Chapter 397: The Age of Intelligence

Mo Xie shrugged his shoulders and said, "It can only be a waste of time here, so come and finish this time!" ”

"You can be regarded as giving face, if you don't come, our dean can't do anything about you, I heard that your kid gave the school a billion? It's really rich! Zhao Xinhua stammered. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

"The school's technology has already brought me more than 10 billion profits!" Mo Xie said with a smile.

"Who are you fooling?" Zhao Xinhua looked at Mo Xiedao with a look like a fool.

Mo Xie glanced at him and said, "Don't believe it!" ”

This time he came to the capital, in addition to dealing with the affairs of the school and meeting his classmates, he was to sell the minerals in his hand.

In recent years, China has done a lot in aerospace, electronic engineering and other projects, so many rare elements can be used in China.

Of course, no matter what it is, there is no need for Mo Xie to sell it himself, the agency company he opened is not for fun, but for helping him, so he only needs to find an opportunity to put all the minerals in his hand into the warehouse, and someone will naturally deal with it when the time comes.

The most powerful thing about the agency is sales, so no matter how many types of minerals there are and how many quantities there are, Mo Xie will not worry about selling.

"Look over there, the robot races!" Just when Mo Ye was silent, Zhang Xiushui spoke up.

"The technology has improved so quickly, and I can actually do it to this extent!" Mo Ye was immediately attracted to attention, after all, a robot that can run and jump is also one of Mo Ye's goals.

Seeing the robot running like a fly, Mo Ye was amazed, and he felt that this kind of robot made by others was definitely worth learning from him.

And then, Mo Xie saw more robots, all kinds of robots, including football robots, dancing robots, combat robots, medical robots, and of course, more machine workers in various manufacturing industries.

Seeing so many robots, Mo Xie realized that he was not at the forefront of the times, and when he was working hard, others were not idle, maybe it was a place where the world was not paying attention, intelligent robots were replacing some of the functions of humans.

"Is this still a college idea contest?" Seeing the end, Mo Xie could only be amazed.

"And it's not because of you? It's because of your second world that so many smart projects will be attracted to settle in! Zhao Xinhua said.

What else can Mo Ye say? His company also has a lot of projects here, such as virtual cabins, such as autonomous driving, such as unmanned helicopters!

"Look over there, automatic sorting robots, I heard that major online merchants are using this kind of robot to sort and pack goods, how much labor does this have to replace?"

"And over there, do you see it, that drone can automatically deliver goods, so that the logistics company doesn't have to worry about the reduction of couriers!"

"That, yes, that's it, medical robots!"

"In the future, it will be the era of intelligence, and everything must be intelligent, I really don't know if it's good or bad!" In the end, Zhao Xinhua was a little sentimental.

Mo Xie was also silent, Zhao Xinhua said this, didn't he know?

In the robot manufacturing industry, Mo Ye searched for a lot of information in this area, such as the school's assembly enthusiast club, and he stole a set of automatic control systems from others.

Since then, Mo Ye has cast a net everywhere, and with the help of a large number of artificial intelligence, it is more convenient for Mo Ye to find robots produced by other companies, so now, no one is more familiar with the robot market than him, and no one knows the capabilities of robots better than him.

The era of intelligence is an unstoppable torrent of the times, but, as Zhao Xinhua said, I don't know whether it is good or bad, at least it is advancing too fast, which is not a good thing for a large number of workers.

Recently, foreign media reported that Foxconn has recently replaced 60,000 workers with robots.

Foxconn said in a recent statement that it is using robotics engineering and other innovative manufacturing techniques to replace repetitive tasks on production lines that were previously done by workers, while also allowing employees to focus on higher-value-added work in the manufacturing process, such as R&D, process control and quality control.

As early as 2011, Foxconn boss Terry Gou told the media that Hon Hai would bring in a million robots to replace workers, and Hon Hai employed about one million workers in Chinese mainland at the time.

Foxconn also expects robots to easily replace 5 million workers' jobs by 2020 if other companies can follow suit.

So, a lot of people are shouting: be careful, the robots are taking your job!

The reality is that in some areas, the replacement of humans by robots seems inevitable, which is a challenge for many.

In the movie Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Charlie's father originally worked in a toothpaste factory and was responsible for screwing the lid on a toothpaste bag filled with toothpaste.

However, it wasn't long before the toothpaste factory purchased a robot to screw the lid on the toothpaste in order to improve production efficiency.

Charlie's father lost his job, and the family's life was in dire straits.

The story in this old movie may be becoming a reality, and now many people's occupations have begun to be replaced by robots.

The first is Foxconn's assembly line workers, which have used robotics to reduce the number of employees at the Kun@Shan plant from 110,000 to 50,000.

Foxconn wants robots to replace humans to complete simple and repetitive tasks on the assembly line.

Foxconn's assembly line workshop has always attracted attention for its boring and repetitive working environment, and Foxconn was once labeled a "sweatshop" because of the criticism of its workers' living conditions.

From this perspective, the plan to replace workers with robots will improve the quality of life of workers, and will also alleviate the cyclical labor shortage faced by Hon Hai, reduce labor disputes, and allow Foxconn workers to get rid of endless overtime and simple mechanical labor.

This is of great significance for improving the living conditions of Foxconn's workers and the public image of Foxconn, but what about those workers?

Without labor-intensive enterprises, what would so many industrial workers do?

Of course, for a labor-intensive industry like Foxconn, using robots may even be more "cost-effective" than human employees.

Taking the industrial manufacturing robot "Sawyer" launched by Rethink Robotics as an example, according to the design life of "Sawyer" for 30,000 working hours and the price of 29,000 US dollars (about 180,000 yuan), "hiring" a Sawyer robot that works around the clock only requires a salary of less than 4,500 yuan per month.

Some time ago, a short video introducing Amazon's warehouse management technology caused a sensation on the Internet, in which the work of human porters and pickers was replaced by a "cute" orange robot.

These robots, called "Kiva", were acquired by Amazon in 2012 for $775 million in the robotics project of the automated logistics provider Kiva.

With 15,000 Kiva bots in operation in Amazon's fulfillment centers across the U.S., the system using Kiva is able to increase inventory handling capacity by nearly 50 percent compared to the previous one.

A system consisting of a Kiva robot and a Robo-Stow robotic arm can unload and receive a trailer of goods in less than 30 minutes, increasing the efficiency of sorting several times.

Like Foxconn, Amazon has also been criticized for its poor working environment, however, the application of the "Kiva" robot has successfully silenced critics.

The requirements for the working environment of robots are far less picky than those of humans, and Amazon only needs to set up public facilities where human employees work.

The area where the robot works can not even be turned on and the room temperature does not need to be controlled.

The existence of these hard-working "employees" is the secret of Amazon's ability to deliver a large number of goods during the Christmas season.

To help humans work, robots are naturally good assistants to humans, but in many cases, the relationship between humans and robots is not just as simple as replacing and being replaced.

Today, robots are still playing the role of good assistants of human beings, think about the robot butler Justin in "Iron Man", do many people also want such an "empathetic" little helper?

Robots are helpers, but they are the helpers of capitalists, and with hard-working robots, what are a large number of workers going to do? They can only have a career!

Of course, this is because the social productive forces have not yet developed to a certain extent, and if it really reaches a communist society, then human beings will not work if they do not work, because social resources are evenly distributed.

But, is it possible now? Obviously, no, however, the development of robots is also a must, and there are advantages to using robots, such as careers that have already begun to "work" with robot colleagues!

First of all, soldiers, soldiers on the battlefield have always been one of the most dangerous professions in human society, in the movie "Bomb Disposal Unit", the cruelty of war strongly shocks the hearts of every viewer, where every local is like a potential enemy, and every target is like a bomb in disguise.

How to use robots to replace professional soldiers to perform dangerous tasks has always been an important project for the military of various countries.

In the film, the robot used by the bomb disposal unit was designed and manufactured by the American arms giant Northrop Grumman.

This robot can help the team members complete reconnaissance, explosive disposal work, and if necessary, they can sacrifice themselves to detonate bombs to clear the obstacles for the advance of the troops.

A small number of models are also equipped with machine guns, which can perform alert missions and even carry out clearance operations against specific targets.

However, the popularity of robots in warfare is not always a good thing, and many media outlets have expressed concern about robots' involvement in warfare.