Chapter 181: Explore the future (6k requests)
In business activities, timing is a particularly important key factor.
Many things that have been invented before are obviously very futuristic and forward-looking, but these inventions will not be implemented due to the influence of timing and environment.
The same is true for research in the field of robotics.
Boston Power completely abandoned the motor power system in 2005 and turned to the hydraulic power system.
The reason they made such a decision was because they were limited by the insufficient power density of the brushless motor at that time. The power density of the motor at that time was only 80w/kg, while the power density of the hydraulic pressure could reach 300w/kg.
But with the continuous development of electricity, the performance of the motor is also improving.
When the rare earth permanent magnet motor breakthrough is made in 2015, the power density of Tesla models' de-powered three-motors can reach 300w/kg, and by 2025, this data can continue to increase.
Even reach 2000w/kg.
The development potential of motor power systems is greater and has more superiority than hydraulic power systems.
But this takes time, and even the entire Dongdaalin needs to be researched and developed and put into production, and iterated continuously to reach a level far beyond the hydraulic power system.
And this cannot be achieved by individuals or even a company.
So before vigorously developing robots with motor power systems, turning to the drone market with lower requirements to make money, accumulate experience, and accumulate capital is undoubtedly a better choice.
The application market of drones is more sustainable than that of consumer-grade markets, such as agricultural plant protection, power inspection, etc., and its market size will exceed 100 billion.
When Wang Yushu and Wang Shan also began to ponder.
At the end of September, the evening is no longer so stuffy, and the wind has even had the coolness of autumn.
The barbecue stall near Lu Yao's company has a good business. Many people who come and go are young people working hard in the south. After work, they are in groups of three or five at the barbecue stall while they are at the barbecue stall at night It's cool, eat barbecue and drink beer.
The barbecue smoke from the barbecue stall swarmed up and scattered in the wind.
The people on different tables were drinking and talking, and it was so lively.
It is in such a situation, in the hustle and bustle of fireworks, Lu Yao and this group of people who are enough to change the future squatted on the open-air night stall table, chatting about the direction of the future.
After thinking for a while, Wang Yushu finally smiled and said, "In the drone market, DJI just launched Phantom1 in 2013, with shipments of more than 30,000. Everyone is indeed optimistic about the market prospects in this area." br>
After all, the application scenarios of small low-altitude drones are now visible and tangible.
Small and low-altitude no one has good application scenarios in shooting entertainment, drone performances, agricultural sowing and sprinkling, industrial testing, environmental monitoring, rescue and emergency response.
If there is application, there will be implementation, and if there is implementation, there will be market.
After hearing Wang Yushu's thoughts, Lu Yao smiled and pointed out: "Brother Shu, have you forgotten an application scenario?"
Wang Yushu was stunned for a moment and smiled, "There are indeed many application scenarios for small low-altitude drones. Are there any particularly potential market applications?"
Lu Yao smiled, "Military." br>
Wang Yushu raised his eyebrows immediately.
Wang Shan, who was on the table, seemed much calmer.
Lu Yao also proposed the military application of this field in the AI project he is doing now, including the idea of allowing robots or robot dogs to be equipped with built-in AI combat systems, which made Wang Shan remember it all the time Now.
So when he chatted with Wang Yushu and talked about his recent company business conditions, Wang Shan specially brought Wang Yushu over and introduced it to Lu Yao.
Lu Yao picked up the skewers that the boss of the barbecue stall just took and took a bite and thought, "The application prospects of drones in the military field are very great. After all, small low-altitude drones cost only ? Very cheap."
"If combined with a sufficiently accurate intelligent control model, the small drone will play unimaginable power on the battlefield."
In the future, An agricultural drone can drive more than 100 kilograms of pesticides at a time for continuous operation.
How sour would it be if the pesticides carried by the drone were replaced with something that exploded and exploded?
Even if a miniaturized drone is formed, it will be quite deadly on the battlefield as long as it forms enough clusters.
In the Hollywood movie "The Fall of White House" released last year in 2013, there was a scene where a drone cluster flew out to bomb the target, and this scene was a drone of Dongda University several years later The development company has realized it.
Lu Yao continued: "To achieve large-scale and high-precision drone cluster control, hardware development is one aspect, and algorithm development is also particularly crucial."
"It It is a drone! Or algorithms are the soul of all machines! "
Easy of the industrial capacity of Dongda, the unit price of drones will have a strong price advantage in the world, even drones The technical content itself is not particularly high.
But the algorithm that controls drones has extremely high value.
Once the future rare earth permanent magnet materials make a breakthrough, the "flight control algorithm" they developed is an invisible and intangible but real gold and silver mountain.
In the military-grade market, the Rainbow 4 made its first flight in 2011, and in 2014 they still have the opportunity to participate in the military-equipped system.
Lu Yao is worthy of being a marketing person. Under his vague excitement, the extremely exaggerated words directly mobilized the emotions of everyone on the table. Wang Yushu, who was in a financial crisis, seemed to see the light. The future is waving to him.
And his research will inevitably shine in the future and occupy a place.
Wang Yushu was excited: "When I heard you say this, I want to give up the research on ground robots and focus on the research on low-altitude drones."
Lu Yao was happy, this was his own efforts. Is it fierce?
In fact, "marketing" and "pyramid schemes" not only sound very similar, but even their core ideas are similar.
The only way the two act is very different, and then it becomes two completely different paths.
Lu Yao waved his hand: "Don't, there is a lot of room for development for ground robots. Although it is not as good as low-altitude drones in the civilian market, the prospects for official and military markets are still very large."
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Ground robots have unique advantages in post-disaster rescue, material transportation, battlefield recruitment and even rescue.
Lu Yao started drawing cakes again: "Think about it, then our robot dog will quickly advance to the front or not far from the enemy, and then the drone cluster on his back will fly out like a swarm of bees .This not only avoids the loss of drones during flight, but also greatly increases efficiency."
Through Lu Yao's remarks, everyone who eats barbecue thoughts that last year's Hollywood movie "White House" The picture in "Fall".
As a man, he is a child no matter how old he grows up.
There is no special male psychology in psychology, and male psychology is classified as "children's psychology".
So everyone made Lu Yao feel a little excited.
Men all like various industrial toys.
If you have the conditions, buy remote-control excavator toys worth tens of thousands of yuan, and if you don’t have the conditions, you can only be jealous of others.
In the group of men, the most awesome thing is to rub their own industrial machinery toys with their hands. For example, someone uses a computer and a bunch of waste to create a "tank simulator". Several old men even more It was based on the drawings searched online and after thinking about it myself, I finally created a three-person collaborative anti-aircraft gun model!
All metal!
As soon as this thing came out, it directly triggered the jealousy of male netizens on the Internet. A poor and innocent account can get millions of likes and nearly millions of views based on this.
The people in this table are now men, and they are very capable men.
When Lu Yao proposed a plan for them, they all felt that they could complete the plan.
Feng Ji, the game literati, was also happy at this moment, "Okay, I'm just looking for this kind of pleasure in the game world. You are so awesome, just rub your hands directly, right? Then I'll make it out I'll definitely enjoy it."
Wang Yushu smiled and raised his glass: "That's sure! Come on, I'll respect Mr. Lu."
It is always fun to meet people with similar interests. Now Lu Yao is not just an investor to Wang Yushu, but a like-minded friend.
Men make friends is that simple.
Everyone smiled and raised his glass of cool beer, Wang Yushu sighed: "Brother Shan told me before that Lu is a scientific research talent! Although he has no technical skills, But the development and imagination of scientific research are unmatched by ordinary researchers."
"I really believe it now."
Wang Shan also laughed and said, "I still feel it now." , Mr. Lu is simply a gift from God. In fact, major breakthroughs in many fields often come from the outside world, because they have been deeply rooted in an industry for too long, and it is easy to become rigid in thinking due to inertial thinking."
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Lu Yao also smiled and said, "So, if we have a major breakthrough in some aspects in the future, we can open source it."
"Yes!"
Wang Shan and Wang Yushu said in unison: "The spirit of the Internet is open source sharing! Technology should be like this."
After saying that, the two science and engineering men laughed, and then they raised their glasses and cried.
Wang Shan also said: "So, I actually don't like Apple phones, and I don't even like Jobs. His things are really good, but he is too paranoid, and many designs are shared with the Internet. Contradictory."
"By the way."
When Wang Shan said, he looked at Lu Yao and said, "Our AI data center project is well underway. The AI model we are studying has reached a new stage. You have to pay for it here, and we have to do the money. Called here."
Lu Yao smiled and said, "Okay, it costs me a lot of money for a barbecue."
Wang Shan couldn't be happy: "Although Our AI model has its own advantages, but the subsequent architecture and testing are still a huge workload. The most important thing is that my computing power is not enough."
At present, the labor at this stage Much of the computing power of intelligent models still depends on the CPU, but GPU has strong parallel computing power, and many platforms have begun to use GPU to accelerate deep learning tasks.
Nvidia also began to promote their GPUs for AI, especially their CUDA platform at this stage.
It's just that there were no GPUs specifically used for AI learning at that time, and even the industry's research on the AI field was still in the exploration stage.
This leads to Wang Shan and his team having to work harder than others in this area.
The mountain monster is not that easy to make.
Lu Yao smiled and said, "Take it slow, I can guarantee the basic cost of your computing power next year, but Brother Wang, in my opinion, although artificial intelligence computing power and energy are particularly important, it is the most important The most core is the algorithm.”
Just like the built-in algorithm of a drone. He is something that is almost invisible but crucial.
Wang Shan nodded after hearing this: "Don't worry, I will continue to deepen my efforts in the field of algorithms and constantly explore the boundaries of algorithms, just like Mr. Lu, you said--"
"AI is the soul of all machines."
When Feng Ji heard this, he seemed to have countless inspirations bursting out in his mind, cyberpunk, mechanical life, the universe and the future.
He is such a person with such a divergent mind.
Wen Ji sighed when he heard this: "Real technology should not be superior, nor should it be monopolized by any party. Now the Western world always looks at us with a inferior look, thinking that we are If AI is the first to be developed by the Western world, can it truly serve everyone? I think it is unlikely that they will only rely on technology hegemony Harvest us."
At this point, Feng Ji inserted the signature of the finished barbecue into the beer bottle in front of him: "You guys who are engaged in AI have to beat the tone of their souls."
After saying that, he raised his head in a daze and looked at the night sky after autumn: "I hope that one day in the future, a robot equipped with artificial intelligence will break through the fog of the future and stumble into this world."
"Let the future in my countless dreams become a reality."
How magnificent would that situation be.
Feng Ji's words also made Wang Shan and Wang Yushu imagine, while Lu Yao raised his glass in their imagination and shouted: "Respect the future!"
No mistakes are made, one song is made Post a book and read it in one 6-9!
So the others at the same table raised their glasses and shouted like children: "Respect the future!"
The beer glasses collided together, and the golden wine suddenly became agitated by the impact. The calming wine splashed out white foam again, like the "spark of inspiration" stirred up by the collision in the sea of thinking.
Tonight, everyone hardly talked about investment.
How much money is invested and how much shares are occupied, these seem to be very important in the future, but they seem to be not important.
When Wang Shan and Wang Yushu finished the barbecue and went back with a little drunkenness, Lu Yao watched them get in the car and looked back at the barbecue stall they had been to.
The barbecue stall business is just right.
The thick barbecue smoke drifted into the air, and the people at the barbecue stalls were still drinking and drinking, and the noisy conversation was filled with the picture of the world.
Lu Yao knew.
AI is a heavyweight scientific research project that can change the national fortune, but the real national fortune may be hidden in the fireworks on these streets and alleys.
In Dongda University, there will always be such a group of fools who do not believe in evil. They use codes as bricks and tiles, and use algorithms as steel bars. Under the pull of capital and the attack of doubt, they will forcibly build up the future. Bridge.
The world after 2010 is already terrible.
But fortunately, the future is never in the hands of the king who holds power, he is on the grassland where thousands of people grow up.
This grassland is full of wildfires, and the spring breeze blows and grows again.
Lu Yao withdrew his gaze from the fireworks and returned to the company with Feng Ji and Yang Qi.
Now, "Called" in Lu Yao's hands is getting more and more popular. The monthly flow makes Feng Ji and Yang Qi jealous, and they are also under pressure.
Lu Yao made such a great game with a team of more than 20 people. They have been working on more than 200 people here for so long. If they cannot gain a higher and more market share , then they will die of shame.
So Feng Ji and Yang Qi and others have all been holding back their energy recently.
They are actually all proud.
Otherwise, I wouldn't think about making the 3A game that belongs to the Chinese people during this period of time.
Prides always put pressure on themselves.
This is very painful.
But he can also make them make something better.
After Feng Ji and Yang Qi returned to the company, Feng Ji said to Yang Qi: "This barbecue has given me a lot of inspiration tonight. I will design a few more characters to come up, and I can't see if I can't do it. Enrich our hero library, and I think our worldview can be updated as well."
Yang Qi shook his head after hearing this, which means that his workload will increase sharply.
But he enjoyed it!
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The next morning, Wang Shan took Wang Yushu to Lu Yao's company again.
This time I’m talking about money.
Lu Yao was also very straightforward. He invested 15 million yuan in Wang Yushu's "Illustrator Technology", accounting for 10% of the shares. At the same time, Wang Yushu also invited Lu Yao to become their company's "special consultant". ”, giving Lv Yao the power to actually manage the company.
Lu Yao actually doesn't care about this.
After signing the contract in the afternoon and making the payment, Lu Yao smiled at Wang Yushu and said, "Although the money has been given to you, I won't care about how you use the money, but I have the account here. It needs to be checked every month.”
Before he knew it, Lu Yao actually became an investor.
The investment funds to Wang Yushu this time were allocated from his investment company, which was held by Lu Yao and managed by Liu Mulin.
The company has a special legal team and financial team, which mainly conducts regular account inventory and verification of the invested companies.
This is also a rigid regulation set by Lu Yao Investment Company.
Because you have to deeply intervene in the financial management of investment companies, many companies have some opinions about Lu Yao and their investment companies. When Liu Mulin went to Mihayou to negotiate investment cooperation, Mihayou was also because of this. The request ultimately rejected the investment from Lu Yao Investment Company.
But Lu Yao didn't feel a pity. He even hoped that this regulation would become a corporate culture for him to invest in the company.
Because when Lu Yao left his future, he saw too many companies burning a lot of money, but in the end he didn't even burn out a lot of money.
Jiyue Auto is backed by Baidu and Geely, and has invested 30 billion yuan for several years but ended in a sloppy manner, and has owed 7 billion yuan in debt holes.
Byte's MOBA mobile game invested by the company cost hundreds of millions of dollars, but in the end, it created a product around 2020 in 2025.
And the original Evergrande Auto.
certainly.
The whereabouts of money are discussed here, and the purpose may be different in different cases, but there is no doubt that how investors use money is very important.
It is a trivial matter to invest money. The key is that Lu Yao hopes that this money can help him quickly accumulate his foundation and carry himself to the future dining table.
The game companies I invested in before were to accumulate capital in different time periods.
And now!
Brother Shu brought by Brother Wang, he will help Lu Yao truly gain a foothold in the reality, which is the beginning of a million canal.
If Lu Yao could relied on "illustrator technology" to enter the ranks of military supplies, his value would be different again.
When Lu Yao made a name for himself in the field of drones/robots, and then with the accumulated reputation, it was natural to enter the field of new energy vehicles.
But the most important thing! Still AI!
No matter it is a drone, mechanical dog, new energy vehicle, or even a mobile phone track that is getting bigger and bigger in the future, AI is indispensable.
The support of AI will be unparalleled for the performance of the machine.
Lu Yao still can't understand why the head of Baidu actually said "I don't know where the AI application is implemented." When Lu Yao saw that Chief Li said this, Did he even doubt that this person is really a big shot in the technology industry?
In the future, lower-cost AI training will not be a problem, and less than six million dollars of funding can achieve results that can only be achieved by hundreds of billions of dollars.
But that was only the initial stage of AI development.
In Lu Yao's imagination, real AI can be as good as the level of artificial intelligence "Jarvis" in "Iron Man". Only when it reaches that level can artificial intelligence be truly matched Belongs to the name of "artificial intelligence".
After Wang Yushu received the investment, he had a new research direction and market prospects, and he was so energetic!
As for the financial review that Lu Yao requested, he certainly didn't care.
When everything was over, Wang Yushu said excitedly: "Mr. Lu, after we develop a drone, you must come and see our demonstration. Don't worry, I will expand our algorithm when I go back. Team match."
Wang Shan also smiled from the side and said, "We can communicate frequently."
Lu Yao laughed and said, "Then I'm looking forward to your results. ”
After signing the contract and getting the investment, Wang Yushu thought of paying out of his own pocket to invite Lu Yao, and Wang Shan and the others had a good meal together tonight.
This is the rule of asking for help.
You can do nothing before you get done, but if you get done, you have to express yourself.
But Lu Yao said considerately: "I know Brother Shu, you are so kind to go home. Hurry up and go back to do things. We don't do those stupid things."
"Hey!"
Wang Yushu is worthy of being a scientific researcher, and immediately left with great gratitude, and did not even let Lu Yao send him off.
Wang Shan watched Wang Yushu leave like this in the talk room, and he was a little incredible: "I thought I was already confused about the world, but I didn't expect that Yushu was even more dull than me." >
Lu Yao smiled and said, "It's normal for a scientific research person to do this."
Wang Shan sighed, "It's because he is engaged in scientific research that I'm worried, Lu You must not only review his finances, but also talk to him more if you have time."
Since you want to make market-oriented products, what the market needs, what things meet civil habits, and even the appearance is It does not conform to the public's aesthetics, but requires external feedback.
But pure science workers won't consider these.
This is also the reason why Wang Shan values Lu Yao, not only because Lu Yao has a more far-sighted gaze, but also because Lu Yao is a balance beam and link bridge between scientific researchers and the market.
Lu Yao heard Wang Shan say this and smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will care."
The market size of drones and robots in the civil market may not be particularly large. , but its real magical use is in the military product market, and the military product market in Dongda has a God of Wealth with a headscarf! !
(This chapter ends)