AI Unicorn Enterprise and Humanoid Robot R&D Enterprise Technology announced that it has completed the $820 million Series C financing led by Tencent. This round of financing refreshed on April 9th, one of the domestic AI four small dragons, Shang Tang Technology won the highest record of 600 million US dollars in a single round of financing. After this round of financing, the valuation of Ubisoft will also reach 5 billion US dollars, becoming the world. The most highly valued AI venture.

As the first reporting media, Zhizhi also contacted Zhou Jian, the founder and CEO of Youbie, for the first time. He interviewed about the 820 million US dollars, the new biped robot, and the To B/To C market. Detailed information such as playing style. From 2008, he started his career in the field of robotics, and created the excellent robot company, and developed four core product directions. Zhou Jian has been dead with the robot for 10 years.

In the early days of its establishment, Youbi was an early concern project for Zhizhi. In 2015, Zhizhi had an in-depth interview with Zhou Jian, the founder of Youbie. (Hard Creation Pioneer Zhou Jian: A 6-year humanoid robot entrepreneurship "The ascetic monk") In March last year, Zhizhi was also invited to visit the Shenzhen headquarters to conduct on-the-spot visits. (Dialogue must be selected Zhou Jian: How far is it from the unicorn to the tens of billions of companies?)

Five financings in one or six years, Tencent and Keda News have voted

As early as November 2017, there were reports that the company had completed a $40 million Series C financing, but it did not receive a formal response from the UBS official, and today Ubunt officially announced the completion of $820 million C. Round financing. This round of financing was led by Tencent, ICBC, Haier, Minsheng Securities, Telstra, Real Home, Thailand Chia Tai Group, Minsheng Bank, Yixin Group, CGNPC, Tietou Group, Songhe Capital, etc. B-round is required to invest in the investment of Dinghui Capital. It is reported that Tencent led the investment of 120 million US dollars.

â–²You must choose founder/CEO Zhou Jian

Yu Jian, founder/CEO of Zhou You, said that this round of financing will be mainly used for R&D investment, market and brand expansion, and the introduction of excellent talents. At the same time, the overall sales target for 2018 will exceed RMB 2 billion.

Excellent must be established in 2012 and has completed a total of 5 rounds of financing so far:

1. In 2013, it was awarded the 20 million yuan angel round financing by Zhengxuan Investment and Lihe Huarui Investment. The company's valuation reached 100 million yuan;

2. In 2015, the company received a $10 million Series A financing from Qiming Venture Capital, and the company's valuation also reached 100 million US dollars;

3. In the same year, UBS was awarded a $9 million A+ round of financing by HKUST, and its valuation tripled to US$300 million.

4. In April 2016, CDH Capital and CITIC Goldstone jointly invested US$100 million in the selection of Ubuntu. This move also enabled Ubuntu to achieve a valuation of US$1 billion;

5, the fifth financing is today's excellent selection again to get Tencent led investment, multi-party investment of 820 million US dollars C round of financing, the valuation has increased five times, reaching 5 billion US dollars.

Second, financing funds will promote the development of humanoid intelligent robots

A single round of financing of 820 million yuan, set a new record for the AI ​​circle financing, such a large amount of financing, what changes will be brought to the business of the preferred business?

â–²Walker down the stairs

1. Promote the commercialization of the biped robot Walker. At the beginning of the year at CES, the excellent selection also showed the biped robot Walker, with voice interaction, navigation obstacle avoidance and other functions, focusing on remote monitoring, education, escort and other home scenes. The 2018 Premium must add arms to Walker to interact with people.

2. You must choose to develop a new humanoid robot with similar movements, looks and tone. The current round of financing was selected by Tencent. In addition to the funds, the two sides also carried out in-depth cooperation. According to the excellent selection, this humanoid robot also has a wealth of ecological content.

3. Increase research on artificial intelligence technology. These include speech recognition, natural language understanding, computer vision, single/polymorphic emotion recognition, and SLAM.

At present, the company is investing 45% of its annual revenue in R&D. In the entire team, R&D personnel account for more than 40%. In terms of talent introduction, Ubunt has been convening a world-renowned scholar in the field of AI and robotics. At present, he has introduced the academician of the European Academy of Sciences, Professor Tao Dacheng of the University of Sydney as the "Chief Scientist of Artificial Intelligence", Professor Zhao Mingguo of Tsinghua University as the "Chief Scientist of Humanoid Robot", former President of IEEE Howard Michel as a director, famous inventor of Japan, Robi Robot Father Gao Qiao Zhilong became the chief product officer. The introduction of these talents will also advance the technical research on the robot + AI.

In addition to the elite of the head, the overall expansion speed of the excellent team is also very amazing. "We didn't have 100 people in 2015." Zhou Jian said that now the excellent team is close to a thousand people, in various technologies and The business line has introduced many middle-level backbone personnel.

At present, there are two major business lines, To B and To C. To C is the current main business of Ubi, and the market is also simultaneously developing domestic and foreign markets, 40 in China, North America, Europe, Southeast Asia, etc. The above countries and regions sell more than 7,000 global retail terminals. Currently, the sales ratio of foreign markets and domestic markets is roughly 6:4. In the To C business line, Youbie has three series of products: the consumer-grade humanoid robot Alpha series, the STEM educational intelligent programming robot Jimu, and the IP robot that cooperates with Disney.

â–²Excellent commercial service robot Cruzr

In the To B business line, the company launched the intelligent cloud platform commercial service robot Cruzr in 2017. It is said that the current sales volume is tens of thousands. The largest procurement case is 2150 Cruzr robots in January this year. Thousands of stores have been on the job, and the home of the family has also participated in the current round of financing.

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