The festive atmosphere of the Spring Festival has not yet dissipated, and the new journey has already begun! On the third day of the lunar month, Ruima Chairman Lin Jintian and Assistant Lin Fa, R&D Department Zhu Jianqiang, Technical Department Li Junye, Marketing Department Li Xia and two other investors together met Mr. Lin Yuanqing, founder and CEO of Aibee.

On January 16th,2018, Aibee, the industry upgrade AI overall solution company established by Lin Yuanqing, announced that he had obtained 165 million yuan in angel round of financing. This news became a hot topic in the science and technology community. Everyone is concerned not only about the amount of financing, but also the founder of this company, Lin Yuanqing, the top expert in artificial intelligence.

Lin Yuanqing was formerly the dean of the former Baidu Research Institute, holds a master's degree in optical engineering from Tsinghua University and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and is the head of the media analysis department of the NEC American Laboratory. He has many years of research experience in machine learning and computer vision and other research fields. The remarkable results led the team to achieve the first international test of important computer vision technologies in the world, winning in the “Most Powerful Brain” man-machine competition.

Lin Yuanqing said that the reason why he joined Aibee is to see the broad application prospects of artificial intelligence in education, finance, retail, real estate and other industries. He said that in 2018, it will also be a year for AI to grow rapidly. Like the Internet around 2000, the whole team was founded with strong urgency. This time, he also has to seize the opportunity of AI and open new ones.

In terms of business model, Lin Yuanqing believes that Aibee has broken the limitations of traditional single technologies and integrated multiple technologies such as image recognition, voice recognition, and computer vision. In terms of marketing, it starts from the point of industry demand, but he said that he will not make a customized solution for a company, not AI to Company, but AI to Industry.

On the team side, Lin Yuanqing thinks that in order to adapt to the needs of the "multi-point technology" program in the industry, the composition of the team must be "diversified." Therefore, in Aibee's recruitment positions, computer vision, data analysis, voice intelligence, CV, etc. The development of AI has been done, and it is an office across Beijing and Silicon Valley.

Lin Yuanqing expressed his great appreciation for the investors' recognition of their ideas and gave them great support. He and his team will firmly seize this important historical window, boldly invest and quickly attack.

The area covered by the AI is very broad, and the unmanned shelf closely connects the AI and the weighing instrument. Weighing sensors are the core components of electronic weighing instruments. Under the current wave of the Internet, traditional weighing can no longer meet the growing demand. Under the industry of removing construction machines and weighing instruments, derivative industrial automation, intelligent robots and other sensors The requirements are more nuanced, precise, and digital. Not only simple weighing, but also the ability to interface with the Internet to store more data and analyze it. In short, under the guidance of the development strategy of the Internet, weighing instruments will be transformed from a single manufacturing industry to a manufacturing service industry, from single product sales to solutions that can provide users with a total service platform.

Ruima will also launch new projects into the market in 2018. For how to quickly occupy the market, Lin Yuanqing said that metrology is everywhere and the demand for sensors is also becoming more and more widespread. However, in modern society, the Internet has had a major impact on people’s lives. The lifestyle has also undergone a lot of changes because of the symmetry of information and market saturation that have led to "prudence from buyers." Therefore, in order to achieve an elegant, harmonious and "buyer" consensus, the company must first have strong. The product support, the existence of the company's significance is to achieve the exchange of our needs with customers, which is the transaction, and the product is the carrier of the transaction. The value of the company lies in the value to the customer. In other words, the customer's demand is the direction of the company's efforts. Therefore, we should carefully think about whether our products and services are based on the customer's needs. Fortunately, Matsushita Matsushita said: "Services will determine whether consumers can be satisfied. Everything starts with services." Successful companies all regard service as their core competitiveness, and many companies lose customers. It is not that their products are not good. It is a low-level service that offends the customer. The next step is how to promote the market. For each industry, pre-promotion is required to be done by one family. However, the products and services we provide are needed by the entire industry. This is the core and advantage of our Ruima, so after cooperating with 2 or 3 companies, they can quickly penetrate the industry and open up the market.

For the emerging industry - unmanned shelf is the most promising market. Since 2017, unmanned shelf have sprung up, financed, and tapped into the market. They have quickly become a winner in the new retail sector. Internet-related companies are more or less involved. Someone began to wonder, in the end no one is good for a shelf, worthy of so many venture capital ventures. There are three reasons: new retail, new business opportunities, low threshold.

1, New retail

The term "new retail" was introduced as early as the end of 2016. Mr. Ma Yun thought that the era of pure e-commerce has passed, and online and offline must be combined. The next decade is the era of new retail. As soon as this concept came out, it quickly attracted public opinion. No-person retailing was considered as an important part of new retail sales. No-person stores and unmanned shelves attracted the attention of many investors at the same time. Until 2017, unmanned shelves began to occupy the market rapidly, and more and more giant companies (Alibaba, Tencent) invested.

2, New business opportunities

There is no interest in the blue ocean of the new retail industry, or inaccessible. Then, unmanned shelf is born for this “blue ocean”. Investors saw the business opportunities in them and they entered the market one after another.

3, Low threshold

Have to admit that the newly-launched unmanned shelf function is still relatively single, compared to unmanned supermarkets, its technical content is lower, the only technology is the payment of the two-dimensional code, so whether it is from the cost or software on the shelf All occupy the absolute advantage, which is why investors look at it.

Of course, the development of unmanned shelves to today, where the technology involved already includes face recognition, cargo weighing, cloud statistics and so on. Lin Yuanqing pointed out that the weighing system is closely related to the sensors, but unlike traditional weighing, it requires big data analysis. "Modern weighing instruments" have already changed from "measurement scales" to "control scales". The combination of microprocessors and load cells has once again caused a change in weighing technology. The modern weighing industry has become a high-tech industry that integrates traditional sciences such as machinery, electronics, computers, automation, communications, networks, sound and light, and modern science and technology. Therefore, high concentration is the development trend of the future weighing industry.

The whole conversation process lasted nearly two hours. Lin Yuanqing, the top expert in the field of artificial intelligence, even though he has a lot of titles, has a very high value, but the atmosphere is as easy and full, he and we discussed in depth the development of the weighing industry. , The company's future interest growth point and the exchange of product technology. The 2018 is a crucial year for Ruima’s entry into the third five-year plan. The new year means a new starting point, new opportunities, and new challenges. This year, all Ruima people will unite and work hand in hand. Keep a high record, achieve a new leap forward, and create new glories.