Infinite Earth Guardian

In the next few days, the TV shows were all about the alien robot. Many soldiers who participated in the war gave speeches, some regular customers took the opportunity to solicit votes, and some weapon sellers began to promote armed protection for their families.

It took almost a month before the popularity went down, and it was suppressed by the news of a company called USR.

USR, an old-fashioned intelligent robot company, previously produced products including sweeping robots, robot toll collectors, and robot waiters.

Many people say that the company's products are more gimmick than practical, the price is not cheap, and it is said that it is about to go bankrupt. But a few days ago, USR received a large amount of financing, and the company also announced that their new home robot will be on the market soon, and the price will be much lower than everyone's expectations.

Our NS3 household robot will be launched soon. This is an epoch-making product with extremely high intelligence. It will be a new industrial revolution!

Fan Mang watched the commercials on TV. The shape of this robot was already very similar to that of a human, with human facial features, torso, and limbs.

You can customize the appearance, and if you use top-quality materials, it will look like a real person.

Fan Mang always felt a little familiar with USR company and robots.

Raptor, search for information about robots. Have there been household robots with so many functions before?

No. The performance of this robot is the most powerful among the household robots known so far. The program coding method and mechanical materials used all make me feel a little familiar.

Fan Mang stopped holding the cup: You said you have a sense of familiarity?

Shouldn't those materials be the top secret of the military? How did the private company get them? Or is this actually a company secretly controlled by the military?

USR's new robot, we ordered one.

Don't worry, I've searched for it before they started accepting orders, and it may take a few months to actually make it. The raptor held a large barrel in his hand, which contained a barrel of diesel oil. He drank it with his head up, like a drink, Master, can I buy gasoline next time, I like that smell better.

No problem, money can get you any drink you like, and mixed drink oil, you can try it next time.

...

In Chicago, in the office on the top floor of the USR Group headquarters building, Simon Simmons is sitting on the sofa with a cup of coffee in his hand.

Lawrence, I didn't expect you to develop a new intelligent robot so quickly. How much are you expected to sell and how much can we earn?

The Seventh District was gone, and he was no longer a government secret worker, but a complete white man. However, he came out of the secrecy department, and he had already prepared for it, and now he has transformed into an investor in Chicago.

He used capital and technology to invest in this USR company, because this company was already researching intelligent robots, and also invited Professor Ronning, an expert in robot research.

The company's main shareholders were persuaded by Chairman and CEO Lawrence to invest all the company's funds in the intelligent robot project, and borrowed a large amount from the bank, and each shareholder even invested a sum of money.

Now it only took one month, their theoretical research and development was successful, and a prototype was made,

Start advertising and accept orders.

According to what everyone discussed before, they won't earn too much from a robot, and the profit margin is about 30%, which is already an extremely high profit.

Simmons, don't worry, we won't be able to make money in the first generation. We may not even be able to make money in the second generation.

Simmons sat up straight: What do you mean?

What's the matter, you think I don't have enough money to invest, so you don't want to share it with me? The core technology is provided by me, without me, can you make such an intelligent robot?

Simmons, don't worry. Do you know how much all our shareholders have spent to invest in this project? Including my financing, our original shareholders' investment, bank loans, etc., more than 10 billion US dollars!

You don't think that our first batch of products can make back 10 billion dollars? We even have a pitiful publicity fee now. There are only three TV station advertisements. We only have online and telephone orders, no physical stores , without distributors, without agents, how much do you think you can sell?

And currently we only have a market in the United States, and we will expand to overseas markets in the next step. At least the English-language market will be fine. How much money will it cost?

We earn 1,000 U.S. dollars for a robot. To earn back 10 billion, we need to sell 10 million units. This does not include after-sales, personnel salaries, R\u0026D expenses, advertising expenses, transportation expenses, etc. In fact, Our net profit is nowhere near that high.”

Then why not sell it more expensive? Simmons spread his hands, Our products are expensive, so people will be willing to buy them. We are targeting middle-class and above families with houses and cars. We use this to replace housekeepers and nannies. , gardener and other staff, even if it sells for ten thousand dollars, it’s not expensive, right?”

No, Simmons, how many middle-class families can there be? 10 million units, that's 10 million families. Do you think our products can guarantee that every middle-class family will buy one? Our products, how long will they It will only be eliminated once? We want to target all families, so that ordinary families can afford it.

If you do the math, if one percent of households around the world buy our products, then there will be more than 10 million units sold.

Our first goal is to get 2% of the families to buy it. But if the non-English-speaking families are excluded, how much more difficult will it be to achieve sales of tens of millions of units?

We in the United States, the first step is to make sure that 10% of the households buy it. And how many are there, just a few million. This is not a car, and for many families, it is not a necessity.

We will continue to increase research and development and publicity while selling, and sell a part of it first for us to continue purchasing materials and production, for personnel compensation and advertising, and then increase our user base on NS4 products.

When NS5 is launched, we will be able to make household robots enter thousands of households and really replace other robots with different functions.

Our best product before was the anthropomorphic household robot NS2. We have a list of many customers who will be targeted for sales. Even the first step, we are going to trade in the old for the new. Let those people replace us with a sweeping robot plus some money The new household robot, in order to quickly occupy the market, and let the word of mouth ferment.”

Simmons, you are an important shareholder of the company, but we have invested more money, and we also hope to make money as soon as possible. But you have to do it step by step, can you understand this?

In one year, at most two years, each of us can become a billionaire!

But this year, we don't have any dividends, and I'm afraid there won't be any in the first half of next year, and maybe not in the second half of the year, but our company's stock will be listed.

At least on paper, their stock market value will exceed 10 billion, and the company can easily break through 100 billion, or even reach trillions of dollars.

Only then did Simmons lean back on the sofa again. He could afford to wait for a year or two. Anyway, all his money has been invested, and all the technical materials have been invested, so he can only believe Lawrence's words.

He has also seen the company's products, and the intelligence is too far behind. He really needs to develop a new generation of products. He never thought that they could be comparable to those alien robots, but it can't be too far behind.

Lawrence, I trust your judgment. I don't know much about company management, but you know very well what I used to do.

If he finds out that Lawrence has tricked him, don't blame him for being rude. He knows hundreds of ways to make a person disappear without knowing it!

The corners of Lawrence's eyes twitched twice: Hahaha, Simmons, our core technology is developed based on your information. You are also a shareholder and director of the company. Is there anything we can hide from you? After two years at most , you can buy a big villa, buy an airplane and yacht, and even buy a small island or something to build and play by yourself.”

The two chatted for a while before Simmons left. The smile on Lawrence's face faded, threatening me? I am the chairman and CEO of the company, elected by other shareholders.

You, Simmons, are very powerful, but you have already left there. After two years, how many obedient men do you still have? At that time, your assets worth tens of billions of dollars will be wanted by many people, because this is the chicken that lays the golden eggs!

...

A month later, a courier arrived at Fan Mang's home. Take it back to the house and disassemble it, and it is an anthropomorphic household robot.

Fan Mang looked at the instruction manual, there are quite a lot of functions on it, and he doesn't know if it is really easy to use. The raptor next to him was scanning the home robot. His eyes were slightly disappointed, and no life fluctuations were detected.

After simply giving some orders, Fan Mang felt that this was not bad, the degree of intelligence was not too high, but it could complete some specific instructions.

For example, it can sweep the floor, clean the windows, serve dishes, weed the lawn, clean the swimming pool, know to charge the battery by itself, never leave the yard, and call the police if a stranger breaks in illegally, etc.

It is much better than traditional sweeping robots, but it can only do these things.

I heard that USR is still developing other types of robots, such as those that can repair cars, cook, chat with you and go shopping, etc.

Fan Mang waved his hand: Go and sweep the floor.

Master, it is a little bit similar to me, the material is similar, and the code is a little bit similar, but he is not my kind.

Don't be sad, you still have me, I can accompany you. Let's go to the drive-in theater to watch a movie together, here, here is a snack for you. Fan Mang shook a bag of batteries in his left hand.

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