U.S. dollars according to market research.

With this pre-sale of intelligent robots alone, Xinghai Group has established a leading position in the global AI field, and also let international peers see the development potential of this industry. The company's senior management held meetings to discuss this topic.

It may be difficult to surpass the intelligent robots of Xinghai Group, but if copied, they can also grab soup from the market, which is enough for them to get rich.

In short, all peers or other machinery companies around the world are jealous of the sales of tens of billions of dollars in this day. This is the same as the pre-sale of hundreds of billions of smart cities a day ago, which caused a sensation.

Those domestic netizens commented and praised Xinghai Group.

"Xinghai Group is mighty, we finally have our own high-end intelligent robot, and it has not let us down."

"A few days ago, Ah San's netizens said that it was a sci-fi film, and the audiences were all actors. If it was really an actor, where did you find so many actors, and their acting skills are so good."

"Anyway, I just don't want to admit it. Xinghai Group has created a miracle."

"There are still a lot of people protesting Xinghai Group's AI development. I think they are saying that grapes are sour when they can't eat grapes. If they were developed by their own country, maybe they would not protest."

"Those countries don't want to see us well, and wish us bad luck."

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In order to successfully complete the tens of billions of orders for intelligent robots, Zhou Chen urgently held a production meeting and a technical meeting, requiring the two departments to cooperate well. The technical department assisted in the development of the production line and equipment debugging to ensure smooth mass production. The production department To train people and so on.

However, the factory assistants and other intelligent robots produced are of course given priority to use by their own companies.

Home assistants have begun to be popularized in company cafeterias and offices, cooking, cleaning dishes, helping to make coffee, helping with cleaning and cleaning, etc. The company plans to popularize according to the ratio of population:home assistant = 20:1. According to the number of employees in the company, Nearly 10,000 home assistants are needed.

Factory assistants are also widely used in various positions in various workshops, such as assembly and handling. Some types of work are configured according to a 2:1 or even 1:1 ratio. It is estimated that 10,000 to 20,000 factory assistants are needed.

In addition to the above two types of robots, there will be various types of robots used in various locations of the company.

To this end, the company will lay a dedicated robot channel to avoid humans as much as possible. If there is a conflict, it will give priority to humans and cars.

In the future, there will be more and more intelligent robots, and humans will mainly do creative scientific research.

When this decision was made public among employees, the employees discussed excitedly, and some employees worried whether their jobs would be replaced by robots.

In response to this problem, the company will arrange training, will not dismiss employees, and will arrange them to work in new positions.

Now, if the company wants to produce intelligent robots, it needs some workers, and some workers will be transferred from other workshops of the company.

In this way, the company's annual demand for new workers will decrease, while the demand for scientific researchers remains the same as usual, or even more.

"Fortunately, I joined the company earlier. According to the development speed of our company's intelligent robots, fewer and fewer workers will be recruited."

"This is also beneficial. Our work intensity has been greatly reduced. When I joined the Xinghai Group, I knew that robots would one day replace workers' repetitive tasks."

Employees discussed and felt that the company has developed rapidly in recent years.

On November 21, get off work in the afternoon.

When Mu Yang returned home, he saw his wife criticizing his son.

The son lowered his head and stood in front of the sofa. On the sofa sat a sad Song Xuelu, who was teaching him patiently: "Xiaofan, you have to listen carefully in class. Even if you know what the teacher is saying, you can't be so arrogant as to be in the classroom." Fold paper airplanes in class, if you really like folding, you can do it after class."

"I know everything in the book, and I just want to make a paper airplane."

Mu Yang stood behind his son and watched the mother and son communicate. After a while, he probably knew what was going on.

The teacher at the school told Song Xuelu that his son liked to do other things in class, which affected his classmates. Everyone learned to fold paper airplanes together, which seriously affected the class.

The teacher is also very open-minded, thinking that Mu Xiaofan is very smart, or that it is okay to go to a senior grade.

At the same time, stacking paper airplanes is not a big deal, and it can also enhance hands-on ability, but you can't do it in class.

On Mu Xiaofan's side, he felt that he understood what the teacher said, felt a little bored, and wanted to do what he liked to do.

But Song Xuelu felt that the child was already a little rebellious.

Of course, she approves of this kind of hands-on hobby, but the problem is that her son is doing it purely out of boredom instead of doing research, so she has a headache.

after dinner,

Mu Yang found his son alone, and asked him if he likes to make paper planes, or if he is bored to make paper airplanes.

"Father, I like to stack paper and fly, besides, I can understand the knowledge in textbooks." Mu Xiaofan still insisted on his own ideas.

"Father didn't say not to let you stack, but said, what time should you concentrate on doing one thing, how about this, dad will accompany you to stack the plane tonight." Mu Yang took the prepared two A stack of A4 papers is placed on the table, and each stack is 500 sheets. "We will finish folding this tonight, and we won't go to bed if we can't finish it."

Now, Mu Xiaofan's eyes widened, and he looked at his father's serious expression, so he had no choice but to fold down.

An hour later, all kinds of planes were piled up on the ground, and Mu Xiaofan was already a little disgusted with stacking planes.

During this hour, Mu Yang also knew that his son didn't like folding flying paper at all, but he patiently taught him to fold various airplanes.

Two hours later, Mu Xiaofan didn't want to do it anymore: "Dad, can you stop stacking?"

"That won't work, don't you like folding airplanes? Since you like it, you have to concentrate on doing one thing, and you can't give up at will. In fact, Dad doesn't like folding paper airplanes, but he still persists." Mu Yang smiled and pointed There were not many sheets of paper stacked on the paper airplane, and then he pointed to the A4 paper that was still very thick, deliberately scaring him, "We will finish folding these tonight."

Half an hour later, Mu Xiaofan cried: "Whoa, Dad, I won't be stacking anymore. I really won't be. I won't be stacking airplanes again in class. I will apologize to the teacher tomorrow."

Only now did Mu Yang put down the paper with satisfaction, but he also vomited.

"Well, remember from now on, you should concentrate on doing one thing at any time, and class should be learning. If you really understand what the teacher said, you can apply to the teacher to read more difficult books instead of Do something else."

"Yeah, yum." Mu Xiaofan wiped his tears with his hands, and finally heaved a sigh of relief. At home, he was most afraid of his father.

Mu Yang patted his son and asked him to clean up these paper airplanes by himself, and he was also very satisfied with this education.

the next day,

Mu Yang went to work as usual, and was going to inspect the training situation of aerospace planes and astronauts.