During her stay in the United States, Xia Tian also led the acquisition of a robot company called irobot.

irobot was founded in 1990 and was co-founded by three professors from the well-known American university MIT. It mainly develops practical robots, such as robot vacuum cleaners, detection robots, exploration robots, etc. Because it is light and practical, it is widely used in multiple fields such as police, civilians, and adventures.

However, although irobot's products are good, they are too high because of the high R&D costs. In addition, the audience of robots is not high enough at this stage. Unlike in previous lives, many people bought sweeping robots. Therefore, irobot's products are very popular but not popular, and their development has once stagnated.

Before the summer acquisition, irobot was seriously insolvent and was being recovered by the bank. Otherwise, it would have to file a lawsuit with the Fa Court and apply for liquidation of irobot.

Because irobot has achieved great achievements in the field of robots, some media regretted its decline. It was also when Xiatian saw this news report that it learned that there is such a robot company.

After in-depth understanding, Xia Tian believes that irobot is very valuable.

On the one hand, its products are actually very practical, both sweeping robots and detection robots are of great use.

Just talking about detection robots can be used in disaster relief, military, and police use. For example, after an earthquake, in order to avoid injury from aftershocks, robots can be sent to detect first; when police and gangsters confront each other or there are unknown suspicions, detection robots can also be sent to detect; detection robots can also be used to clear mines, detect enemy situations, transmit information, etc.

On the one hand, irobot has been engaged in robot research for eight years. Not only has it accumulated a lot of experience and lessons, but it has also applied for a large number of patented technologies.

If these patented technologies are not bought in the summer, they may also touch other people's patents when they develop robots in the future. At that time, they will have to pay a high patent fee at the least, and at worst, they will even be stuck with their throats with patents.

In order to avoid being extorted by "patent hooligans" in the future, it is also beneficial and harmless to future development to acquire irobot and increase its own patents in related fields.

What's more, Xia Tian knew that robots were the main force of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. In the future, human workers will be replaced by robots on a large scale in factories.

In this way, humans will be liberated from labor, while robots can work 24 hours a day without sleep, production efficiency will be greatly improved, but production costs may be greatly reduced. By then, the supply of materials will be particularly sufficient, and humans may enter a well-off society in advance.

Of course, it is also possible that due to the large-scale popularization of robots, production efficiency and production costs have increased, resulting in a few developed countries destroying industries in other countries with low commodities, causing billions of people to be unemployed around the world, and thus turning into a crisis for all mankind.

However, this is all a story.

At least within the visible range, robots have no way to completely replace human work. Moreover, every industrial revolution can certainly eliminate some backward industries and backward jobs. But at the same time, it will also create a large number of emerging industries, so there is no need to be too pessimistic about the future.

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Summer then bought irobot, a high-tech company, for $50 million in cash and a $1.2 billion debt.

After the acquisition, Xiatian hopes that irobot will continue its previous company's purpose and continue to develop practical robots. Such as detection robots, transportation robots, cleaning robots, and even robot pets, robot companions, etc., can be developed.

The trend of future world development is that robots will more and more enter human work and life. As far as summer knows, previous lives such as sweeping robots, mine-removing robots, detection robots, diving robots, etc. have been widely used.

Especially in the field of military scientific research, robots have a greater role than imagined, so irobot company must have a future of development.

In addition to irobot, we also invested in several projects in summer.

One is a new blood test technology. It can detect hidden dangers in the human body by detecting human blood so that timely treatment can be obtained. This type of blood test is similar to a hospital's blood test, but after the technology is improved, the amount of blood test and the time required will be greatly reduced.

In this way, people can enjoy blood testing services more efficiently and safely, so that their diseases can be diagnosed as soon as possible, and their own physical hidden dangers can be eliminated in a timely manner.

One is the invisible clothing technology. Now it is said that the invisible clothing is not a myth or a legend, nor is it an urban story. Instead, it is difficult for people to see it with the characteristics of new materials and the principles of optical.

The investment in the development of invisible clothing technology in summer is not for curiosity or entertainment. In fact, the application of this type of technology in the military and industrial fields is very promising.

Think about it, when the two countries have a war, they confront each other. A can't see B, but B can see A completely. Then you can know the result of the war without fighting. In the industrial field, the invisible clothing technology actually has many uses.

The last one is human bionic technology. This technology is mainly used in health fields, such as artificial prosthetics, artificial hearts, artificial blood vessels, artificial cochleas, artificial bones, artificial eyes, etc.

There are many unfortunate people in the world, with congenital or acquired disabilities, and many people suffer from various diseases and are in great pain. After the human body bionic technology has developed to a certain extent, it can help people solve these pains.

For example, artificial hearts can save patients with heart disease; artificial cochleas can restore hearing to deaf people; artificial eyes can restore light to blind people; artificial prosthetic limbs can also make disabled people walk like flying...

In short, human biomimetic technology can greatly improve the lives of these patients and regain their lives.

According to Xia Tian's estimate, there are at least 200 million people in the world with physical defects. This scale makes artificial bionic technology have broad development prospects. Once the product research is successful, it will be an endless large gold mine.

Therefore, in the field of human bionic technology, summer investment is also the largest, with a total investment of US$400 million to study human bionic technology.

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After all this, Xia Tian immediately took a plane with Wang Qixian and returned to the mainland.

This time when I came back, Xia Tian returned with great reputation, so he did not sneak around, but instead made publicity in advance.

In the 1990s, China still had many shortcomings compared to the Western world. As people's living standards became higher and higher, spiritual demands gradually became stronger. I really hope that China could raise its head in the world.

Therefore, winning the Oscar for Best Picture this time in summer is naturally very shocking news for Chinese people, and it is worth celebrating.
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