When he got home, Yu Jingqiu poured Li Zetian a glass of water and said, "How's the talk? Did Joseph Engelberg agree?"
Li Zetian nodded and said jokingly, "I've already gone out in person, and the other party must not be deterred by my domineering side leaks?"
Yu Jingqiu smiled and said, "This Joseph Engelberg is amazing. I just checked 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 remarkable. It is the first company in the world to develop industrial robots. In order to promote industrial robots, Unimation will cost 65,000 US dollars. The robot is priced at $18,000!"
Li Zetian shook his head and said with a smile, "Unimation is really struggling, but it also confirms the company's vision. Their determination to promote industrial robots will make them a lot of money in the future. Before the 1970s, it was basically the world of Unimation. The company sold robots to various companies, including Europe and Japan, which greatly improved production efficiency.
However, this is also making the company gradually catch up with other companies when the industrial robot blowout of the latter era is taking place. For example, Japan's Kawasaki Heavy Industries signed a license agreement with Unimation, becoming Japan's pioneer in the field of industrial robots; Germany's KUKA developed and transformed the Unimation robot used by it into its first industrial robot, named Famulus, which is the world's first industrial robot. The first electromechanically actuated 6-axis robot…”
"Unimation is facing more and more competitors and is getting stronger and stronger! I think this should be one of the reasons why Joseph Engelberg intends to sell Unimation, and there are far fewer competitors for service robots. "
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It is said that after Joseph Engelberg returned to the hotel, he told the negotiating team he brought Li Zetian's request.
"Although the competition in the industrial robot market is fierce, with the investment from Chronos·Li, Unimation will be able to obtain sufficient research and development funds and still maintain its leading position in the industry! Engelberg, I agree to accept Chronos·Li's request for investment." said a woman in her 40s.
Engelberg nodded, then his eyes swept over the others.
"We have no opinion!" The other two negotiators shook their heads.
"That's the decision. I then informed Cruise and told him to hold Westinghouse so that we could get better conditions from Chronos Li's side!" Engelberg said.
The crowd nodded.
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So, after more than two weeks of tug-of-war negotiations, Umbrella Corporation invested US$300 million in Unimation, holding a 60% stake.
After the news of Unimation's acquisition by Li Zetian came out, the industry was shocked, as if a tiger rushed into the flock.
Li Zetian can provide Unimation with financial resources, technology and sales channels. Many factories such as Ant Factory, Apple Factory, Intel Factory, and Galaxy Network Factory all use industrial robots. In this way, the market shares originally belonging to other industrial robot companies will inevitably be taken away.
"Alas, the industrial robot industry will definitely be difficult in the future, and 80% will be monopolized by Unimation!"
"In the past few years, the development of industrial robots has been booming, and I originally planned to get involved in this industry, but when I heard that Chronos Li was also here, my legs instantly became weak. Fortunately, I didn't invest in building a factory, otherwise, in the future Don't lose it!"
"… "
At this time, at the request of Li Zetian, Unimation changed its name to Evolution Robot Company and established two departments of industrial robots and service robots.
Subsequently, job advertisements were placed in many media.
At the same time, they sent people to hold a job fair for the Evolution Robot Company at a well-known university in the United States.
Later, it plans to establish branches in the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Germany, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Australia and other regions, in addition to conducting business activities, and then cooperate with local colleges and universities to recruit outstanding talents to join .
Of course, Li Zetian also asked the headhunting company to poach other robot companies.
For a time, many top robot engineers resigned and joined the Evolution Robot Company.
The whole world can not help but be shocked by the series of actions of the evolution robot company!
"Fuck, this TM is too crazy. What are you doing to recruit so many robotic engineers?"
"Chronos Li changed the name of Unimation to Evolver Robotics, and I don't think it's right. Now it seems that he wants to make robots like "Terminator"! Evolver, Evolver, will robots evolve in the future? "
"Oh, it's so cool, it's too cool, is the Evolution Robot Company really going to develop robots that can evolve in the future?"
"… "
At this time, even Joseph Engelberg of the former Unimation company was shocked. They did not expect that Li Zetian's determination to develop robots was so great.
"Engelberg, if it goes on like this, the company's funds will soon be used up!" A shareholder frowned and said to Engelberg.
Engelberg expressed helplessness: "The company now belongs to Chronos Li, and I can't do it if he wants to. Moreover, the employees in the company support him because Chronos Li provides them with the best R&D conditions, and There are so many talented people joining in, and together we can create state-of-the-art robots, even artificial intelligence robots, think about it, it’s very exciting!”
"But… "
"No need, it's obvious that Chronos Li will inject capital into the Evolution Robot Company next, further diluting our shares. However, as long as the Evolution Robot Company develops well, even if the shares in our hands are diluted, its value will be It went up!" One shareholder laughed, "Don't you know that since Unimation changed its name to Evolver Robot Company, Wall Street has looked at our company very much? As far as I know, there are many evaluation agencies that evaluate Evolver Robot. The market value of the company is set at 1 billion US dollars. The original market value of Unimation was only a few hundred million US dollars! If you are not satisfied with Chronos·Li's approach, even if you sell stocks, you will earn several times! Does anyone of you want to sell stocks? I can buy it!"
The other shareholders were immediately speechless and looked at each other in dismay. No one proposed to sell their shares.
A few days later, Li Zetian came to Unimation and announced the establishment of an artificial intelligence laboratory.
People weren't actually surprised.
As soon as you hear the name "Evolution Robotics", you know that you are 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 A gathering of intelligence scholars who propose the establishment of 'artificial intelligence' as a separate discipline. The Dartmouth Conference formalized the term Artificial Intelligence, which is therefore considered a sign of the birth of artificial intelligence McCarthy's alpha-beta search method, Minsky's Snare, and Simon and Newell's 'Theorist of Logic' (10sicTheorist) were three highlights of the conference!"
"Since the Dartmouth Conference, artificial intelligence has developed rapidly, but soon encountered an artificial intelligence winter. However, in 1982, artificial neural networks have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain, bringing new opportunities to the development of artificial intelligence. Hope. The main feature of artificial neural network is the distributed storage of information and the parallelization of information processing, and it has the ability of self-organization and self-learning. There's a craze for neural networks!"
Li Zetian said solemnly: "Although the development of artificial intelligence is tortuous, the development potential is endless, and it 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 watch today, and I will make up for it in the fourth watch tomorrow.