Chapter 176 It's Their Turn
What difficulties are there in front of Xiaosanghe Company?
This is a question that many people are thinking about.
After thinking about it, judging by all the information they learned, Xiaosanghe Company's current shortcomings are probably the only manufacturing cost.
In their eyes, the battery life Lu Yu said is not a problem at all. Ordinary household robots will not be used outdoors for a long time, so what are the battery life they consider?
Can't you charge anytime, anywhere at home?
When Xiaosanghe Company completely solves the costly problem, once it officially enters the market, it is afraid that other companies will basically not bring them much competitive pressure to the products launched with their existing technical strength.
In other words, the existing home robot manufacturing companies will inevitably be affected.
Even if they can still occupy a lot of their original market share, at least they won’t live as well as they are now. Some silly and cute little discs dare to sell for thousands of yuan, how much is the cost?
To draw this conclusion, all of these people who developed home robot companies were frustrated and sighed that the prospects were dark, which was the gap brought by technology.
They are all home robots. If the prices are not much different, consumers don’t need to think about which product they choose.
Now, the only good news for these companies is that the cost of Xiaosanghe Company is too high and there is no possibility of a reduction in a short period of time.
Even if it is reduced, it cannot be reduced to a price of several thousand. Many hardware costs are there, even if it is not considered R&D and operating costs.
For example, the robots of Xiaosanghe Company are equivalent to fruit companies in the mobile phone industry.
Its product performance, technical characteristics and advantages are destined to be able to stand in the high-end consumer market in the industry.
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After the emergence of fruit mobile phones, many small manufacturers that make feature phones went bankrupt, but many manufacturers survived and still lived more comfortably than before.
These home robot companies are like the small manufacturers that made feature machines at the time.
Fortunately, they are much better than the small manufacturers that made feature phones at the time, and they have enough breathing time to prepare, consolidate and grasp the low-priced market, or seek company transformation.
They have almost never considered such things by investing money and developing technology of the same level.
The technical gap between the two sides is not a little bit, and it can even be said to be a generation gap, more than one generation.
Robotics alone are already like this, not to mention robot control systems and artificial intelligence.
How can they chase such a big technical gap between the two sides?
Even if they seek financing and provide sufficient R&D funds, but lack relevant talents, such a technical gap makes them feel desperate when they think about it. They can take a shower and sleep. Wouldn't it be faster to catch up in their dreams?
The home robot industry can be said to be a fog for a while.
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Of course, things in the world are not absolute, and not all home robot companies are so pessimistic.
There are also some companies with considerable technical strength who have seen a glimmer of opportunities to rise and expand their scale in the crisis that is about to face a drastic industry change.
As for a crisis, the greater the danger, the greater the opportunity.
With companies like Xiaosanghe entering the market, the market size of home robots will inevitably expand rapidly. Whether they can eat meat and drink soup in this process depends on their own abilities.
Like several domestic mobile phone manufacturers, they have just seized the opportunity of expanding the smartphone market and rose in full swing.
Look at others and think about yourself, you can follow this path.
Someone has explored the future and proved feasible. It depends on whether you can keep up with the pace and not fall behind.
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Most of the home robot industry is terrible, but industrial robot manufacturing companies are just the opposite.
Not only did they not feel anxious, they even saw extremely huge business opportunities and hoped that industrial manufacturing robots would take off.
Although the robotic technology Lu Yu demonstrated is much ahead of them, it also proves something from the perspective of capital and the market:
Under the existing hardware conditions, robotic arms suitable for large-scale industrial production will definitely be manufactured.
Industrial production robots and robotic arms have been developing for many years. So far, why hasn’t they been promoted on a large scale and only used on a small scale?
In addition to the high initial investment cost, more importantly, the technology is very incomplete and can only replace some simple repetitive manual labor.
These two points are almost an unsolvable paradox in the industry. If the accuracy is slightly complicated and the accuracy is slightly improved, the cost will naturally inevitably increase.
Factory business owners, of course, pursue profits when conducting production activities.
The benefits obtained by using robots and robotic arms that are complex in maintenance and expensive in investment are far less than those obtained by using manpower, or slightly higher than those obtained by using manpower, and are not obvious.
In this case, there is no need to explain how the factory owner chooses.
Don’t the owner of such a factory know that this is the future development trend?
We must know, but we know that industrial robots and robotic arm technologies have not been completely developed and matured, the application model has not been completely clear, and the prospects and money have not been clear, they will not take this risk.
Chasing fame and profit and seeking profit and avoiding harm are both human instincts.
Only a few factory business owners have a long-term vision and selective promotions within a small range.
Is there any effect or profit?
Yes, but it is very limited, not enough for them to place heavy bets, nor enough for others to follow suit.
No one’s money is not blown by the strong wind, so there is no reason to use your own money to pay for the development of the industrial robot industry.
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This is also the dilemma faced by the industrial robot industry. It has large investment and small returns. Many companies operate in debt. Even profitable companies have pitifully low profit margins, far less than those in the financial, real estate and Internet industries.
The profit is low and cannot attract hot capital, the R&D funds are limited, and the technological progress is slow, resulting in low product sales, resulting in lower company profits, forming such a vicious cycle.
Although the current situation has improved, it is far from being a big profit.
The current debut of Lu Yu Company's robots at least proves that technology is feasible under current hardware conditions, and the prospects for industrial production robots and robotic arms are promising, not as untouchable as before.
Even though they do not have the strong technical strength of Xiaosanghe Company now, just like the Internet development in the past few years, as long as they have a PPT and tell a good story, they will still be popular among all kinds of capital, and the financing threshold is outrageously low.
Once, companies like them who manufacture physically were extremely envious.
What is expected now is that if the company itself is still large and its technology is not blank, it will definitely cause capital to chase after it.
These industrial robot manufacturing companies are full of joy and confidence. The severe winter of the industry is about to pass and spring is coming.
It's their turn to show their strength!
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These industrial robot manufacturing companies held high-level meetings overnight to discuss corporate development and strategic planning.
Well, to put it simply, the difficulty of financing for the company has dropped sharply. Now their most important thing is to make an excellent PPT and tell an excellent story.
In short, we must use beautiful prospects and money to trick capital into it first.
As for whether to expand the scale first or invest in R&D after cheating in, hehe, he has been on the bed of the house... I want to continue, I am afraid that it is not because young people think too much and live in their dreams?
If you are trapped, you must be trapped, and you must be trapped in depth!
The physical manufacturing industry has finally seen such an investment explosion point, and a surging investment boom is about to emerge. We must seize the opportunity.
Whether the company will decline or take off in the future, whether everyone will eat meat or drink soup depends on this time, and it will definitely not be possible if you don’t do your best.
Whoever drags his back will be drowned by the big guy's spit.
It’s not that these people are secretly slapping it. It’s really difficult for the physical manufacturing industry over the years.
With social and economic development, rising labor costs, rising raw material costs, lower profits, difficulty in financing, insufficient R&D funds, slow technology updates, and reduced competitiveness, many small businesses are facing bankruptcy or have gone bankrupt.
In this environment, many physical enterprises have been mining for three years, and the sows are showing off Diao Chan, not to mention the beautiful woman who is arrogant and has disdained them in the past?
Who can't see the light and rise up, wishing to ride up and ruin it!
Anyway, it’s not my own money, so if I waste it, it will be ruined. If I waste it, I will do a miracle and make a big fat boy...
Hmm, no, what if you accidentally get some results?
Chapter completed!