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Chapter 181 Let’s Explore the Future (6k Subscription)

In business activities, timing is a particularly important key factor.

Many things that have been invented in the past clearly have a strong sense of the future and are forward-looking, but these inventions cannot be implemented due to the influence of timing and environment.

The same is true for research in the field of robotics.

In 2005, Boston Dynamics completely abandoned the electric motor power system and turned to the hydraulic power system.

The reason they made such a decision was that they were limited by the insufficient power density of the brushless motor at that time. The power density of the motor was only 80w/kg, while the power density of the hydraulic motor could reach 300w/kg.

But with the continuous development of electricity, the performance of motors is also constantly improving.

By 2015, when rare earth permanent magnet motors are developed, the power density of Tesla models' three electric motors will reach 300w/kg, and by 2025, this figure will continue to increase.

Even reaching 2000w/kg.

Compared with hydraulic power systems, electric power systems have greater development potential and more advantages.

But this takes time, and may even require the entire Dongda to go all in on research and development and production, and continuous iteration to reach a level far beyond the hydraulic power system.

This cannot be achieved through the efforts of an individual or even a company.

Therefore, before vigorously developing robots with motor power systems, it is undoubtedly a better choice to turn to the drone market with lower application requirements to make money, accumulate experience, and accumulate capital.

Compared with the consumer market, the application market of drones is more sustainable in B-side scenarios such as agricultural plant protection and power inspection, and its market size will exceed 100 billion.

After hearing what Lu Yao said, Wang Yushu and Wang Shan also fell into deep thought.

In Shangnan at the end of September, the nights were no longer so hot and humid, and there was even an autumn chill in the wind.

The barbecue stall near Lu Yao's company is doing very good business. Many of the people who come and go are young people who work hard in Shangnan. After work, they gather in groups of three or five to eat barbecue and drink beer at the barbecue stall in the coolness of the night.

The barbecue smoke from the barbecue stall rose up and spread in the wind.

People at different tables were drinking and chatting happily, it was very lively.

It was in such a scene, in the hustle and bustle of life, that Lu Yao and this group of people who could change the future squatted at an open-air night stall table, chatting about the direction of the future.

Wang Yushu thought for a while before finally saying with a smile: "In the drone market, DJI just launched the Phantom 2013 in 1, with shipments exceeding . Everyone is indeed optimistic about the market prospects in this area."

After all, the application scenarios of small low-altitude drones are now visible and tangible.

Small low-altitude unmanned aerial vehicles have good application scenarios in filming entertainment, drone performances, agricultural sowing and spraying, industrial testing, environmental monitoring, rescue and emergency response.

Where there is application, there will be implementation, and where there is implementation, there will be a market.

After listening to Wang Yushu's idea, Lu Yao smiled and pointed out: "Brother Shu, have you forgotten an application scenario?"

Wang Yushu was stunned for a moment, then smiled and said, "Small low-altitude drones do have many application scenarios. Are there any other market applications with special potential?"

Lu Yao smiled and said, "Military affairs."

Wang Yushu immediately raised his eyebrows.

Wang Shan, who was sitting at the same table, seemed much calmer.

For the AI ​​project he is currently working on, Lu Yao had originally specifically proposed the military application of this field. The idea of ​​equipping robots or robot dogs with built-in AI combat systems is something Wang Shan still remembers.

So when he chatted with Wang Yushu and talked about his company's recent business conditions, Wang Shan specially pulled Wang Yushu over and introduced him to Lu Yao.

Lu Yao took a bite of the skewers that the owner of the barbecue stall had just brought up and thought: "The application prospects of drones in the military field are very great. After all, how much does a small low-altitude drone cost? It's very cheap."

"If combined with an intelligent control model of sufficient precision, small drones will be able to exert unimaginable power on the battlefield."

In the future, an agricultural drone may be able to deploy more than one hundred kilograms of pesticides at a time for continuous operations.

How cool would it be if the pesticides carried by drones were replaced with something else that explodes very loudly?

Even small drones can be quite deadly on the battlefield as long as they form enough clusters.

In the Hollywood movie "White House Down" released in 2013, there is a scene where a swarm of drones flies out to bomb a target, and this scene was realized by the drone development company of the University of Tokyo a few years later.

Lv Yao continued: "To achieve large-scale, high-precision drone swarm control, hardware development is one aspect, and algorithm development is also particularly important."

“It’s a drone! Or rather, the algorithm is the soul of all machines!”

With Dongda's industrial capacity, if it continues to develop, the unit price of drones will have a strong price advantage in the world, and even the technical content of the drones themselves is not particularly high.

But the algorithms that control drones are of extremely high value.

Once a breakthrough is made in rare earth permanent magnet materials in the future, the "flight control algorithm" they develop will be an invisible and intangible but real gold and silver mountain.

In the military-grade market, Rainbow 2011 made its first flight in 2014, and in they still have the opportunity to participate in the military product supporting system.

Lu Yao is worthy of being a marketer. With his hidden excitement, his highly expressive words directly mobilized the emotions of everyone at the table. Wang Yushu, who was in deep financial crisis, seemed to see a bright future waving at him.

And his research will surely shine and occupy a place in the future.

Wang Yushu was so excited: "Hearing you say that, I want to give up the research on ground robots and concentrate on the research on low-altitude drones."

Lu Yao was amused. Did he exert too much force?
In fact, "marketing" and "MLM" not only sound similar, but even their core ideas are similar.

It's just that the two have very different ways of doing things, and then they become two completely different paths.

Lu Yao waved his hand and said, "No, there is also a lot of room for the development of ground robots. Although they are not as good as low-altitude drones in the civilian market, they still have great prospects in the official and military markets."

Ground robots have unique advantages in post-disaster rescue, material delivery, battlefield reconnaissance and even rescue.

Lu Yao started to make plans again: "Just think about it. When the time comes, our robot dog will quickly rush to the front or side of the enemy, and then the drone cluster on its back will fly out like a swarm of bees. This will not only avoid the loss of drones during flight, but also greatly increase efficiency."

Through Lu Yao’s narration, the scenes from last year’s Hollywood movie “White House Down” came to the minds of everyone eating the barbecue.

Men, no matter how old they are, always have a childish side.

There is even no specialized male psychology in psychology, and male psychology is classified as "child psychology."

So everyone was a little excited by what Lu Yao said.

Men all like all kinds of industrial toys.

Those who can afford it can buy a remote-controlled excavator toy worth tens of thousands of dollars, while those who can't can only envy others.

Among the men, the most amazing ones are those who make their own industrial mechanical toys. For example, someone used a computer and a bunch of waste materials to make a "tank simulator". A few old men even followed the drawings they found on the Internet and combined their own thinking to make a three-person coordinated anti-aircraft gun model!
Full metal!

As soon as this thing came out, it immediately sparked the jealousy of male netizens online. A penniless account was able to get millions of likes and nearly 100 million views by this.

Now all the people at this table are men, and they are very capable men.

When Lu Yao proposed an idea to them, they all felt that they could complete it.

Feng Ji, the gaming literati, also said happily: "Well, I was just looking for this kind of pleasure in the gaming world. You guys are awesome. You can just rub it in real life, right? When you make it, please let me have the fun."

Wang Yushu laughed and raised his glass: "Of course! Come on, let me toast to Mr. Lu."

It is always a pleasure to meet people with similar interests. Now Lu Yao is not only an investor to Wang Yushu, but also a good friend with similar interests.

It’s that easy for men to make friends.

After everyone drank a glass of cool beer with a smile on their faces, Wang Yushu smacked his lips and exclaimed, "Brother Shan told me before that Mr. Lu is a great scientific researcher! Although he doesn't have much technical ability, his vision and development of scientific research are unmatched by ordinary researchers."

"Now I really believe it."

Wang Shan also laughed and said, "I still feel that President Lu is a gift from God. In fact, major breakthroughs in many fields often come from outside. If you work in an industry for too long, it is easy to become rigid in thinking due to inertia."

Lu Yao also laughed and said, "So, if we have a major breakthrough in a certain area in the future, we can open source it."

"Correct!"

Wang Shan and Wang Yushu said in unison: "The spirit of the Internet is open source and sharing! Technology should also be like this."

After saying this, the two science and engineering guys burst into laughter, and then they clinked their glasses.

Wang Shan also said: "So, I actually don't like Apple phones, and I don't even like Steve Jobs's products. His products are indeed very good, but he is too paranoid, and many of his designs are contrary to the sharing spirit of the Internet."

"correct."

Wang Shan looked at Lu Yao and said, "Our AI data center project is going well, and the AI ​​model we are researching has also reached a new stage. You have to transfer the money to us."

Lu Yao smiled and said, "Okay, okay, a barbecue will cost me a lot of money."

Wang Shan, however, was not very happy: "Although we have made some progress in building the AI ​​model, the subsequent architecture and testing are still a huge workload. The most important thing is that the computing power here is not enough."

At this stage, the computing power of many artificial intelligence models still relies on the CPU, but the GPU has strong parallel computing capabilities, and many platforms have begun to use GPUs to accelerate deep learning tasks.

It was also during this phase that Nvidia began promoting their GPUs for AI, especially their CUDA platform.

However, at that time, there were no GPUs specifically for AI learning, and even the industry's research in the field of AI was still in the exploratory stage.

This means that Wang Shan and his team have to work harder than anyone else in this area.

It's not easy to be a mountain-opening monster.

Lu Yao smiled and said, "Take your time. I can guarantee your basic computing power expenses next year. But Brother Wang, in my opinion, although computing power and energy are particularly important for artificial intelligence, the most important thing is the algorithm."

Just like the built-in algorithm of a drone, it is something almost invisible but vital.

Wang Shan nodded after listening to him: "Don't worry, I will continue to delve deeper into the field of algorithms and continue to explore the boundaries of algorithms, just like what you said, Mr. Lu -"

“AI is the soul of all machines.”

After hearing this, Feng Ji seemed to have countless inspirations bursting in his head, cyberpunk, mechanical life, the universe and the future.
He is a person with such a divergent mind.

Feng Ji sighed when he heard this: "Real technology should not be high and mighty, and even less should it be monopolized by any one party. Now the Western world always looks down on us, thinking that we can't do this or that."

"If AI is first developed by the Western world, can it really serve everyone? I think it is unlikely. They will only rely on technological hegemony to reap the benefits of us."

At this point, Feng Ji signed his barbecue and put it into the beer bottle in front of him: "You AI people need to nail down the tone of the soul."

After saying this, he looked up absentmindedly, gazing at the night sky after the beginning of autumn: "I hope that one day in the future, robots 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 reality."

What a magnificent scene that would be.

Feng Ji's words also made Wang Shan and Wang Yushu imagine a lot, and Lu Yao raised his glass in their imagination and shouted: "Cheers to the future!"

So the others at the table raised their glasses and shouted like children: "To the future!"

The beer glasses collided with each other, and the golden beer suddenly became agitated by the collision. The calm beer then splashed out white foam again, just like the "spark of inspiration" aroused by the collision in the sea of ​​​​thoughts.

There was little talk of investing tonight.

How much money is invested and how many shares are held seem to be very important in the face of the future, but they also seem to be unimportant.

After finishing the barbecue, when Wang Shan and Wang Yushu went back together, a little drunk, Lu Yao watched them get on the car and looked back at the barbecue stall where they had sat.

The barbecue stall is doing great business at this time.

Thick barbecue smoke drifted into the air, and people at the barbecue stalls were still clinking glasses, and the noisy conversations were a picture of the human world.

Lu Yao knew.

AI is a heavyweight scientific research project that can change the destiny of a country, but the true destiny of the country may be hidden in the fireworks in these streets and alleys.

In Todai, there is always a group of fools who do not believe in evil. They use codes as bricks and algorithms as steel bars, and build a bridge to the future under the pull of capital and the squeeze of doubt.

The world after 2010 has been bad.

But fortunately, the future is never in the hands of a king in power, but in the grasslands where millions of people grow up.

This grassland cannot be completely burned by wildfires, it will grow again with the spring breeze.

Lu Yao withdrew his gaze from the bustling atmosphere and returned to the company with Feng Ji and Yang Qi.

Now the popularity of "Shoot" in Lu Yao's hands is getting higher and higher. The monthly revenue makes Feng Ji and Yang Qi jealous, but they are also under tremendous pressure.

Lu Yao used a team of more than 20 people to make such an awesome game. They have more than 200 people working on it for such a long time. If they cannot get a higher and larger market share, they will die of shame.

So Feng Ji, Yang Qi and others have all been holding back their energy recently.

They are actually all proud.

Otherwise, we wouldn’t have thought of making a 3A game for the Chinese people during this period of time.

And proud people always put pressure on themselves.

This is very painful.

But he can also make them make better things.

After Feng Ji and Yang Qi returned to the company, Feng Ji said to Yang Qi: "This barbecue tonight gave me a lot of inspiration. I will design a few more characters to see if they can enrich our hero library. In addition, I think our worldview can also be updated."

Yang Qi shook his head after hearing this. This meant that his workload would increase sharply.

But he enjoys it!

……

The next morning, Wang Shan brought Wang Yushu to Lu Yao's company again.

This time it's about money.

Lu Yao was also very decisive. He invested 10 million yuan into Wang Yushu's "Fantasy Technology" and held a % stake. At the same time, Wang Yushu also invited Lu Yao to become their company's "special consultant", giving Lu Yao the power to actually manage the company.

Lu Yao actually didn't care about this.

After signing the contract and paying the money in the afternoon, Lu Yao smiled at Wang Yushu and said, "Although the money has been given to you, I will not control how you use it, but I will check the accounts every month."

Before he knew it, Lu Yao had also become an investor.

The investment funds given to Wang Yushu's company this time were allocated from his investment company, which is owned by Lu Yao and managed by Liu Mulin.

The company has a dedicated legal team and financial team, which are mainly responsible for regularly checking and verifying the accounts of the invested companies.

This is also a mandatory rule set by Lu Yao Investment Company.

Because they have to deeply intervene in the financial management of the investment company, many companies have some opinions about Lu Yao and his investment company. When Liu Mulin went to miHoYo to discuss investment cooperation, miHoYo ultimately rejected the investment from Lu Yao's investment company because of this requirement.

But Lu Yao did not feel it was a pity. He even hoped that this rule would become a corporate culture of the company he invested in in the future.

Because when Lu Yao was leaving the future, he saw too many companies burning a lot of money but in the end getting nothing out of it.

Jiyue Automobile, backed by Baidu and Geely, invested 70 billion yuan over several years but ended up in a mess and left with a debt hole of billion yuan.

ByteDance spent hundreds of millions of dollars on its investment in the MOBA mobile game, but in the end it produced a product of around 2025 in 2020.

There is also Evergrande Automobile.
of course.

As for where the money goes, different cases have different statements and the purposes may also be different, but there is no doubt that how investors’ money is used is crucial.

It’s no big deal if the investment money is lost. The key is that Lu Yao hopes that the money can help him accumulate foundation quickly and put himself on the dining table in the future.

The previous investment in gaming companies was to accumulate financial capital in different time periods.

And now!
Brother Shu, brought by Brother Wang, will help Lu Yao gain a firm foothold in reality and is the beginning of the millions of canal workers being tied to him.

If Lu Yao could enter the ranks of military supplies with the help of "Fantasy Equipment Technology", his worth would be different.

Once Lu Yao becomes famous in the drone/robot field, it will be natural for him to use his accumulated reputation to enter the new energy vehicle field.

But the most important thing is AI!

Whether it is drones, robot dogs, new energy vehicles, or even the mobile phone market which will become increasingly larger and more competitive in the future, AI is indispensable.

The support of AI will make the performance of the machine unparalleled.

Until now, Lu Yao still can't understand why the head of Baidu would say something like "I don't know where the application of AI will be implemented." When Lu Yao saw Head Li say this, he even doubted for a moment whether this person was really a big shot in the technology world?
In the future, lower-cost AI training will not be a problem, and less than $6 million in funding can achieve results that would take hundreds of billions of dollars.

But that was just the beginning of AI development.

In Lu Yao's vision, true AI can achieve the level of the artificial intelligence "Jarvis" in "Iron Man". Only when it reaches that level can artificial intelligence truly deserve the name of "artificial intelligence".

After Wang Yushu received the investment, he had a new research direction and market prospects, and he was full of energy!
As for the financial review requested by Lu Yao, he certainly didn't care.

When everything was over, Wang Yushu said excitedly: "Mr. Lu, when we develop a drone, I will definitely invite you to come and see our demonstration. Don't worry, I will expand our algorithm team when I return."

Wang Shan also smiled and said, "We can communicate more often."

Lu Yao laughed and said, "Then I look forward to your results."

After signing the contract and getting the investment, Wang Yushu thought about paying out of his own pocket to treat Lu Yao, Wang Shan and others to a good meal in the evening.

This is the rule for asking someone to do something for you.

You don't have to show any expression before you get things done, but you have to show your expression after you get things done.

But Lu Yao said considerately: "I know that you are eager to go home, Brother Shu, go back and do your work quickly. Let's not do those empty things."

"Eh!"

Wang Yushu was indeed a researcher, and he immediately left with many thanks, and didn’t even let Lu Yao see him off.

Wang Shan was in the meeting room and saw Wang Yushu just leave like that. He was a little surprised: "I thought I was already ignorant of the ways of the world, but I didn't expect Yushu to be even more ignorant than me."

Lu Yao smiled and said, "It's normal for a researcher to be like this."

Wang Shan sighed, "I'm worried because he's a researcher. Mr. Lu, you should not only review his finances, but also talk to him more when you have time."

Since we are making products for the market, we need external feedback on what the market needs, what conforms to civilian habits, and even whether the appearance conforms to the public's aesthetic taste.

But pure science and technology people don't consider these.

This is also the reason why Wang Shan values ​​Lu Yao, not only because Lu Yao has a more far-sighted vision, but also because Lu Yao is a balance beam and connecting bridge between scientific researchers and the market.

When Lu Yao heard Wang Shan say this, he smiled and said, "Don't worry, I will take it to heart."

The market size of drones and robots in the civilian market may not be particularly large, but their real magical use is in the military market, and the military market of Dongda University has a turbaned god of wealth! !
(End of this chapter)