In January 2004, a year and a half after the appearance of smartphones on the Blue Hole Star, and a year after the introduction of smartphones in the East.

On a relatively quiet new front, a new product was successfully put into production.

January 1, New Year's Day. Ma Yiyi, CEO of Hanhe Technology, came to the front line and held a ribbon-cutting ceremony and press conference for the company's first automatic closed-loop flight control drone at the R&D headquarters of Hanhe Technology in Fangzhou City.

23-year-old Ma Yiyi, who has been married for two years, looks much more capable than when she was a student, and is like the most dazzling young beauty entrepreneur in the East, often appearing in international first-line financial magazines such as "Fortune" and "Forbes".

Today, she is wearing a pure black suit, a pure black heavy pleated skirt, black silk and black high heels, and her cold aura makes her authority and maturity far greater than usual.

Many technology media have come to interview the new product release of Hanhe Technology, and everyone's expectations are very high. Before the product was taken out, the camera first shot greedily at Ma Yiyi.

That's right, it's greed. After all, Ma Yiyi is such a superb beautiful female entrepreneur, and it is difficult to find a second one in one era and one country.

Although her business is barely hundreds of millions of dollars, her background and the company's technical content are enough to make her scarce and unique.

Ma Yiyi is obviously used to this kind of occasion, and after the spotlight fell, she began to direct the staff to show, while releasing eloquently:

"I'm glad that all media friends come to cheer, today, we are here, about to release the first UAV product of Hanhe Technology, which is a four-rotor, and can automatically adjust the flight attitude of the epoch-making product......"

The first UAV on Hanhe Technology is a four-rotor, with each set of independent power system servo motors to ensure accurate and automatic fine-tuning of power output.

In the history of the earth, Dae's early UAVs were basically single-rotor helicopter models, and they did not break away from the trap of traditional helicopters.

Single-rotor and quadrotor have no effect on the power output of flight, anyway, the weight of the drone, a motor to drive the rotor must be enough, the number of rotors is small, the power efficiency can be improved, and the redundant weight can also be reduced.

But the biggest advantage of the quadcopter is that once the automatic attitude flight control system is upgraded, it will fly more steadily. Even if the drone shakes or even stalls due to changes in wind and airflow in the external environment, it can be adjusted back by using the different output ratios of each rotor.

When a monorotor encounters unexpected air currents and sudden changes in wind, it is more difficult to control the attitude and requires a more experienced operator to control.

Obviously, the first generation of UAVs of Hanhe has reached the attitude flight control level of Dajiang on the earth in 09 years or even later, and when Hanhe Technology is developing UAVs, it is directly parallel to the accumulation of artificial intelligence autonomous driving technology in another business division.

On the earth, when Dajiang was engaged in drones in 06, Professor Jeff Hinton and his deep learning algorithms were still nameless, staying in the ivory tower of the laboratory, basically around the year, after Jeff Hinton was hired by Google, various applications of artificial intelligence penetrated into all corners of the industry like an overwhelming spread.

Therefore, it is entirely possible for Gu Wan and Ma Yiyi, in the case of grasping with both hands, to engage in drone hardware with one hand, and the basic theory and early application of deep learning artificial intelligence with the other hand, it is entirely possible that the two sides will advance to a critical point together, and then usher in the outbreak of the industry.

It's just that on Earth, the autonomous driving system is one of the n early applications of deep learning artificial intelligence, and the effect is relatively slow, so everyone is not surprised to see it.

On the Blue Hole Star, because the fields of machine vision and intelligent answering data screening have not yet been commercialized, but autonomous driving is the first to be commercialized, so in the eyes of the technology media, this is more sci-fi.

To take an inappropriate example, the media shock was almost as shocking as Google's Alpha Dog defeated Lee Sedol in 2016.

After all, this is to be reported as an inflection point in the "replacement of human work by intelligence".

Even if it's a bluff of exaggerated reporting.

Ma Yiyi was on the stage, and after making a simple descriptive release, he called on the media reporters to go to the test site outside for on-the-spot observation.

Hanhe's drone is very competitive in the air to draw various postures, extremely sensitive.

These alone are not enough to surprise media people, the key is to show the next few steps.

"Who are the friends who are willing to try the operation in person? As long as the simple operation explanation of our technical support staff, laymen can also try the operation of the drone in this venue. ”

"Can a layman drive it, aren't you afraid of falling?"

"So smart, isn't that the same as playing a game?"

Many reporters are in their hearts, and then because of their professional habits, they subconsciously speculate with the worst malice, thinking that the company has arranged childcare among the reporters.

"Hmph, I must have arranged a nursery who knows how to fly in advance, let's act. ”

Several reporters thought so, but in order to test their thoughts, those who thought this way usually raised their hands.

In this way, once they are not selected in the trial operation after a while, they can confidently further strengthen their ideas: Look, sure enough, childcare has been arranged!

However, a significant number of those who think this way quickly realize that they are wrong.

Because they were chosen.

"You, and you, count the sixth and eighth on the left side of the third row, you can try it. Let the technical support staff teach you a brief first. ”

"Huh?" Among the people who were called, there were also female reporters. Considering that women's hands-on ability is relatively poor, and female drivers are synonymous with some things, these girl reporters were suddenly confused.

"Didn't you arrange childcare? I didn't sign up to be a childcare, so it can't be a loophole in some link?"

After these people went up, they quickly put aside their distractions, just like the first time a girl learned a driver's license from a coach, her mentality was quite modest, and she mastered the basic operation in a few minutes.

Those who didn't have their turn, and those who doubted whether they had a trust, were watching from the sidelines, and they would have a chance in a while.

Soon, the drones controlled by the rookies took off one after another, and they all found that this thing was quite simple, basically a handle, and a receiver similar to a 3G signal return image. The instructions given to the drone are mainly purposeful, that is, how high to fly it, which coordinates, to the left or to the right.

Instead of the traditional remote-controlled model aircraft, you have to adjust the power output, attitude, and a lot of parameters by yourself.

In other words, as long as human beings know where to go and what their purpose is, as for how to do it and how to get there, it has nothing to do with human beings.

"It's as powerful as advertised. Remote-controlled model airplanes, remote-controlled model airplanes that can take aerial photographs, are not rare, and have appeared for decades and more than ten years respectively. However, only to give the destination information, how to fly can be achieved automatically, this is indeed a drone. ”

Some more senior and knowledgeable evaluation reporters have given such evaluations.

Then, more unexpected disturbances and temporary automated solutions, step by step, opened their eyes.

The first is the automatic avoidance of spoilers. This problem may not be common in ordinary times, because there are not too many drones in the sky, and the interference between them does not need to be considered by manufacturers so early.

But at this moment, there are more than a dozen UAVs flying at the same time in the test site, and there is still interference with the trajectory of each other's routes.

The UAVs of Hanhe have made appropriate evasion actions in advance, as long as the set command mode is "allow evasion".

Because drones occasionally have the need for "no evasion", such as ultra-close-range aerial photography when approaching, the drone is required to avoid when it is a few meters away from buildings or target objects, or even less than one meter, so everything depends on the setting.

"It's really possible to avoid it automatically, which is beyond everyone's expectations. ”

And the most shocking thing for everyone is still to come, which is the automatic attitude control of the spoiler.

After the on-site experiment of "Xiaobai can drive", the staff of Hanhe Science and Technology took the reporters to the laboratory of the wind blowing tunnel.

Of course, the wind force should not be too large, which is the wind force of the natural wind below level 8. Then the staff operated the equipment to control the turbulence in the wind tunnel with various changes in various directions, and demonstrated the automatic adjustment of the quadrotor output and inclination angle of the drone, and the control of its own flight attitude.

When this step was achieved, the media could only exclaim that the display had completely exceeded their expectations.

There are also many media outlets who said on the spot that they wanted to buy some for aerial photography.

The media who came to participate in the press conference were actually fooled into customers on the spot, even if the scale is not large and the purchase volume is not much, it is enough to pass on the good talk.

However, Hanhe Technology is still very tough, and it does not engage in the price drop of the trial test, at most, it only gives a little discount to the media friends who come to the scene, and provides additional follow-up warranty/technical support value-added services, but the money for selling the aircraft still has to be collected.

Who makes the only company on the Blue Hole Star that can make this level of equipment, if you want to do a good job, you must first sharpen your tools, and TV stations, websites, and newspapers also need this kind of sharp tools in order to enhance their competitiveness.

The next day, the press conference itself, along with the hot sales on the first day of release, appeared on the hot news of various technology editions, and the popularity was no different from Alpha Dog's victory over the top human chess player.

Subsequently, various industrial-grade applications and enthusiast dealers also came to the door.

Although these demands cannot be compared with the scale of the general consumer market, they are enough to make the signature technology content and goodwill of Hanhe Technology skyrocket to a new level.

According to the later statistical analysis of sales big data, in January 04 alone, domestic media people ordered out 15,000 aerial photography drones, and at the end of the first quarter, the total shipments exceeded 40,000 units.

In terms of overseas markets, there was basically no reaction in January and February, because there was a certain lag in overseas issuance and sales. However, since March, even the Oceanic countries can't help but start purchasing Hanhe aerial photography drones, and the total sales in the overseas market in a single month have reached 30,000 units, including some that have been taken out for overseas use after buying the Oriental National Bank.

Hanhe Technology easily occupies the global technological commanding heights in the field of automatic flight control UAVs.

This time, it's much more awesome than the service that provided GPS positioning solutions a year ago. After all, there are many competitors around the world that can provide the latter, but Hanhe has done a little better in miniaturization and some other aspects, but it is not an absolute advantage.

The field of aerial photography drones is the first absolutely leading field in which I have no enemies.

Countless capitals have been eyeing Gu Play and Ma Yiyi, breaking their thighs and secretly hating why Gu Play refused to receive equity financing and why he refused to accept venture capital.

There are such shameless people in the world, burning their own money to engage in science and technology, and eating alone!