Liu Yingbo and his partners are ready to play big. His company, ROOBO, has 5 products that have been exposed, including children's robots, pet dog robots, VR all-in-one machines, drones, and bone conduction headphones. Most of these products, ROOBO, are in the form of investment and they are included under the aegis. For a long time, ROOBO faced the outside world as the "global smart hardware distribution platform." Therefore, it is easy for people to mistakenly believe that ROOBO is a home-invested company.
Liu Yingbo said that these have always been mere appearances. At the very beginning of ROOBO's creation, it was to be a company that had artificial intelligence and robotics as its core business. In this large layout, the business outside robots (VR-one, drones, and bone-conduction headphones) are promising areas for the robot stewards to provide content or synergies through other means. In robot hardware and artificial intelligence technology that makes robots smart, ROOBO currently has a main team of more than 300 people, providing energy for children's robot puddings, pet dog robots Domgy and other products not yet available.
Perhaps, the company's English name ROOBO (a variant of the word robot) and the Chinese name "smart housekeeper" are more explicit comments on the future vision. Liu Yingbo told Lei Fengwang that several founders of ROOBO had a judgment in early 2014 that the threshold for startups in the robotics field would soon become higher and they must quickly put the shelves together. The “shelf†here refers to a complete set of robot hardware and software systems, including the hardware control part, the operating system part with voice dialogue as the core, and the access part of the Internet service.
In the end, the big goal of ROOBO is to become a robot "smart steward" in the family. Liu Yingbo admits that they do not know what kind of products will be accepted by more families, but with a good "shelf", they can calmly try.
The “pudding†that ROOBO first introduced to the market is a product designed for children and it has now reached the second generation. From the basic functional point of view, it is a chat robot, but also a home camera. Liu Yingbo told Lei Fengnet that after he had launched a function to push baby's video, he opened the pudding app at least 10 times. He is happy to pick up the phone and show it to the people around him - when his older child appears in front of the pudding, Pudding will shoot a short video to the mobile phone. According to Liu Yingbo, this feature mainly uses the face recognition function and only shoots children from 0 to 6 years old.
"Pudding" is a carrier of the ROOBO robot system. They kept the frequency of the two-weekly update, constantly improved its voice dialogue system, and explored how to access Internet services in a way that is more easily accepted by users. The overall idea is to use the product first and obtain training data to improve the entire system.
The dog robot Domgy is another robot system carrier. It is a mobile robot, and its appearance and industrial design are very attractive. Moreover, it was the winner of the German Red Dot Design Award in 2016. In Korea, its name is iJINI, a product created by the Korean Robot Entrepreneurial Team Innovative Play Lab and has been funded by the Korean government. In April 2015, the ROOBO team injected $4 million into the A-round financing of the Korean company and became a strategic investor.
This is not a financial investment. Liu Yingbo told Lei Fengwang (search for "Lei Feng Net" public concern) that although Dommy had been working in Korea for many years, he was a robot with great shape, but this product was not mass-producible. In essence, it is a research-type laboratory product, not a commodity. ROOBO replaced the core components of this product, responsible for the development of its Chinese AI dialogue system, and the docking of various services, and brought it to exhibitions around the world. It seems that ROOBO has high hopes for this product. They feel that a dog as a housekeeper is more imaginative than a TV box, router, or speaker. At least people are more likely to "empathize" with pets that talk and talk, rather than falling on routers.
The laboratory work of an overseas robot team like Domgyy turned into a commodity story, and the ROOBO team has some heavy news in the negotiations, but it is not convenient to disclose it.
As CEO and co-founder of ROOBO, Yingbo Liu participated in the roundtable discussions at the Global Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Summit (CCF-GAIR). He said that when practitioners communicate in private there is a consensus that the field of robot entrepreneurship has only just begun, and that there is no chance of doing a single product. They all believe that if the mobile internet era is used as an app, there are opportunities for small and big companies to beat the time difference. In the era of artificial intelligence and robotics, big companies are rushing to the battlefield for the first time. The startup company does not have a few brushes. It doesn't play at all.
Within the industry, startups with a valuation of more than 1 billion yuan are usually ranked in the first tier. Now, the first-tier companies include companies such as ROOBO, Turing Robot, Horizon, and Rokid. All of them, without exception, have gathered the best R&D personnel. The ultimate goal is to become the robot's brain. However, each has its own style of play and routine. For ROOBO, the difference is that the founding team has enough enthusiasm for the products. They are more willing to abandon the high-level arguments and practices, so that AI technology becomes a constant solution to the actual problems and functional innovation of the product. Strong.
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