At noon, Capital International Airport.

Zhao Yi's flight arrived on time, he got off the plane and walked out of the airport with the flow of people, and saw a sign that said 'Welcome, Zhao Yi'.

The person who came to pick up was a young man with glasses, his name was Xu Lei, who looked less than thirty years old, and he was a bit of a scholar, and he knew that he was still a doctoral student when he was introduced.

"I just came from Xiamen and work in the intelligence and automation lab at the school. ”

"Today is a day off, Professor Luo asked me to pick you up. ”

"Zhao Yi, your 'screening method' is really powerful, I studied the paper carefully, and some places I can't understand at all, are you really a high school student?"

Xu Lei closed the car door and said with a wry smile, "After reading your paper, I feel that the books have been read in vain." ”

Zhao Yi smiled.

Along the way, Xu Lei was talking about the screening method and asked a few related questions.

Zhao Yi explained in a general way, for fear that Xu Lei would think too deeply and lead to traffic safety problems, so he hurriedly guided the topic to Xu Lei's work.

Xu Lei talked about the intelligent and automated laboratory.

The Intelligence and Automation Laboratory of Yanhua University is a merger of the Machine Perception Laboratory of the University and the Internet of Things Engineering Laboratory of Xiamen.

Intelligence and Automation Laboratory, mainly researching machine perception, intelligent GIF resolution and other fields.

"Our latest research is computer feature recognition and color recognition, and this project is also very high-end in China. Xu Lei was worried that Zhao Yi didn't understand, and he gave a very clear explanation.

Zhao Yi listened with interest.

Computer's feature recognition and color recognition may not sound like a big deal, but the actual difficulty is very high.

For example, color recognition.

Regardless of the moving image illuminated by the camera, it is also very complicated to recognize the color of the fixed picture.

It's completely different from a computer 'drawing'.

The computer's 'drawing' is to follow the instructions, call the relevant color code from the inside, and react to the screen, and the color recognition first needs to be entered.

The complexity of the color of a captured image as an input is more difficult than recognizing the text in the image.

This brings us to computer graphics.

Graphics is a major branch of computers, which is very important to the development of computers, and robot intelligence requires 'dynamic image input', and graphics is an important field that cannot be avoided.

It's like a human eye, the eye can tell what it sees, and if you lose your eyes, you just rely on your sense of touch, hearing, etc., and your life will definitely be greatly affected.

The two talked all the way.

Xu Lei took Zhao Yi to a hotel near Yanhua University, and after checking in, he left a phone number for Zhao Yi and asked him to call if he had anything to do.

Zhao Yi took a taxi to the first destination: Zhouyu Interactive Technology Co., Ltd.

Zhouyu Interactive Technology is located in the science and technology park in the north of the capital, about ten kilometers away from Yanhua University, the distance is not far and not close, fortunately, the traffic in the capital is not like more than ten years later, and the non-commuting time is still smooth.

Zhao Yi called Zhang Zhen in advance, but when he arrived downstairs in the company, he didn't see Zhang Zhen, so he simply walked directly to the front desk.

The little sister at the front desk was very cute, and she found that Zhao Yi was very young, so she asked with a smile, "Hello, this is Zhouyu Interactive Technology...... Are you here to apply?" she said, looking at the form in her hand, "The interview for the technical department is scheduled for tomorrow. ”

"It doesn't matter. Zhao Yi looked at the little sister at the front desk, approached and asked with a smile, "I want to ask if your company is recruiting for other positions?"

"What position?"

Zhao Yi asked seriously, "The admirer of the beauty at the front desk, is it recruiting?"

"You man!"

The little girl at the front desk blushed and laughed, and looked Zhao Yi up and down carefully.

[Flirting girl, target: Wang Qian, learning coin +1. 】

"Zhao Yi!"

There was a shout from the side.

A middle-aged man with a beard walked over briskly from afar, shook hands with Zhao Yi warmly and said, "Welcome! Welcome! It's so welcome! I'm really sorry, it's late, I have something to deal with just now." ”

It was Zhang Zhen.

Wang Qian asked suspiciously, "Manager Zhang, is he?"

"Distinguished guest! This is a distinguished guest! The designer of the Rubik's Cube calculator, a genius high school student, his thesis ......" Zhang Zhen put a bunch of titles on Zhao Yi in a row, and then enthusiastically pulled Zhao Yi inside.

Zhao Yi turned his head as he walked and raised eyebrows at Wang Qian.

Wang Qian covered her face with a smile.

[Flirting girl, target: Wang Qian, learning coin +2. 】

"Is that okay?"

"Just now it was a learning coin, now it's two...... It seems that status is also helpful for flirting with girls. ”

Zhao Yi summed up and followed Zhang Zhen into the reception room.

He sat for a while.

Zhang Zhen has been busy coming and going, as if he couldn't stop at all, and heard a few angry scoldings from a distance, and then simply changed the technician and made a cup of coffee for Zhao Yi.

More than an hour later, Zhao Yi saw Zhang Zhen again.

There is also a very short-haired young man, who is very young, and he looks like he is in his early twenties and has just graduated from college.

Zhang Zhenlian said a few words of apology before he introduced, "This is Yuan Zhongchen, the best young man in the technical department. ”

Zhao Yi suddenly glanced up.

At such a young age, Zhang Zhen can be evaluated as 'the best in the technical department', and his personal technical ability must be very outstanding.

The two shook hands.

Zhang Zhen sat down breathlessly and talked about what happened just now, "I'm really sorry, something big happened to the company in the past two days, and the management decided to cut the robot operating system project." ”

"Why?"

"Funding issues. ”

Zhang Zhen said carefully.

At the beginning, the company planned to invest in the development of a complete robot operating system, but once it reached the formal research and development stage, it was found that it was a 'bottomless pit' that could not see the results.

The operating system is not so easy to design, but a simple operating system for robots, the research and development time has to last for several years, just to enrich the algorithm library, have spent millions of dollars, and a large number of technical personnel have been invested.

This investment is not always rewarding.

Even if the robot operating system is successfully developed, the next step is still to design related smart products.

That's the contradiction.

Skipping the robot operating system, you can also develop the corresponding product, but the coding, maintenance, etc. are a little more complicated, but compared to the development of an operating system, it is much easier, and the direct development of products also has returns, and it is easy to attract investment with products.

Wait a minute.

Considering a series of factors, the high-level meeting made a decision to terminate the development of the robot operating system.

This makes some people unhappy.

Zhang Zhen supports the development of a robot operating system, he is also the manager of the technical department, Yuan Zhongchen is also one of the supporters, and there are some people in the technical department who are very dissatisfied with the decision, and even threaten to 'resign'.

After two days of arguing, the company decided to let them go on their own.

Zhao Yi listened to it for a long time and summed it up, "In other words, now you are not in Zhouyu?"

"I'm still here. ”

Zhang Zhen said, "I'm a manager, and I can't just resign. Some people in the company also support the R&D system, after all, they have invested so much, and the final decision is to form a team independently, and the company is a cooperative relationship, which can use the company's internal information and R&D results, but must be invested by themselves. ”

He pointed at Yuan Zhongchen and said, "Zhongchen is the leader of the Yutu Robotics team. ”

"Yutu Robot?"

Zhao Yi frowned when he heard this.

Yuan Zhongchen smiled a little embarrassedly, "I have obtained the name, the universe, the grand plan, it means that we will definitely succeed!"

Zhao Yi wasn't thinking about this, but linked 'Yutu' and 'Yuan Zhongchen', and the memories in his mind suddenly poured out.

Yutu Robot!

Yuan Zhongchen!

Isn't this the team and founders who sold the robot operating system to the whole country and the world?

Star Team!

Celebrities!

Zhao Yi suppressed the surprise in his heart, and followed Zhang Zhen to the leftmost room.

It became the office of the Utu Robotics team.

The decision-making level of Zhouyu Interactive is not a fool, they cannot completely expel the robot team, the team members are very capable, the decision-making level just decided not to increase investment, but the robot team can still use the company's resources, and Zhouyu Interactive also occupies a certain share of the team.

It's pure partnership.

Now the Yutu robot team has just been formed, and there are only a pitiful five personnel, including the person in charge Yuan Zhongchen, Zhang Zhen continues to be in the technical department of Zhouyu, and can only be regarded as half a member at most.

Zhao Yi entered the room.

Zhang Zhen took the initiative to talk about the problem of the robot operating system.

"Do you think the development of a robot operating system can pay off?" As soon as Zhang Zhen spoke, everyone else looked over.

They are also at a loss.

If the company invests in R&D together, it doesn't matter if there is a return or not, they just take the salary to work.

Now it's different.

They made up their minds to go independent and set up a studio to cooperate with the company, if they couldn't get investment, they wouldn't even have a salary, and if there was no return in the future, everything would be in vain.

Everyone in the office, including Yuan Zhongchen, was in a state of uncertainty.

"Of course it pays off. ”

Zhao Yi said very surely, "The underlying operating system is the most important, just like Microsoft, developing the operating system, the future return model, the most important thing is to sell the operating system and provide technical support!"

"The future will be an era of intelligence, including education, medical care, social networking, services, etc., there will be a demand for intelligence. Think about it, what kind of prospects would it be if the intelligent system in every field used the operating system that you developed?"

The eyes of the people lit up.

Zhang Zhen immediately applauded vigorously, and said, "That's great." The others also applauded.

The applause stopped.

Zhang Zhen leaned over and asked with a smile, "Zhao Yi, are you so optimistic about the robot operating system, are you interested...... Don't worry, we won't let you suffer, as long as you invest two million, we will give you ......"

He looked at Yuan Zhongchen, Yuan Zhongchen gritted his teeth and said, "Twenty percent shares!"

Zhao Yi's mouth opened wide when he heard this, he was really shocked.

And also...... This kind of good thing?