In the next few days, the TV broadcasts were all about the alien robots. Many soldiers who participated in the war gave speeches, some regular guests took the opportunity to canvass tickets, and some weapons sellers started to promote the protection of their families by armed forces.

It has been almost a month before the popularity subsided, and it was suppressed by the news of a company called USR.

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

Many people say that the company's products are more gimmicky than practical, and the price is not cheap. 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 available soon, and the price will be much lower than everyone expected.

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

Fan Mang looked at the commercial on TV. The shape of this robot was very similar to that of a human being, with human facial features, torso, and limbs.

The appearance can be customized, if the top-level materials are used, it will look like a real person.

USR company, robot, Fan Mang always felt a little familiar.

"Raptor, search for information about robots. Are there any domestic robots with so many functions before?"

"No. The performance of this robot is the most powerful among the known domestic robots. The programming method and mechanical materials used make me feel a little familiar."

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

Shouldn't those information be top secrets of the military? How did the private company get it? Or, is this actually a company secretly controlled by the military?

"USR's new robot, we ordered one."

"Don't worry, I have already searched, and they have only begun to accept reservations. It may take a few months to actually build it." Raptor held a large barrel in his hand, which contained a barrel of diesel oil. He raised his head and drank it like a drink. " Master, can I buy gasoline next time, I prefer that smell."

"No problem, if you have money, you can get 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 sat on the sofa with a cup of coffee in his hand.

"Lawrence, I didn't expect you to develop a new type of intelligent robot so quickly. How many are expected to be sold and how much can we earn?"

The seventh district is gone, and he is no longer a secret staff member of the political axe, and has become a complete white man. However, coming out of the secret department, he was well prepared, and now he has transformed himself into an investor on the Chicago side.

He invested in the USR company with capital and technology, because the company was already researching intelligent robots, and he also invited Professor Langning, an expert in robotics research.

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

Now it has only taken one month, their theoretical research and development has been successful, and a prototype has been made, and they have begun to publicize and accept orders.

According to what everyone discussed before, a robot will not earn much, and the profit rate is about 30%, which is already a very high profit.

"Simons, don't worry, in the first generation, we can't make money. Maybe even in the second generation, we can't make any money."

Simmons sat up straight: "What do you mean?"

Why, do you think that I have less money invested and do not want to share it with me? The core technology is provided by me. Without me, can you make such an intelligent robot?

"Simons, 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 we'll be able to make $10 billion from our first batch of products, do you? We have very little publicity now, only three TV stations. We only have online and phone orders, no brick-and-mortar stores. , No distributors, no agents, how many do you think you can sell?"

"And at present we only have the market in the United States, and we will expand to overseas markets in the next step. At least the English-speaking market is no problem. How much does it cost to invest?"

"We earn 1,000 US dollars for a robot. To earn 10 billion, we also need to sell 10 million units. This does not include after-sales, personnel compensation, research and development expenses, advertising expenses, transportation expenses, etc., in fact Our net profit is nowhere near that high."

"Then why don't we sell it more expensive?" Simmons spread his hands, "Our products are expensive, and people are willing to buy them. We target middle-class and above families with houses and cars, and use this to replace housekeepers and babysitters. , gardeners and other staff, even if it is sold for 10,000 US dollars, it is not expensive, right?"

"No, Simmons, how many middle-class families can have? Ten million units, then 10 million families. Do you think our products can guarantee that every middle-class family will buy one? Our products, how long do they have? Will it be eliminated once? We have to open it to all families so that ordinary families can afford it.”

"Do the math, if 1% of households in the world buy our products, then there will be more than 10 million units sold."

"Our first goal is to get 2% of the households to buy it. How much has it increased the difficulty of selling 10 million units, excluding non-native English-speaking households?"

"We are in the United States, and the first step is to ensure that 10 percent of the households buy it. In fact, that's how many, just a few million. It's not a car, and for many families, it's not a necessity."

"We will continue to increase R&D and publicity while selling. We will sell a part first, which will be used for our continued procurement of materials for production, personnel compensation and advertising, and then increase our user base on NS4 products."

"When the NS5 model is launched, we will be able to let domestic robots enter thousands of households and truly replace other robots with different functions."

"Our previous best product was the anthropomorphic household robot NS2. We have a list of many customers and will target sales. Even the first step, we are ready to trade in old ones. Let those people replace us with sweeping robots and some money. The new home 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 take 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 haven't paid a cent of dividends. I'm afraid there won't be any in the first half of next year, and there may not be 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 exceed 100 billion or even trillion.

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

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

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

If he finds out that Lawrence is tricking 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 flicked twice: "Hahaha, Simmons, our core technology was developed based on your data, and you are also a shareholder and director of the company. Is there anything you can hide from you? After two years at most , you can buy a big villa, buy a plane yacht, and even buy a small island and build it yourself."

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

You Simmons are very good, but you have already left there. After two years, how many obedient subordinates will 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 egg!

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

Fan Mang looked at the manual and saw that there were quite a few functions on it, and he didn't know if it was really easy to use. The bird of prey next to him was scanning the home robot. His eyes were slightly disappointed, and no life fluctuations were detected.

After giving some simple commands, Fan Mang felt that this was okay, the degree of intelligence was not too high, but he could complete some specific commands.

For example, you can sweep the floor, wipe the windows, carry dishes, weed the lawn, clean the swimming pool, and know that you can charge yourself, will not leave the yard, know that a stranger has illegally entered the police, and so on.

Compared with traditional sweeping robots, it is much stronger, but it can only do these things.

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

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

"Master, it is a little bit similar to me, the material is similar, and the coding 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. Here's a snack for you." Fan Mang shook a bag of batteries in his left hand.

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