At present, all Zhao Yi can think of is the housekeeping service robot project and the global satellite communication project. Although these two projects cost a lot of money, the profits earned are also very considerable.
Moreover, these two projects basically fill the gaps in the current market. Although they may have a certain impact on traditional industries, the impact will not be too great, and the resistance encountered should not be too great.
In particular, housekeeping service robots are absolutely amazing high-tech products in this era. It is not even an exaggeration to call them science fiction. If such products enter thousands of households, they should be very popular among consumers.
A practical housekeeping service robot like this would be unthinkable in later generations without costing millions of dollars, but in this era, it only costs half of the average monthly salary to take it home.
For Zhao Yi, the bulk of the cost of such a robot is mainly in raw materials, and the investment in technology research and development is basically negligible, which is why the factory cost is so cheap.
If, as he expected, there are hundreds of millions of tenants around the world, due to the large scale of production, the cost will be further reduced, because the industrial chain surrounding the raw material field of robots will be relatively complete, and the cost will naturally increase. decline.
What he plans to do is just the integration of robots. As for the following parts and raw materials, he will leave them to other companies under his umbrella.
For example, chips are handed over to Tianxing Semiconductor Company and Qingtian Semiconductor Company, parts such as bones and skin are handed over to Cornerstone Materials Company, and various sensors are handed over to Tiangong Precision Instrument Company.
Since these companies had already assisted him in developing high-end robots and already had the technical capabilities in this area, they now only needed to lower the technical level by several levels.
In fact, the most expensive part of this kind of domestic service robot is probably the skin material, because in order to make people look very real, the robot's skin needs to reach the bionic level.
As for the cushion and bone materials inside, ordinary materials can be used, as long as the strength and toughness reach a certain level, and the weight is controlled at a level comparable to that of humans.
Although there will be many sensors, they are mainly arranged in a few key areas, such as palms, fingers, soles, eyes, etc. There will also be sensors in other parts, but they do not need to be so dense.
And compared with high-end robots, the sensitivity of the sensor does not need to reach the level of human neural response. It can be reduced by several levels, and the price is naturally much cheaper.
Finally, there is the price of the chip. With the current computer chips, it is a bit difficult to carry. It is not impossible, but it will make the robot's response slower.
And for security reasons, to avoid accidents caused by hackers or unstable operation, the security of the chip is also the first priority.
Therefore, he still needs to design a special set of chips, using a new instruction set written by himself. At the same time, the algorithm will be greatly improved. Although it is still a silicon-based chip, many things are different.
The price of customized chips like this is naturally very high, but if the quantity increases, it can be significantly reduced. His goal is to have the same price as the current general-purpose chips.
It's just that it may be higher in the early stage. After all, the required process is higher than the current highest process. It requires Qingtian Semiconductor Company and Tianxing Semiconductor Company to build new semiconductor production lines, which requires relatively large investments.
Another cost is structural processing. If you want the robot to have a flexible body, hands and feet, you naturally need high key structural processing capabilities. Otherwise, it will not only respond slowly, but also have a short service life.
In this regard, the high-end machining center developed by Tiangong Precision Instrument Company for high-end robots may be used for processing. However, these tasks will be done by oneself, and one only needs to purchase processing equipment.
The factory he built himself is likely to be a fully automatic intelligent factory, which does not even require a worker to participate. All links are either completed automatically by intelligent procedures or by robots.
On the one hand, this is to promote its own technological strength. If a company that specializes in manufacturing robots does not use robots for production, it is really unjustifiable.
On the other hand, it is to expand production capacity and reduce costs as much as possible. Even though he is processing and assembling mechanical parts, in fact, the technical content is not low at all.
I didn’t see him spending a full month to assemble a high-end robot before. Although the housekeeping service robot is definitely not that sophisticated, it is not only not easy for ordinary people to do the work, but it probably takes no less time than him.
Therefore, in his opinion, the best thing is to use robots to produce robots, which can not only achieve round-the-clock production, but also keep many secrets inside, and also have enough sci-fi publicity points to the outside world.
With such a selling point, the price is justifiable, and consumers are willing to pay for it. As for management, they are prepared to send high-end robot No. 1 as the president.
The face and behavioral habits of high-end robot No. 1 are exactly the same as mine. There should be no problem if it is allowed to go out and do management on its behalf.
And it not only manages the robot company, but also manages the global satellite communication service company behind it. People outside will only think that it is managing it, and will not realize that it is a robot.
Anyway, if there are any problems that it cannot handle, you can also connect to the background artificial intelligence, or directly contact yourself, which is very convenient.
Thinking of this, Zhao Yi returned to his studio, compiled the plan in his mind into documents, and sorted out the technologies required for all links, and passed them directly to Robot One.
After finishing all the work, a few hours passed. He looked at the sky outside and saw that it was already midnight. Zhao stood up, stretched, turned off the computer, and went downstairs to have dinner.
As soon as he came downstairs, he saw Zhou Jinyu coming in with a large bag of things, which made him curious. He must know that there is basically no shortage of things used in his home, and they are also high-end products.
Since there is a smart butler at home, basically if anything is lacking, the family helper will buy it as soon as possible. Whether it is food or clothing, there is no shortage at home, at least he has not been worried about it.
"Why did you suddenly buy so many things?" Zhao Yi asked.
"I saw a new shopping mall opening on the way here. It was very lively, so I went in and took a look. I found that many products were on sale, so I couldn't help but buy some." After hearing this, Zhou Jinyu said sheepishly.
This is the nature of women. When they see something on sale, they can’t help but buy it. If they don’t buy it, they will suffer a loss. Regardless of whether they need it or not, in fact, many things are wasted when they are bought.
Zhao Yi took the bag from her hand. Not to mention, it was quite heavy. If there was no car, she probably wouldn't be able to carry such a heavy thing home.
Put the bag on the table and open it. There is everything inside, and it is not a big brand. This makes sense. If it is a big brand, the probability of discount is relatively low.
He picked at it for a while and said: "You can divide these things later and see if the helpers at home need them. It would be a waste to leave them here anyway."
Hearing what he said, Zhou Jinyu nodded and said, "Okay, let's tell Lao Li later during the meal and let him divide the things. We can rest assured that he will do his job."
Just when Zhao Yi was about to go back to the sofa and lie down for a while, he glanced at the plastic bag and an idea flashed in his mind. He seemed to have some ideas, but they didn't feel very real.
I walked to the sofa and as soon as I sat down, my thoughts were straightened out, that is, the environmental harm caused by plastic bags. Although plastic bags are very convenient and very cheap, they are difficult to degrade without treatment and burial. .
Moreover, the environmental pollution and harm caused to animals by many plastic bags and plastic products cannot be ignored. Many animals have even died due to plastic products.
However, plastic bags and plastic products are indispensable components in daily life and industry, and it is impossible to ban them.
In the previous life, 1.2 trillion plastic bags were consumed every year alone, not including various plastic packaging. The total amount is estimated to be several times the amount of plastic bags used.
Since there is demand, there will naturally be a market, and where there is a market, there will naturally be production. It is difficult to rely on administrative orders to ban it, unless there are better alternatives.
This substitute must be able to degrade in a short period of time, and at the same time, the degraded materials will not harm the environment. More importantly, it must be cheap. Although it does not need to be similar to plastic products, it should not be too much higher.
His focus was on plastic bags and plastic packaging products, because these two are used the most and cause the most serious pollution. Their recycling value is also relatively low, and they are basically buried.
For him, this means the market, and at the same time, he can make his own contribution to the global environment. It can be said to be a deal that kills two birds with one stone.
Although this market is not usually noticed, the total market size is not small. If the substitutes are good enough, it will not be difficult to achieve annual revenue of hundreds of billions of yuan.
If the substitutes are good enough and can replace other packaging products, then the market will further expand and may bring him hundreds of billions of net profits every year.
This opened up Zhao Yi's thinking and found that he had originally only considered high-end fields, which was a wrong idea. In fact, the benefits of small things in daily life are not small.
For example, in the field of short-distance travel, there are balance bikes that have not yet been launched, as well as existing bicycles, electric bicycles, etc. Although they are not necessarily new products, they can adopt high-tech design and production methods.
He disdains to participate in ordinary products that already exist. Firstly, there is no technical content. Secondly, the price is not affordable and the profit margin is relatively low.
But even the existing ordinary products will become higher and higher after improvement and the use of high-tech technology. Not only are the selling prices not cheap, they can even create luxury goods in related fields.
Like common bicycles, if the frame is replaced with carbon nanomaterials, it will not only have a larger load capacity, be more durable, and be lighter in weight. It can not only be used in professional bicycle competitions, but also satisfy consumers who pursue high-quality life.
For example, electric bicycles, in fact, such products already exist, but the design is so-so, they do not look high-end, and the price is relatively close to the people.
But things are different when high technology is added. The first is the use of high-end materials, the second is the need to highlight design capabilities, and finally, relevant high-tech auxiliary systems can be added.
For example, adding an automatic driving system allows electric bicycles to realize automatic driving. Although the technology looks high-end, it is actually much simpler than automatic driving of cars.
Basically, he only needs to add an automatic balancing system and an automatic environment detection system. This is simply easy for him. He does not even need to do it himself, and other R&D personnel can complete these tasks.
For this kind of creative product, Zhao Yi felt that it was necessary to set up a special company to operate it, redesign ordinary products in real life, and add high-tech applications to make the products more sophisticated.
It's just a good idea, but it's really difficult to implement it. At least there are talents in this area in our country, but they are definitely not very many. If we want to do this, we don't have enough talents.
Unless he uses artificial intelligence to complete these creative design tasks, the primary artificial intelligence currently used is not enough, because the lack of creativity of primary artificial intelligence is its inherent flaw.
But these tasks are not difficult for intermediate artificial intelligence. The biggest difference between intermediate artificial intelligence and primary artificial intelligence is that it has creativity that is almost the same as that of humans.
As long as the computing power can keep up, it is possible for intermediate artificial intelligence to replace scientists. However, the computing power of current photon supercomputers is still far behind, but some creative designs are definitely enough.
Thinking of this, he kept this matter in mind. After the photon supercomputer was built and the intermediate artificial intelligence was built, he could start work in this area.
Maybe when this business starts to develop, the world will become more colorful, people's daily necessities may not be the same, and individuality can be fully demonstrated.
Extending his thinking, he noticed the problem of flexible manufacturing. The price of a creative product like this is definitely higher than that of ordinary products, and the market size may be large or small.
Even some creative products will undergo customized production. By then, the demand for flexible manufacturing will be greater, and only flexible manufacturing can solve the cost increase problem caused by small-volume orders.
In fact, Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company has been exploring flexible manufacturing, and some results have been produced and used in its own production lines.
However, in his view, these achievements are still a bit low-level and require more efforts in the field of flexible manufacturing technology. The highest level is to achieve fully automated flexible manufacturing.
However, there is no need to think about this level of flexible manufacturing now. Even if the machinery is fully automated, some links must still require manual participation, unless this part is done by robots.
Thinking of Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company, he felt that it was even more necessary to open such a creative enterprise. Anyway, he only needed to be responsible for the creative part. As for the production part, he could leave it to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company.
Although Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company has achieved tremendous development in the past year, it has not only won all the production orders for smartphones around the world, but has also expanded its other electronic product manufacturing business.
Since Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company's production efficiency is very high and the products produced have a high qualification rate, their manufacturing profits are not bad. Even with the increase in employee prices, there is still a good profit margin.
Of course, this is also related to the fact that the orders they are currently accepting are all from brother companies. The products they produce are still profitable, so they are naturally willing to pay higher OEM prices.
Of course, this foundry price is not high compared to external foundry prices, but it is high compared to the profit margin Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company obtains from it.
Because whether it is Polaris Company, Hengtong Communications Company or Huawei Technology Company, although many products are in a monopoly position, they are also the result of market-oriented operations. Even if orders are given to brother companies, they are based on market prices.
For example, Polaris Company has huge manufacturing capabilities. If the price of substituting it to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company is higher than the cost of production, then it is better to produce it yourself.
Moreover, blindly giving away profits will not do any good in improving manufacturing technology. This will make Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company lose its competitive vitality. It can only survive by relying on profit sharing and blood transfusions from its brother companies. This is not the enterprise that Zhao Yi wants.
The reason why he established Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company was for two main purposes. The first was to reduce the investment costs of many companies, allowing some companies to focus on the upstream links, and hand over the manufacturing links to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company.
In this way, many companies do not need such high operating capital. They may start a company with tens of thousands or millions. For example, the manufacturing sector is a sector with large investments, difficult management, and low profits.
For start-up companies, it is very unwise to invest limited capital in manufacturing construction, and it is not necessarily lower than the cost of professional manufacturing OEM companies.
The second purpose is to promote the further development of our country in the field of manufacturing technology. Although our country has indeed made rapid progress in the field of industrial manufacturing in recent years, many of them are actually leading the world.
But such progress was brought about by him alone. Without his continued intervention, I don't know whether it would have been able to advance by leaps and bounds.
Moreover, the manufacturing industry itself is an industry with low profits. If the manufacturing industry is too fragmented, many small-scale manufacturing companies will be formed, resulting in insufficient funds to improve the research and development of manufacturing technology.
In the long run, the strength of my country's manufacturing industry will become weaker and weaker, especially as my country's labor costs continue to rise, it is likely that the manufacturing industry will be transferred to countries with lower labor costs.
If it is a small country, this is not a problem. After all, anything you do can increase the overall national income. But for a country with a huge population like ours, if there is no manufacturing industry, the consequences will be unimaginable.
Those high-end industries are destined to accommodate a limited number of employed people. If we want to provide people with a sufficient employment environment, manufacturing is an industry that our country cannot afford to lose.
Therefore, the first thing he has to do is to hand over the parts that his companies can OEM to Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company. At the same time, this process also encourages Huaxin Precision Manufacturing Company to improve its own manufacturing technology and efficiency.
After these improvements are made, we can develop OEM business externally. With the price advantage, we can also provide higher wages to our employees, while allowing us to have a certain profit margin for technology research and development and upgrades. . (End of chapter)