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Text Chapter 147 The Price of Construction Robots

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    The news that Arrow Automobile Company was going to hold a robot quota auction after lunch was indeed a bit surprising. After all, no news had been released before, and no one was prepared. It was a bit like a surprise attack.  Generally, investment fairs or auctions like this are rarely conducted without notifying others in advance, because if you do not notify others in advance and let others prepare, it will not be a good thing for anyone, at least, for the product seller.  It is said that if the buyer does not make more preparations, it will be difficult to maximize profits.  Of course, a sudden attack also has the advantage of a sudden attack, that is, people cannot think too much. If the product is unique, it is easy to have irrational behavior at the auction. It is not difficult to raise the price, but that generally refers to the art of art.  In the market where it is difficult to identify the actual value, rather than the mechanical equipment market - yes, most people still define intelligent robots as high-end mechanical equipment.  Moreover, things like intelligent robots that can almost change the industrial structure are no less important and sensitive than the sales of high-end weapons and arms. Usually, such things cannot be bought just by spending money. They usually need to be brought with them.  There are some political implications, even in this post-Cold War era.  Now, Arrow Automobile Company conducts the business like an auction of art, obviously the highest bidder wins, and in all likelihood, political factors are not taken into account.  After thinking about this, most people at the scene were secretly happy. Only a very small number of people, such as representatives of Western powers such as the United States and the United Kingdom, were worried.  Representatives of these major countries are not worried that they cannot pay or buy quotas, but are worried about the proliferation of such high-end robots, which will bring about a series of uncontrollable changes in the situation.  To put it bluntly, these construction robots are said to only do construction, but with a slight change they can turn into a robot army. Even if they don¡¯t change, they can serve as engineering soldiers on the battlefield.  That is also quite sharp. No engineering soldier from any country in the world can do better than these robots.  Of course, the one who is most worried is the United States. The United States is the only superpower in the world and leads the world in all aspects. However, the emergence of this kind of robot technology, no, it should be the strong rise of the Ostein Group, but it makes them see  It's a crisis.     to be honest.  If it weren¡¯t for the rapid rise of the Osten Group, if it weren¡¯t for the times that had changed, if it weren¡¯t for the Nordic countries and other countries that were still allies with the United States, if it wasn¡¯t for In short, it was precisely because there were too many ifs that the United States did not dare to be like the United States.  Like other small countries, they criticize Sweden, the big owner of the Osten Group, and instead try their best to provide benefits to Sweden.  I just hope we can work together instead of engaging in confrontation.  But no matter who was happy or unhappy, the auction was decided to be held an hour after lunch.  Although the time is tight, there is still a buffer of more than an hour.  Therefore, everyone who got the news immediately began to make busy calls and contact their superiors, mostly asking where the bottom line was, or asking for more authorization.  Of course, some people also asked people from Arrow Automobile Company to get more details about the auction.  For example, how the quota is calculated, whether the quota can be purchased unlimitedly, or each household can only buy one quota, etc. The atmosphere is very urgent.  I'm afraid no one would have thought that this auction was just Cheng Yuan's impromptu idea.  "You are carrying out a surprise attack." Wu Hongfei, who had just finished the phone call with him, sighed, "Mr. Cheng, this is unethical." "A surprise attack is good, but it is more advantageous for you, isn't it?  "Huh?" Cheng Yuan smiled, "You are the first to know the news, and this is also the territory of China. As long as you are not too stingy, you will definitely gain something." Hearing what Cheng Yuan said, Wu Hongfei couldn't help it.  Whatever you say, after all, what the other party said is right.  After all, he is a bureaucrat with a technical background, and he still has some reserve. Stalking, being arrogant and unreasonable is not his style.  Just like that, an hour later, the intelligent robot quota auction began as scheduled in the central multi-functional hall of the company's administrative building, where the smart bus conference was once held.  Since I have experience in holding smart bus conferences before, and the central venue is very intelligent, just like Transformers, it can change at any time according to the situation. Therefore, although this auction is very hasty, it can be considered well-organized.  .  When everyone entered the venue in order and all the pre-arranged seats in the venue were filled, Liang Hua appeared in the direction of the auction table. It was obvious that he planned to go straight to the topic and not perform any pre-meeting song and dance performances.  Something.  After clearing his throat, Liang Hua put his hands on the podium, smiled and said to the audience: "Everyone's time is precious, so I won't talk nonsense. Well, I believe you all have read it before.  The performance of our batch of construction robots is definitely a product of the pioneering era.I don¡¯t need to say much about her beauty, everyone can see it clearly.  " After a pause, Liang Hua then continued: "Robotics technology has been around for many years. The reason why it has not had much performance and has never truly replaced human labor, such as in the construction field, is because there are several key technologies that have not been solved.  These key technologies are the intelligent control system and the energy power system. In comparison, the body skeleton and surface skin are all trivial details.  At the same time, compared with these technical indicators, there is another important condition for popularizing robots, and that is price.  If this robot is too expensive to build, it will only be a laboratory product and cannot enter large-scale industrial production, and it will not be popularized.  We are honored that the owner of this product, the Osten Group, has solved the two biggest technical problems and developed a smaller and stronger operating control system and a new smaller and stronger battery.  and powertrain.  While solving technical problems, they are also very good at cost control. With their production capacity, they can produce this kind of robot, which is mainly made of steel skeleton, at a very low cost. In this way, this kind of more powerful robot  Smarter and more capable robots can be brought to the market like mobile phones and home appliances, and intelligent machines that can make humans save more effort can truly be popularized.  " "Can you tell me how much these robots cost?  "An impatient middle-aged woman in the audience immediately said loudly, "This is the issue we are most concerned about!  " "That's exactly what I'm going to say next.  Liang Hua smiled at the middle-aged woman in the audience, "I actually don't know how much this kind of robot can be sold for, because this is a topic that we will all discuss together later."  I can only tell you what the base price of this robot is.  " After saying that, Liang Hua took out his mobile phone and clicked on the screen of the mobile phone, and then. Behind Liang Hua, a large white curtain fell from top to bottom. Then, several rays of light hit the curtain, and it began to look like a movie screen.  , a huge screen like a chart appeared. ¡°Everyone, look at the big screen.  "Liang Hua half-turned around and pointed at the big screen behind him, "The table above is the base price of all types of construction robots.  " When the people in the audience heard this, they immediately began to read the table on the screen carefully. After reading this, they immediately took a deep breath! This price is too low! The tables on the big screen read: Titan 1  Robot - 60,000 euros; Titan 2 - 45,000 euros; Diver 1 - 120,000 euros; Diver 2 - 85,000 euros; Multipurpose humanoid robot - 15,000 euros; Medium spider robot - 10,000  Euro; mosquito robot - 5,000 euros. It can be said that, except for the small spider robot, these steel robots are basically large, medium and small. Of course, the most important thing is that the price is lower than everyone's expectations.  Not to mention anything else, just talking about the Titan 1 robot that looks like a heavy tank, the base price is only 60,000 euros. At the current exchange rate, it is less than 500,000 yuan. It is more than this to buy a slightly better car.  Even many domestic excavators have this price, but the capabilities of the excavator are far inferior to that of the Titan robot. It can be said that the Titan 1 can do everything.  Better, what the excavator can't do. Titan 1 can also do it. Moreover, Titan 1 is an intelligent robot with independent judgment ability and can adapt to the actual situation to a certain extent. Its accuracy is better than that of humans.  It requires people to operate it, which can save high labor costs. In this way, the money saved will be even greater. There is also the drill rat, which is mainly used for digging tunnels and performing tunnel operations, and the shield machine.  It is somewhat similar, or it is simply an intelligent shield machine. But how much does a shield machine cost? It costs tens of millions, and this kind of shield machine has better performance and is more intelligent.  The Gopher only costs 120,000 euros, which is only over 980,000 RMB, less than 1 million! There are also humanoid robots that are closer to humans. This kind of robot with extended arms can do most things that humans can do.  The work can be done more accurately and efficiently, without eating, drinking, and being able to work around the clock. If nothing else, just looking at the construction situation ahead, the work efficiency of a humanoid robot can be regarded as high.  For twenty construction workers! In other words, the work efficiency of a humanoid robot is twenty times that of a human construction worker! However, how much does it cost to raise twenty construction workers? Even in China, it is definitely more than one.  Fifteen thousand euros! Ten times more! What's more, if a construction worker is involved in an accident, such as death or injury, the compensation will be astronomical. Fifteen thousand euros is probably not enough to compensate even one person, let alone two.  There are ten people, and once the robot is damaged, the best it can do is send it for repair or replace it with another one.Yes, there are no moral constraints or other troubles.  It can be said that not being afraid of accidents is what Western countries, especially Europe, value most. You must know that most European countries are high-welfare countries, and their workers are also high-welfare workers. Many of their construction activities, in the end,  They are afraid of accidents involving personnel, because once an accident occurs, the entire project may have to stop, and the contractor will most likely lose money.  Now that there are robot construction workers, especially the price is so cheap, everyone, especially the representatives of the European construction industry, are overjoyed!  Not to mention other spider robots and mosquito robots. These robots can do a lot of work that ordinary human construction workers cannot do. Especially in terms of detail processing, they are absolutely the best decorators, and decorators are precisely the most expensive ones.  One of the workers.  In the past, when construction robots first appeared and showed amazing construction capabilities, everyone noticed them, but few companies had any real intention to purchase them, not for anything else but because of the construction capabilities at that time.  Robots are all made of carbon nanomaterials that are as valuable as gold.  If you use these things to work as construction workers, they are too expensive.  You must know that construction workers are a relatively dangerous type of work. For robots, it is easy to cause losses. If the carbon nanomaterials are lost and repaired, the price will be too high. Therefore, in the commercial field  , some gain outweighs the loss.     but.  Now that these steel-skeleton construction robots have appeared, especially after seeing the price so low, everyone was immediately tempted.  As Liang Hua said before, just solving technical problems is not enough. Only by solving technical problems and cost problems can this product be truly launched on the market.  But everyone also understands that what they are talking about is the benchmark price, which is something like the ex-factory price or wholesale price, not the final selling price sold to them.  But no matter what, the base price is so low, and there is a limit to how much it can rise.  After thinking of this, some thoughtful people began to look at each other.  Because they understand that once such cost-effective intelligent robots are really introduced to the market, big changes will occur in many areas of human society in the future, just like the Internet has changed the world.  This change.  While it brings opportunities to many people, it will definitely bring losses to many people, but no matter what.  Now that it has appeared, it can no longer be stopped. What everyone needs to consider is how to seize this opportunity so that they will not be left behind.  Liang Hua was very clear about the capabilities of these robots and the impact of ultra-low prices. Therefore, after opening the large price list screen, she went to the side to sit down, drink some water, and take a few shots.  After making a phone call and waiting for the people below to discuss privately with each other for five minutes, Liang Hua walked back to the stage, knocked on the microphone, and coughed lightly, finally attracting everyone's attention again. It turned out that  The buzzing sound also gradually disappeared.  "I think everyone understands that this is just a benchmark price, that is to say, it is our benchmark price for external sales, but it is not the final market price. In other words, this is our external wholesale price. As for the market retail price,  The winning bidder will decide it himself. In other words, we are holding this auction to auction twelve export quotas, or to auction twelve retailer agency rights. " At this point, Liang Hua paused.  , giving the following a buffer time, and then continued: "The reason why we only give agency rights to twelve retailers is because some of the key technologies of these robots can currently only be manufactured at the Swedish headquarters, so the output is limited and the output is limited.  Due to various considerations, we decided to come up with twelve export quotas, and I hope you will understand. " "Then why doesn't Osten Group announce this quota directly in Sweden, that is, why does it have to announce it through you?  "One of the middle-aged white men in his forties asked.  "That's a good question." Liang Hua smiled and nodded at the white man, "The reason why we are announcing it is because we have obtained the general agency rights for this kind of construction robot. In other words, Osten Group, and the Group  A subsidiary company that specializes in manufacturing these robots has given us the global sales rights for this set of construction robots. Therefore, we have the final say on how to sell these robots and to whom. I don¡¯t know. Are you satisfied with this answer?  "What?" "This" the white man frowned, "Why has the Ostein Group never announced this before? Why did you make such a hasty decision on such a big matter? Sorry, I didn't mean your Arrow Automobile Company?"  Not qualified, I just said that this kind of general agency matter should at least be held through an open bidding meeting like now. " "Sorry, Austen Group is not a listed company, it is a private company, so the group does it.  The decision does not need to be explained to the public. "This is simply" That Bai.The man opened his mouth, but in the end he stopped talking, because the facts were already in front of him. If he continued to be serious, he would really hate Liang Hua and the Arrow Automobile Company, and he might lose his qualification as a retailer.  .  After all, they are right, they don¡¯t need to answer to anyone when making decisions, and their products are unique.  This is not to say that others cannot produce similar robots. After all, laboratories in many countries can also produce robots with similar functions. But in terms of cost performance, there is a huge difference. At the very least, those produced by scientific research institutions in various countries  Intelligent robots can never be so cheap, and it is difficult to put them into practical use in large quantities like those robots.  "Sir." Liang Hua looked at the white man and said, "Do you have any other questions?" "Oh, no." The man immediately smiled and shook his head.  It's a small gesture of goodwill.  "What about the others?" Liang Hua looked at the audience again, "Does anyone else have any questions?" "We have no problem!" The person who spoke was the middle-aged woman who seemed to be impatient before, and she said quickly, "You  Let¡¯s talk about how to bid for this retailer quota in detail. ¡°Okay.¡± Liang Hua smiled and nodded, ¡°There are a total of twelve export quotas, which are retailer qualifications. Each contract is a one-year contract.  , you can get robots with a total value of 50 billion US dollars. That is to say, once you win a contract, you can buy construction robots with a total price of no more than 50 billion US dollars. As for the type of robot you buy, it does not matter.  The restrictions, that is to say, how to choose and match them is your own business. ""The total value does not exceed 50 billion US dollars, does it mean based on your base price?" the middle-aged woman asked again.  "Yes." Liang Hua nodded, "I have already said that the price on the big screen is our external wholesale price, that is, the purchase price of retailers with purchase rights contracts. As for the market price on the market, then  It's up to the market. "It's only for one year. Does that mean the purchase contract has to be renewed every year?" the woman asked again.  "That's right." "What's the contract price? What's the one-year contract price?" "The starting price of each contract is 10 billion U.S. dollars. There is no upper limit. The highest bidder wins." Hearing this price, everyone at the scene  They all took a deep breath.  "Ten billion U.S. dollars? Just a one-year purchase right? Isn't this outrageous? It's clearly a money grab!" the middle-aged woman said angrily.  "If you add this, the price of your robot will not be cheap at all." "If you feel it is not suitable, you don't have to buy it." Liang Hua said with a smile.  "No one is forcing you to buy. By the way, this is the final price, and no counter-offers are allowed. In fact, to put it bluntly, we set the price of this purchase right just to see if you have the strength, and it is only for one year. We will follow up later.  "Then, can we buy a lot of this ten billion dollar one-year contract at once?" The middle-aged woman asked again, "For example, if we have the ability, can we buy it all at once?"  "Buy all twelve agency rights?" "Of course that's not possible." Liang Hua smiled, "If that's the case, then we can just package it and sell it, and there's no need to go to the trouble of dividing it into twelve purchase rights."  , the reason why we divide the agency rights into twelve is based on the region. In other words, we divide it into twelve regions based on the existing world structure, such as East Asia, South Asia, Central Asia, and North Asia.  Regions, as well as Eastern Europe, Western Europe, Southern Europe, North America, Central and South America, South America, etc. In each region, only one quota is given. Only countries in this region can compete with each other for this quota. There are two in each region.  Quotas are not allowed. Let¡¯s put it this way, in theory, each country is only allowed one quota. ¡°Including your country?¡± the middle-aged woman asked immediately.  "Yes, including the Chinese government." Liang Hua nodded with a smile, "but not our company. The number of robots used by our company is not limited, and similarly, the Ostein Group itself is not limited." "Then if you  After selling the agency rights, what happens if you sell it to others privately? "The middle-aged woman continued, "If you do this, won't the market be in chaos? Even if you are the boss, you can't act like this." "  Please rest assured about this." Liang Hua said with a smile, "Robots that can be bought and sold freely in the market can only be sold out of the hands of retailers. As for the unplanned robots used by our company and the Austen Group, they can only be used by ourselves, or  It is for use by specific relevant organizations and cannot be sold to outsiders. As for how to supervise it, each robot has a unique number and unique code, just like a human fingerprint, there is absolutely no mistake if you find it wrong.?When the robots in the quota begin to go on sale, you can report them at any time. Once we find out, we can paralyze the unplanned robots at any time. Therefore, even if someone steals our unplanned robots, they cannot be sold to outsiders.  "(To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novels will be better and updated faster!
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