Wang Ye (Reading): From Asimov to Ninebot
Editor's note: Wang Ye took his son's English name Daneel, which is Asimov's robot. There is no doubt that Wang Ye is obsessed with this role and is obsessed with the future of a robot that coexists with us.
Oral | Wang Ye
Interviewing and organizing | Liu Ye
(Ninebot co-founder Wang Ye)
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For the first time, I saw Asimov in junior high school. There are 12 long articles and ten million words. The whole is a main line—the process by which people walk toward the universe. Later in his book I have seen many times. It may also be that from that time on, I think computers and artificial intelligence are very interesting and cool things.
Before going to university, I was less likely to be mechanical and not very interested. Shanghai Airlines was also accidental because the Shanghai Jiaotong University was always wanted to report it. However, two days before filling in the volunteerism, I saw the announcement of Beihang and felt the school was cool.
At that time, the enrollment teacher of Beihang told a few examples. One of them was Academician Li Wei who is still in Beihang.
The old gentleman graduated from Taiwan University of Success and later went to Lockheed Martin. He spent a very long time at NASA and was one of the designers of the United States Space Shuttle.
I like this thing very much. I read a lot and think that the school has such a cow person. It is like Qian Xuesen. Moreover, it is Taiwanese who return to the mainland and their salary is several times less.
When I reported on the aviation flight machinery manufacturing profession, I thought that I was building an airplane. I also thought that Beihang was building an airplane. As a result, it was discovered that this was only a mechanical device.
During college, I joined the Manufacturing Art Association and also served as president for a while. At that time, Beihang had a policy to participate in student science and technology competitions. He could directly guarantee his first prize, and he couldn't ignore English. At that time, our goal was to take first prizes, and learning was less important.
At that time, I had made more than 20 aircraft servos to make snake-like robots. The steering gear was so expensive. The association’s old people were very unhappy and said that it was a violent object. That work now thinks that it is a very primitive simulation robot. Actually, nobody uses it. It is fun. But at the time of writing the report, I bragged that this snake-like robot could go deeper into the rubble rescue and later won the first prize.
In fact, my grades can also be guaranteed, but it is not enough for me to choose a tutor.
My tutor at the university was Teacher Wang Tianmiao. He is one of the top five Changjiang scholars in Beihang University and a disciple of Zhang Qixian’s academician. Professor Wang Tianmiao's famous work was a brain surgery robot. He had done it earlier than Da Vinci and had done thousands of operations around 2000.
At that time, I really felt that this was too much of a boon. If you are a graduate student, you will definitely be a big bull. You will have more opportunities for bulls and cattle.
Bachelor plus Master, I spent a total of 7 years at Beihang. I think we should also mainly thank those senior members of the Manufacturing Technology Association who are all gangs of geeks. After graduation, I also wrote an article titled "The moles in the basement". At that time, there were several associations in the basement of the main building of Beihang. Together, everyone engaged in a football game called the Mole Cup.
Because it was in the basement all day, the basement was particularly broken, wet, and moldy. The toilet was on the roof and the toilet was leaking. It's much better now. At that time, the basement has a musty smell. However, there was a room where no one was in charge at the time of the undergraduate course. There was a lathe, a drilling machine, an oscilloscope, a computer, various parts, and various waste circuit boards. Fun.
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Professor Wang Tianmiao is not as academically fast as other people. I think this is related to his orientation. He was partial in engineering and did not care much about taking the National Science and Technology Progress Award, or sending several super high-level papers, and did not pursue this.
His style is industrialization, and technology must benefit society. In fact, like Yuan Longping, you said that Yuan Longping has any scientific innovations. He couldn’t talk about it. The method he uses is hybridization, but his achievements are almost invincible.
Professor Wang Tianmiao will not set a higher threshold for thesis than the school minimum requirement. In order to pursue scientific research, some laboratories have to specify that doctors must issue three SCIs. He will not specify this way. Therefore, I was basically doing engineering during my graduate studies.
In fact, during the second year of research, I also wanted to do some scientific research in the past. At that time, I set myself a topic for reading a doctorate called "Machine Evolution." The title was very scary. However, everyone still does more engineering, and they are all engineering sciences, not to the natural sciences. This area of ​​the robot itself is engineering, it is not science.
If the robot has science, it may be that in the future, for example, ethics or sociology may have science. The others are projects. What is artificial intelligence? It is thing of engineering.
In 2006, I graduated with a master's degree. Teacher Wang also opened a company. The doctor's question was so exiled. I went directly to the company.
At the time, he was Bochuang Technology and he did ARM series development board. I used to create the business of educational robots because I was the first one in that company to do robotics, so that department was independent in 2007 and it was equivalent to a subsidiary company, doing business in education robots and explosives robots. .
Robots are my interest. Why education and explosives are chosen because before we entered the company, the project we did at school already had orders. That is the conversion of the 863 result (national high-tech research and development plan). At that time, he had a 863 project called "Police Counter-Terrorism Robot," a high-level project. As a result, he found that someone had to buy it and orders had already been sold. The first order is about 900,000, so this company is based on this order.
In 2007, Bill Gates wrote an article in Scientific American about the dawn of the robot era. At that time, he predicted that the robot would soon enter the family and life. The article actually flickered. A group of people, I was also å¿½æ‚ .
The article was very influential at the time. After we had done this, he only published this article. So we felt we were arrogant and we slammed it. We felt that dawn was coming in the next few years and found that it was a long night. We were pitted badly.
My partner at the time was also a good brother named Han Guang. He still insists on using police robots and high-end police equipment. In the past two days, we had a piece of dinner. He told me one sentence, and the robot was a dragon killer. There are not many terrorist incidents or bombing incidents in China. This is not the United States and it is not the Middle East. The demand is not strong.
There was a case in which a policeman in a certain area of ​​China had an alarm that appeared to be a suspected explosive. After the alarm, he remembered that there was an explosives robot in his home. He wanted to operate it and found that the robot was broken. After several years of separation, there is no need for peacetime.
So the question is here. What does it mean for you to do something that has no demand and does not produce social value? Later, we all sold robots to countries in Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iraq, and most of them were sold in Xinjiang.
In fact, at the time, I didn’t know if I had any doubts about the robots. I was still very excited. But the brothers who worked together could not accept the annual growth rate of 10% and 20%, far lower than the increase in house prices in Beijing. To hope. This means that the company seems to be happy, and it is also a very good thing to do, but to do this, you may never be able to afford housing, brothers are very uncomfortable.
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In 2009, I felt that this was not the right thing to do. We couldn’t do it any longer. We started to engage in internal entrepreneurship.
At that time, I was still the general manager of Bochuang, and it was also a legal person. But I wanted to bring a group of brothers to explore again, so I took 3 million from the company to start the new direction. At that time we were still profitable and we have been making money. However, earning very little, 30 people have a net profit of about 2 million a year, which is very bad.
In the beginning we wanted to make Lego more eloquent than LEGO, which is a building block kit robot. Some people have been engaged in this matter recently. But at that time we didn't think it was good to do it because there was very little money at the time. We counted the number of Lego bricks was scared and found that the mold could cost tens of millions.
Until early 2010, we had the idea of ​​doing a balance car.
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