If you are sleepy, the drone will automatically pour coffee.

Your next barista may be a drone.

It is reported that IBM has applied for a patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle that can automatically fly over a cup of coffee before the needs of corporate employees or cafe customers.

The drone will use sensors to detect if someone wants to drink coffee, based on a specific gesture or "predicted cognitive state." Subsequently, the unmanned person flies over the demander and delivers the coffee through a beverage holder (such as a plastic bag) attached to the device. In one example, the drone can pour coffee directly into someone's mug.

The patent also describes how drones can assess whether they need a cup of coffee based on a person's "cognitive state." The document states: "Evaluation and prediction are based on any of the following characteristics: sleep quality, electronic calendar, biometrics, blood pressure, pupil dilation, facial expression analysis, wake-up time, and gesture analysis."

These features can be detected by some wearable devices or personal electronic calendars. The drone will also connect to the server at the same time to know the next destination.

In addition, the system can even predict when and where users will need a cup of coffee based on their coffee consumption habits. The patent explains: “Coffee consumption tends to be habitual or ritual, and many people start a new day with a cup of coffee, and then drink it during morning breaks or after-meal activities.”

"Over time, the system will learn how and when someone tends to consume coffee, and after recording it, [adjust the personalization settings for someone or place based on the level of confidence."

Of course, this drone can also meet the user's preferences, or in other words, it can also provide milk coffee or filter coffee.

Interestingly, this patent also describes other uses for biometric sensors. If a person gets drunk and is identified by unusual movements or ambiguous language, the drone will cancel the order for another cup.

It is worth mentioning that IBM has also been exploring other drone technologies, such as the series of drones that can transmit packages in the air.

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Information flow advertising brings privacy concerns, how media can rebuild trust through advertising technology innovation

Since Facebook launched its first information flow advertisement in 2006, in the past 12 years, information flow advertising has revolutionized the original advertising ecosystem and the digital advertising media market. However, after the sweet period, the proliferation of false information and the leakage of user privacy caused by information flow advertisements have increasingly plunged the platform into a crisis of trust.

In 2006, Facebook took the lead in testing water flow advertising

In response to the above problems, the European Union introduced the "General Data Protection Regulations" (GDPR) on May 25 this year to protect the data security of EU residents; California has also issued relevant consumer bills to protect user privacy. At the same time, many media are also trying to cope with the negative impact of information flow advertising on their homepage, and actively deal with fraud and user information leakage caused by information flow advertising. At this year's Srccon summit, the Washington Post shared how it has rectified information flow advertising through ad technology revolutions. In this issue, the whole media (ID: quanmeipai) edited the contents of the "Washington Post" to see how technology is good.

The hidden data behind the 100 billion advertising market

At present, the information flow advertising market is in a period of rapid development and maturity of application. The global market has reached a level of 100 billion, and will continue to grow at a rate of more than 50% every year. Data, technology-driven, accurate, effective, personalized content distribution, is the most prominent feature of information flow advertising is different from traditional native advertising. This feature also makes information flow advertising on the customer conversion rate, and is popular with advertisers.

Sino-US information flow advertising market AMC model comparison data source: Analysys easy view

User data is the core support of information flow advertising, but how to apply, manage and manage data in a professional, transparent and healthy way has become a difficult problem. US media consultancy Tune and Forrester Consulting surveyed 300 US mobile marketers in January and found that more than one-third of organizations view data quality as the biggest challenge facing digital advertising today. In Adestra and Ascend2's survey of 154 marketers, nearly half of the respondents said that data management is one of the most difficult tasks at present, which is reflected in the difficulty of staff monitoring the data flow. It is difficult to control the quality of the data. According to eMarketer, advertising marketers will invest more in mobile data management this year, and mobile advertising spending is expected to exceed TV advertising spending, accounting for 70% of all digital advertising spending.

Traditional media seeks advertising technology transformation

The Washington Post hopes to establish a media-led advertising process. Traditional dynamic display advertising is a "server-server" process with control over the technology backend rather than the media front end. The Washington Post hopes to collaborate with other media to interact with digital inventory and tools to create a rendering system that loads ads on the front end of the media.

In order to achieve this goal, we first need to design a common language across the server platform, so that different media staff can structure the data in the advertising content system, deconstruct and reconstruct the advertising services that need to be shared...... Under this scenario, the cooperative media will achieve cross-platform flexible application and supervision of advertising content.

Responsible for the design of the system is the Washington Post's RED team, which gathers professional members from different departments such as CMS architecture, advertising operations, and marketing. The core of the work is the structure of the advertising object, including the data designed to describe the creative advertising object, the advertisement positioning template, the advertising outer chain and the server outer chain identifier, the metadata of the filtering advertisement, and the content component of the design advertising display position. Wait.

Digital advertising future with content reverse drive technology

Up to now, the "Washington Post" has completed the construction of a cross-platform information flow advertising management system from a technical level, but this system still needs to be combined with the actual advertising content, advertising forms, and the media content of the display page. Optimized and improved.

First of all, this system has not taken into account emerging advertising formats such as panoramic advertising, AR advertising, and VR advertising. Secondly, the current system is still unable to realize the relevance identification of the advertising content and the media content from the front end. For example, when an editor realizes that an advertisement content is inappropriate for appearing on a web page, the editor should retain the right to close the advertisement. At present, the "Washington Post" is improving the screening efficiency by adding "exclusions" to the system, and the Atlantic Monthly has implemented this function in the internal CMS system, which can effectively prevent advertisements from appearing. On the home page of sensitive content.

In addition, the Washington Post hopes to establish a quantifiable digital content management system in the future, using 1-10 to represent media content at different security levels, 1 indicating that no ads are allowed on the content home page, and 10 indicating It's safe to show any ads on this content page. This system will be mainly used in the programmatic advertising positioning.

The system set up by the Washington Post is still in internal debugging and small-scale trials. The team said that it will actively communicate and communicate with other media partners during this year to promote the improvement and iteration of the system. The official version of the digital ad management system is expected to be available in early 2019, when media will be able to use the new CMS system to handle advertising on the site. At the same time, they will also develop a series of automated tools that are closely related to information flow advertising and user data management.

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The performance monster Kirin 980 is coming, except for 7nm, what else?

A few days ago, Huawei's terminal microblog released a video preview of "Exploring the future, beyond imagination, Berlin, Germany on August 31." Although the video does not indicate the upcoming product, the pattern of the chip shape clearly implies that the protagonist of this conference is Kirin 980.

Performance monster, full firepower

In view of the excellent confidentiality work of China, we know very little about the specific specifications of Kirin 980. The only thing that can be determined at this time is that Kirin 980 will be the world's first commercial mobile chip using 7nm process technology.

A little understanding of the chip process will tell that the smaller the process, the more the area can accommodate more transistors, which can lead to improved performance and reduced power consumption. It is reported that the 7-nanometer chip is expected to reduce power consumption by 40% compared to the 10-nanometer chip, and the chip area is reduced by 37%. Compared with the 16nm chip, the area can be reduced to 1/3, the power consumption is expected to be reduced by 60%, and the performance is improved by at least 30%.

In addition, Gizmochina said it received an official confirmation from ARM that the Kirin 980 will be equipped with the Cortex A76 architecture. The Cortex A76 is a new architecture released by ARM in June this year. It is a high-performance experience and is designed to replace the two cores of the Cortex A73 and Cortex A75 in the past two years.

According to ARM officially, the Cortex A76 is a "new architecture completely built from scratch." Compared to the Cortex A73, the integer performance is increased by 90%, the floating point performance is increased by 150%, and the overall performance is increased by 80%. Compared to the Cortex A75, the overall performance improvement is also 35%.

At the same time, due to improvements in the instruction set level, the Cortex A76 performs a "machine learning application" with a performance improvement of 400%. There is also a 40% increase in energy efficiency.

Undoubtedly, under the support of Cortex A76 architecture and 7nm process, the performance of Kirin 980 will be greatly improved. On the GPU side, there have been reports that the Kirin 980 is expected to carry the 24-core Mail-G72.

But it is more worthy of our expectation, it should be a new generation of NPU.

Next generation NPU

Artificial intelligence (AI) is probably the most popular technology at the moment, bringing new possibilities for the improvement of the user experience of smart phones. The functions that were previously limited by hardware performance and can not be realized can also achieve new breakthroughs by relying on AI.

The carrier carrying the AI ​​operation currently has two main forms, one is a heterogeneous operation represented by a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, and the DSP is used to coordinate the GPU and the CPU for calculation. The other is a form of adding an independent AI operation module represented by the Kirin 970 and Apple A11 bionics.

The Kirin 970 was equipped with the Cambrian 1A (NPU) for AI calculations. Its market performance has proven consumer support for the NPU. Today, Cambrian has released the third generation of the terminal product using the 7nm process - Cambricon 1M. Not surprisingly, the Kirin 980 will be equipped with this newly released product.

Compared to the Cambrian 1A, the performance of the Cambricon 1M has increased tenfold. It is reported that its 8-bit computing performance ratio is 5Tops/watt (5 trillion calculations per watt), providing three scales of processor cores (2Tops/4Tops/8Tops) to meet different processing requirements of different processing scenarios. And can further improve performance through multi-core interconnection.

What are the surprises of Huawei Mate 20?

Without any surprise, Huawei Mate 20 will be the first product to be equipped with Kirin 980. With the huge success of Huawei's Mate 10 global shipments exceeding 10 million, what surprises will Huawei Mate 20 bring?

The performance improvement is inevitable. Under the support of Kirin 980, Mate 20 may also be equipped with a new generation of CPU/GPU Turbo technology, bringing new possibilities for games and daily application experiences.

Thanks to the enhancement of the Kirin 980 process, the Mate 20 will also perform better in terms of battery life and power control. The 4200mAh battery, 5V/4.5A fast charge, can help Mate 20 solve the problem of battery life.

The full screen design will not be absent, and the COP package will bring a narrower chin. In order to integrate the whole machine, the screen will be added to the optical fingerprint recognition. In addition, there are also reports that the Mate 20 Pro will be equipped with 3D structured light technology.

The highly acclaimed Leica three photos are naturally preserved, and the upgraded NPU will help take Mate 20's photo to the next level. In addition, EMUI 9 based on Android 9.0 will also appear at the same time.

There is no doubt that Huawei Mate 20 will become a strong competitor in the high-end flagship market in the second half of the year.

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NVIDIA determines the focus of future development: game + artificial intelligence

As a world-renowned graphics card manufacturer, Nvidia recently released its second quarter financial report for FY 2019. The report now shows that compared with the same period last year, the company's sales performance has increased by 40%, has reached 3.12 billion US dollars, net income increased by 89%. %, reaching $1.1 billion, Nvidia's market value of $1.76 per share also exceeded Wall Street experts' valuation of $1.66, an increase of 91% compared to last year.

From the database, game industry, graphics graphics and automotive departments, the company's sales have broken new records, among which the database and game industry accounted for the most important position in these major business units, which is also in line with the company's development. It is expected that in the second quarter, database revenue will increase by 83% in one year and currently account for 24% of total revenue, up from 10.5% two years ago. In this regard, NVIDIA's CFO Colette Kress emphasized that the artificial intelligence AI reasoning system, This technology, which helps AI servers complete voice and image recognition services, has made an outstanding contribution to the department.

She said that NVIDIA will continue to develop the AI ​​reasoning system and expand its database market, and mentioned that the company's recent new AI reasoning software (TensorRT 4) released in the second quarter will help NVIDIA solve the deep learning reasoning workload problem. The CPU can provide up to 190 times the acceleration performance. CEO Huang Renxun also said that NVI has been exploring AI reasoning technology for many years. In the database, AI reasoning software will open up a broader market, although it is not in the NVIDIA database. The biggest business, but its growth potential is huge, and the growth rate will be very fast.

This TensorRT AI inference system can be used to quickly optimize, validate and deploy trained neural networks in hyperscale databases, embedded and automotive GPU platforms, common in computer vision, neural network machine translation, automatic speech recognition, speech synthesis, etc. In application, it can greatly speed up the reasoning of deep learning and reduce the cost of data centers. NVIDIA's leadership team also believes that the total valuation of the business in the market will reach 50 billion US dollars in the future.

The game division accounted for 58% of Nvidia's total revenue. So far, game revenue is the most important performance driver for Nvidia. In the second quarter, the company's game revenue increased by 52% year-on-year. NVIDIA management team said that the reason for the increase in revenue On the one hand, because many schools have strong demand for high-end computer equipment, and on the other hand, they are caused by the fast-growing game market, including notebooks, desktops and game consoles, and the market will continue to be active in the short term. The audience of e-sports games is currently close to 400 million, an increase of 18% compared to the same period last year. The popular games like Fortnite "Fortress Night" have made great contributions.

Kress also mentioned that NVIDIA's recently announced Turing architecture will take the gaming industry to a new level, and said that the Turing architecture is the most important innovation of NVIDIA since the release of CUDA GPU. This new GPU architecture will become The cornerstone of future company development, and CEO Huang Renxun's original words are as follows: "Turing architecture is a re-innovation of computer graphics, this is the first to use ray tracing technology in the environment, create real shadow reflection effect and achieve regional lighting, omnidirectional illumination And GPUs for regional lighting modeling, and these built images will be very refined."

For many years, Nvidia has been in the leading position of graphics processors. The company’s second-quarter sales performance has also led the NVIDIA to stand in the spotlight with the release of the Turing architecture, but even in the face of such strong second-quarter results. NVIDIA still maintains a cautious development attitude, saying that the expected development target for the third quarter should be flat at around 2% floating point, reaching $3.25 billion in revenue, while Wall Street's forecast for NVIDIA in the third quarter is $3.24 billion.

Kress also mentioned that his earnings expectations did not include the bitcoin-induced mining market, but Huang Renxun mentioned that virtual currency has a great impact on the development of NVIDIA's GPU business. He mentioned: "At the beginning of this year, we thought Bitcoin mine The machine market will contribute a lot to the GPU business in the years to come, but now we find that the development potential of this business is not ideal." In general, NVIDIA's future development momentum will continue to rise in the near future, its game in the game. The position of industry and database is almost unmovable. In addition, the company's recently announced Turing architecture graphics card will become a key factor in its market competitiveness.

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Mobile phones have been defeated in the Chinese market, but Samsung’s sales in China have set new records.

Samsung's mobile phone business is available in the Chinese market, and its market share is less than 1%. However, its recent financial report released in the first half of this year shows that its sales revenue in the Chinese market has reached a new high, and the Chinese market has surpassed the Americas to become it. The largest source of income.why?

Samsung is more than just a mobile phone company

Chinese consumers' understanding of Samsung is mostly based on the fact that it is the world's largest mobile phone company. This position has been maintained since it defeated Nokia in 2012, but it has lost its brilliance due to the failure of its mobile phone business in the Chinese market. .

In fact, Samsung is also a global leader in a number of industries, with a strong mobile phone industry chain. Samsung is the world's largest storage chip company. In 2017, it has a market share of DRAM memory of about 46% and a market share of nearly four cities in the NAND flash market. In recent years, the price of memory chips has continued to rise, making Samsung the biggest winner and promoting It surpassed Intel for the first time last year to become the world's largest semiconductor company. At present, the price of NAND flash has dropped and DRAM memory chips continue to rise. In the second quarter of this year, Samsung Semiconductor's revenue-leading Intel advantage has expanded to more than 20%.

Last year, Apple adopted OLED panels for the first time. Due to the huge influence of Apple in the smart phone industry, this is accelerating the popularity of OLED panels in the smart phone industry. Chinese mobile phone companies are also adopting OLED panels. In the second quarter of this year, the global smart phone industry is targeting OLED panels. The surge in demand has spurred panel companies to accelerate the production or expansion of OLED panels. At present, Samsung is the leader in the panel market of small and medium-sized OLEDs (mainly for digital electronic products such as smart phones), which accounts for more than 90% of the market. The OLED panel of iPhoneX is only supplied by Samsung. It is expected that Samsung will also adopt two OLEDs for Apple this year. The exclusive supply of the panel's OLED panel for the iPhone.

The results of 2017 show that the memory chip and panel business are Samsung's two major sources of profit, and promote Samsung's quarterly net profit to record highs, showing how profitable Samsung has gained from its leadership in these two industries.

In addition, Samsung is also a leader in chip manufacturing. It has achieved the leading edge of the largest chip foundry TSMC in 14/16nm FinFET, 10nm, 7nm processes; it is also in CMOS, chip design and other industries. Has an important position. It is because of its advantages in the industry chain that it continues to provide hardware innovation and has won the only position in the high-end mobile phone market that can compete with Apple.

Strong industrial chain strength drives high sales in the Chinese market

China's mobile phone companies have risen rapidly in recent years. In 2017, seven of the world's top ten mobile phone companies came from China, which highlights the fact that Chinese mobile phone companies have already challenged the strength of Samsung and Apple. However, the reality is that domestic mobile phone companies are still highly dependent on Samsung. Supply of components such as foreign companies.

The storage chips of Chinese mobile phone companies mainly rely on imports. At present, the top three DRAM memory chips in the world are Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron; the top six NAND flash memory chips are Samsung, Toshiba, SanDisk, SK Hynix, Micron and Intel, such as Samsung mentioned above. The industry is in the first place and has an absolute advantage. When the shipments of Chinese mobile phone companies continue to hit new highs, Samsung's storage chip revenues continue to hit new highs.

In terms of OLED panels, Chinese mobile phone companies are more dependent on Samsung. OPPO and vivo in the domestic mobile phone top four have always provided high deposits to Samsung to ensure that Samsung supplies OLED panels; Xiaomi used LGD's OLED panel, but found that it has a gap in technology with Samsung, this year's release of Xiaomi 8, Xiaomi 8SE adopts Samsung's OLED panel; last year it was said that Huawei will use BOE's OLED panel. However, mate10 Pro and P20 Pro all adopt Samsung's OLED panel, highlighting the high dependence of domestic mobile phone companies on Samsung OLED panels.

Meizu now adopts a diversified strategy in terms of chips. It also uses Qualcomm, MediaTek and Samsung's mobile phone chips. At the beginning of this year, Xiaomi and Meizu competed for Samsung's CMOS to improve the shooting performance of mobile phones. This highlights Samsung's CMOS. Technical advantages.

As a result, domestic mobile phone companies have adopted a large number of Samsung products in terms of memory chips and OLED panels. In the case of Samsung’s mobile phone business in China, Samsung’s sales in the Chinese market have reached new highs. The Chinese market contributed 32.7% of sales to Samsung, surpassing the American market, which has consistently contributed the largest percentage of revenue to Samsung, highlighting the huge competitive advantage that Samsung's industrial chain business has.

However, Samsung can't afford to worry about it. Samsung's mobile phone business and TV business have provided strong support for its development of the industry chain with strong competitive advantages. If Samsung's mobile phone business and TV business are further recessed, it is likely that In the event of misfortune and its industrial chain business, the innovation capability of the industrial chain business may decline, and the bargaining power will be weakened.

On the other hand, China is accelerating its own industrial chain strength. China's three major memory chip companies - Changjiang Storage, Hefei Changxin, and Fujian Jinhua are deployed in the NAND flash and DRAM industries respectively, and are expected to start production at the end of this year; The large panel company BOE's OLED panel production line has been put into production, and Huaxing Optoelectronics' OLED panel production line is expected to be put into production in 2020. The rise of China's mobile phone companies will provide support for these domestic industrial chain companies, and they will likely become a major threat to Samsung in time.

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Focus on AR, Google terminates cooperation with IMAX VR camera project

Google and IMAX will no longer cooperate to develop VR cameras. According to Yingwei.com, both parties have quietly cancelled the camera development project started in 2016. A Google spokesperson declined to comment on the partnership, but an IMAX spokesperson admitted that the project has been terminated.

IMAX pointed out: "We are currently suspending the development of Imax VR cameras, and we will continue to review the feasibility of the pilot program."

IMAX launched the pilot program for offline VR in early 2017 and opened seven VR centers in major cities around the world. However, the company has closed two of its VR centers a few days ago and will decide on the future of the remaining five VR centers in the coming months.

However, Variety quoted a source as saying that the decision to terminate the development of VR cameras actually came from Google. Sources pointed out that as Google was turning its attention to augmented reality, they cancelled the project at the end of 17 years.

Google and IMAX initially announced the joint development of VR cameras in June 2016. At the time, the two companies pointed out that they would collaborate to develop cinema-grade VR cameras, supporting "the top directors and content creators today to provide the highest quality 3D 360-degree content experience for a global audience."

The two companies then began the development of cameras, where IMAX provided experience in designing high-end cameras, while Google contributed cloud-matching solutions for VR content. According to sources, the project participants have about 60 people, including contractors.

Google has previously worked with GoPro and Little Ant to develop a VR camera. The most recent result is the $20,000 VR camera Yi Halo, which captures 3D VR clips in 17 separate shots.

Both parties have always described the Imax VR camera as ambitious, designed to help users capture a more immersive 3D experience. The signs of termination of cooperation were first seen in IMAX's comments at the earnings conference, which they mentioned “final contract payments related to the Imax VR cameras announced earlier”.

Google has recently focused on providing AR applications and experiences for hundreds of millions of Android users. However, the search giant has not completely abandoned the next generation of film production technology. For example, Google researchers demonstrated advanced light field photo and video capture technology at the Siggraph conference last week. At the same time, Google hired some of the staff of Lytro, the original light field camera manufacturer.

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Robots work more efficiently

On August 15th, the five-day World Robotics Congress kicked off at the Beijing International Exhibition Center. The World Robotics Congress, known as the “Davos”, “Hanover Exhibition” and “Olympic Games” in the robotics industry, has been successfully held for three sessions. The theme of this conference is “To create a new era of wisdom and sharing kinetic energy”.

The Expo is one of the most watched and publicly-received sections of previous conferences. On the basis of the industrial robot and service robot exhibition area this year, the robot application exhibition area and the ground unmanned system exhibition area have also been newly established. The four exhibition areas have gathered more than 150 domestic and foreign enterprises and scientific research institutions such as Shenyang Xinsong, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Aerospace, Swiss ABB, Japan FANUC, Yaskawa, and Festo.

FANUC Super Robot M-2000iA/1700L

As a representative of FANUC China, Shanghai FANUC Robotics Co., Ltd. contributed most of the booth to the “Giant Robot” FANUC Robot M-2000iA, a heavy object handling robot.

The M-2000iA series robots are divided into M-2000iA/900L and M-2000iA/1200 series models, which can be selected according to different purposes. According to Fanuc, the series can handle a maximum of 2.3 tons, which can be used to replace the professional lifting device in the car factory. In the past, one ton of heavy objects that two robots needed to coordinate their movements could now be processed by a “big robot”.

At the scene, Fanuc displayed the series of super-large robot M-2000iA/1700L to carry the finished vehicle. The robot has a wide range of motion, with a stroke of up to 6.2 meters in the up and down direction and a handling capacity of 1.7 tons. The huge robotic arm can grip the entire body from the side of the car. This expands the scope of the robot's handling of heavy loads and provides flexibility in responding to changing plant layouts.

Shenyang Xinsong's stage mobile robot

As the leading enterprise in the domestic robot industry, Shenyang Xinsong highlighted the stage mobile robot in this exhibition. The robot participated in the performance of “Beijing Eight Minutes” at the PyeongChang Winter Olympics in 2018.

This is a low-profile two-vehicle linkage AGV (automatic guided transport vehicle). It can flexibly and accurately complete multi-variable path motion such as straight line, side shift, curve, rotation, etc. It can also be used to control the walking path. Multiple AGVs can also be automatically combined to form mobile stages with different load carrying capacities and different sizes.

In addition, Xinsong also exhibited a snake-arm robot with 12 joints and 24+1 degrees of freedom. It has products such as intelligent laser navigation, image technology, and voice interaction.

Gree Robot Band

In the gallery area of ​​the pavilion, a musical performance by a robotic band attracted the attention of many viewers.

This is the product brought by Zhuhai Gree Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd., a wholly-owned robot subsidiary of Gree Electric. The robot band consists of five modules: drum, guitar, bass, keyboard, and carillon. It uses eight GR606 industrial robots, two GRS405 horizontal multi-joint robots and one GRS401 horizontal multi-joint robot. The on-site staff introduced that by programming the robot's motion state and matching the special fixtures, the robot completed the whole song under the guidance of the music teacher.

Haigli Intelligent Equipment Co., Ltd. was established in September 2015. It is mainly engaged in the production and sales of industrial robots and automation equipment. The products cover servo robots, industrial robots, intelligent AGV, warehousing, heat exchanger special machine tools and equipment, and unmanned automated production lines. More than ten fields.

China Aerospace's "Little Xiao Xiao" Automatic Milk Tea Robot

Service robots are still very popular at this year's show. A fully automatic milk tea robot on the China Aerospace Science and Technology Group Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as China Aerospace) booth was surrounded by a group of children.

This two-armed six-dimensional human-automatic drink robot named "Little Xiao Xiao" is a product jointly launched by the 18th Research Institute of China Aerospace First Research Institute and Jiangsu Dianjin Huihai Automation Technology Co., Ltd. It is also the first two-dimensional six-dimensional collaborative humanoid robot used in the commercial field in China.

According to the on-site staff, “Xiaoying Xiaoyan” can make DIY exclusive drinks according to the raw materials in the store, which is not possible with similar products on the market.

Cheng Yuanchao, an engineer with China Aerospace Robotics, told the interface journalist that this fully automatic milk tea beverage robot was developed by the Institute in response to customer needs and will provide more than 1,000 milk tea drinks and ice cream after its launch. “The speed of on-site display has been doubled, and the time to complete a cup of milk tea after listing can be controlled within 1 minute,” he said.

Festo's bionic flying fox

Bionic robots have consistently received the highest level of attention.

The German Festo Group participated in the World Robotics Congress for the third time. The family business founded in 1925 is known for its concept of “bionic learning”. In the past ten years, it has developed a series of influential bionic robots. In the past two robotics conferences, the company exhibited products such as intelligent birds, bionic butterflies, bionic oysters and air jellyfish.

At this year's show, BionicFlyingFox, a new member of the Festo Group's bionic family, completed its Asian debut. At 12 noon on August 15th, the robot flew two rounds on the A210 booth. Due to the restrictions of the venue, the obstacles landed on the first lap.

In the bionic learning network project, flight is a high-frequency topic, and it usually needs to face two major challenges: lightweight and functional integration. The Festo Group has developed the ultra-light aircraft with intelligent motion devices by simulating the unique flight mode of the flying bats.

The two wings of the robot have a width of 228 cm and a body length of 87 cm. The overall weight is only 580 grams. The body is made of specially developed elastic airtight material made of elastic knit fabric and selectively welded metal foil. The honeycomb construction allows it to continue flying with minor damage.

By integrating the onboard electronic board with the external motion tracking system, the robot can perform semi-autonomous flight in a specific space. In flight, it can calculate the wing motion required to perform the planned motion sequence and use it as a basis to optimize flight operations.

Yuki Technology's Laikago

In the pavilion, a robot dog strolling back and forth caught everyone's attention. This is the four-legged robot Laikago (named from the space dog Laika) from Hangzhou Yushu Technology Co., Ltd. (Unitree).

Yu Shu, co-founder of Yushu Technology, told the interface journalist that this four-legged robot is completely self-developed and produced. The whole machine has 12 degrees of freedom, corresponding to 12 motors, and the bionics are good. On non-smooth roads, it can pass steps, stairs, slopes and gravel roads. At the same time, due to the force control of the whole machine, it also has the corresponding flexibility. In the future, similar four-legged robots can be used in security, rescue and disaster relief, home maintenance, scientific research and teaching.

Generally, when standing, Laikago has a length, width and height of 0.56 meters, 0.35 meters and 0.6 meters respectively. The whole machine has 12 high-performance motors with a total instantaneous maximum power of 18KW and a power mass density of 0.8KW/Kg (super running is about 0.45KW/Kg). The three-axis force control of the fuselage during exercise, the maximum tensile force is greater than or equal to 25N (programmable boost).

The robot is fully controlled with 6 degrees of freedom, and the external force received by the robot can be calculated according to the current output torque of the 12 joints of the robot, thereby achieving the follow-up of the external force. And it has the ability to adapt to external shock interference within a certain amplitude.

Yushu Technology said on the official website that "Laikago does not currently use any artificial intelligence related AI programs."

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Samsung issued the first 5G baseband that fully complies with the new standard, and produced at the end of 2018

Compared with the 4G era, the 5G era is a new era; major 5G related manufacturers are pushing ahead to meet the 5G era. As far as the 5G terminal side is concerned, there are already Qualcomm, Huawei, Samsung, Intel and other vendors working on 5G baseband.

According to reports, on August 15th, Samsung announced on the official website that it has developed the industry's first 5G baseband - Exynos Modem 5100, which fully complies with the latest standards of the 5G new air interface of the 15th edition of the 3GPP (3rd Generation Partnership Project). The baseband is based on a 10 nm process and is compatible with 2G, 3G and 4G.

Specifically, the Exynos Modem 5100 supports the Sub-6GHz band and the millimeter wave band under the 3GPP 5G standard, and supports existing frequency bands such as 2G GSM / CDMA, 3G WCDMA, TD-SCDMA, HSPA and 4G LTE. Among them, in the Sub-6GHz 5G band, it can achieve a download speed of up to 2Gps; in the millimeter wave band, it can reach a download speed of up to 6Gps. In addition, the Exynos Modem 5100 is also able to guarantee download speeds of up to 1.6Gps on 4G networks.

The 5G terminal prototype of the Exynos Modem 5100 modem has successfully completed the OTA 5G-NR data transmission test. Since this test simulates the real-world cellular network, Samsung believes that this will accelerate the commercialization of 5G; Samsung has also cooperated with a group of global operators and partners for 5G cooperation.

In addition to being used in mobile devices, Samsung said the Exynos Modem 5100 can also be used for IoT, high-resolution video, real-time A I and autopilot.

Regarding the specific time available, Samsung said consumers can use the product by the end of 2018, and the Exynos Modem 5100 will also be offered with RFIC, Envelope Tracking (ET) and Power Management IC solutions.

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How is the smart watch waterproof? Now let's analyze it.

Waterproofing has always been a consumer electronics device with a call function. Because of the call function, many components such as speakers, MICs and SIM cards cannot be sealed, and unlike industrial mobile phones, the appearance of a large number of soft rubber and steel plates needs to be maintained. It is the same as the normal non-waterproof appearance, normal and beautiful.

Directly wearing a small genius phone watch Z5 swimming

In the life scene, especially for children, the children's telephone watch industry is particularly important for product waterproofing requirements. Because the children are active and curious, there are always hands that can't be washed every day, plus sweating, washing hands, swimming, rain and snow, so the wrists are exposed to water every day. If the waterproof level is not enough, it is very easy because the watch is soaked in water and caught in a vicious cycle of re-purchasing the watch.

2 years ago, Xiaotian had IPX7 anti-bubble technology.
In all the children's phone watch brands, the waterproof of the small genius phone watch is undoubtedly the best. According to the small genius official website, all the small genius products that are on sale support IPX7 or higher waterproofing. From the IP waterproof standard (Ingress Protection Rating) of electronic products, whether the waterproof function index can reach IPx7 can be said to be an important watershed. IPX5 and IPX6 can only be splash-proof. Only IPX7 starts to prevent water soaking. It can be used normally in normal temperature water of 1 m depth for 30 minutes.

Little genius phone watch Z5 - swimming class waterproof

As early as 2016, the small genius phone watch Y02 was the first in the industry to support IPx7 waterproof. At that time, the Apple iPhone 7 that supported IPX7 waterproofing was not released yet. In 2017, the waterproof technology of the small genius phone watch again. Further, Z3's waterproof can directly swim, directly to IP waterproof level - IPX8, waterproof to 20 meters (GB / T 30106-2013 (ISO 22810: 2010 IDT).

The model Z2 also continued the swim-grade waterproofing. The newly released genius phone watch Z5 with a 5 megapixel camera also maintains the highest level of the entire children's phone watch and mobile phone industry - swim-grade waterproof.

Why is waterproofing more difficult after adding a camera?
In terms of waterproof difficulty, because the space inside the watch is small, the space for adding a camera to the super-advanced waterproof is smaller, and it is also considered to add the position of the camera in swimming and high water pressure. Strength problem.

Z5 camera parameters

So in the outermost layer of the small genius phone watch Z5 camera has a sapphire protective lens, Mohs hardness of 9 (the hardest natural material of the earth is a diamond with a Mohs hardness of 10). In my opinion, in addition to scratch resistance and wear resistance in daily life, it can also solve the problem of sealing and structural strength of the camera when there is water.

The protective lens on the Z5 camera is sapphire

Moreover, it is a very difficult thing to make swimming-grade waterproofing for a children's phone watch. Swimming-grade waterproofing is the exclusive technology of small genius. Many people want to know its technical principles and secrets.

Here, the author will reveal the technical principles. Home, children's phone watch, because there are a lot more functions than ordinary watches, so there are a lot of necessary openings, in principle, it has nothing to do with the watch, it is very similar to the waterproof of the smart phone: for example, there is a microphone (MIC) The opening of the speaker, the SIM card slot, etc., and because of the lithium battery, there is an opening to ensure thermal expansion and contraction, and the internal and external space of the product ensures that the air pressure can be balanced.

In the swimming-grade waterproof technology, Xiaotian was perfectly mastered in application last year. In the first genius of the genius to support swimming-grade waterproofing products - Z3, it solved a variety of industry problems.

To achieve swimming-grade waterproofing, the industry problems that need to be solved
(1) Components such as speakers and MICs need to be able to talk, transmit sound, and be highly waterproof. This requires new high-grade waterproof components.

(2) In the middle of various structural parts such as camera, screen, etc., it is necessary to seal with high waterproof glue, and at the same time ensure that the seal is not crushed by high water pressure.

(3) Because the battery will bring different temperature inside the body, the air in the body will expand and contract. This requires the balance of air pressure between the inside and the outside of the product. At the same time, it is necessary to make the swimming level waterproof. Otherwise, the product will not be air pressure. Balance the damaged structure.

(4) The place where the telephone card is installed and the body must be made of a high waterproof structure to ensure waterproofing under high water pressure.

(5) To make swimming-grade waterproof electronic products, before the manufacturing and tailoring, you need various tests, tests, and finally ensure that the final large-volume products can achieve high waterproofing, consider customizing various manufacturing equipment, instruments and adding each The process is costly and complicated.

High waterproof speaker

Only after solving these problems, Z5 can principlely achieve swimming-grade waterproofing. This is still a very rough principle statistics. It is estimated that there are more problems to solve, such as the small genius phone watch Z5 because it is using 4G full Netcom. The platform solution, the size and number of components is sharply increased compared to the ordinary 2G platform, leaving room for other things to be very small, and to consider some issues such as heat dissipation.

After taking it out of the water, there is no video call.

to sum up
Communication 4G electronic products that can talk, waterproof can achieve a new height of swimming, especially the small genius phone watch Z5 in addition to having a camera, but also to achieve a beautiful appearance, clear call, loud voice, and do To the thinnest 14.2mm thickness in the 4G telephone watch, it can be said that a lot of invisible work has been done on the integration and miniaturization of the internal components of the product. This also shows that as a flagship product of the industry, the small genius telephone watch Z5 is single. Undoubtedly the best in terms of hardware and technology.

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VR machine has nearly 200 million financing for Pico, the top-selling Pico in China, with an annual sales of 100,000 units.

Pico completed the 167.5 million A round of financing, and the annual sales volume of VR integrated machines is about 100,000 units.

Recently, Pico completed the A round of financing, which is the first public financing since Pico was established in 2015. It is reported that Pico's financing scale is 167.5 million yuan, led by Guangfa Ganhe and Guangfa Xinde, and Qingdao Jufeng Kechuang and others voted. It is reported that in the past year, the sales volume of the Pico all-in-one machine was about 100,000 units, and the sales of the C-end and the B-end were almost half of each.

VRPinea exclusive comment: I heard that Pico Little Monster 2 is about to be released today!

Google Chrome browser full-featured support Daydream head display

Today, Google announced that Chrome for Android will usher in updates and bring relevant VR support to Daydream Headset. Android phone users only need to update their Chrome app, and then launch the browser in the header. Lenovo Mirage Solo users will need to download and install the Chrome app in the Daydream app store.

VRPinea exclusive comment: It is very convenient for Android mobile phone users.

Windows 10 RS5 brings sharing features such as Miracast to HoloLens

The latest preview of Microsoft HoloLens is equipped with new sharing features, including support for the Miracast protocol. The latest preview version of Windows 10 April2018 Update, Insider Preview RS5, now supports Miracast. This can help HoloLens users map views to nearby Surface devices, or TVs and monitors equipped with Microsoft display adapters. To activate this feature, the user can select "Connect" from the "Start" menu and select the target device.

VRPinea exclusive comment: This is most likely the last update of HoloLens before the listing in 2019.

Source code leaks Magic Leap One's FOV, memory, battery life, storage capacity and more

Last week, Magic Leap published information about Lumin OS and other matters, but did not include hardware information at the time. However, a few days ago, developers familiar with the source code published more details about the actual operation of Magic Leap One and found more information about Magic Leap One. Among them is MagicLeap One's FOV, memory, battery life, storage capacity and other information.

VRPinea exclusive comment: I have to say that the programmer is really powerful.

Former Sony Magic Lab leader Richard Marks joins Google, or will participate in the development of the game platform

According to VentureBeat, Richard Marks, a former senior researcher at Sony and MagicLab, who is involved in the development of PSVR and PS Move controllers, left Sony to join Google. So far we don't know what role RichardMarks will take on Google, but it's clear that Google is pushing and looking for game-focused talent, and it's likely that a big project is being brewed.

VRPinea exclusive comment: There may be a big game born.

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Me too next, how women in Silicon Valley technology circle respond to industries such as gender discrimination

 For women, the courage to point out sexual harassment is only the first step. Now, Silicon Valley elite women hope to use their own strength and community mutual help to change the more common gender discrimination and workplace barriers they face in the workplace.

As a Silicon Valley female elite, Zhang Renhui, vice president of LinkedIn Engineering, publicly shared his story in a recent speech about the setbacks and dilemmas encountered in his work. For example, she mentioned that when she first entered the technology industry, she was often the only woman in the conference room. In order to integrate into the male-dominated work environment, she began to observe and imitate the behaviors of male colleagues, but she became more and more unhappy and even considered Give up.

Considering that she is very good, she has worked in the technology industry for nearly 20 years. She was previously the vice president of Yahoo Engineering and the chief technology officer of Tinder. Her attitude and practice in the face of setbacks are very inspiring for many young women in the workplace.

"At that time, I looked at myself in the mirror and found that I didn't know myself. I think I have to recognize who I am and admit that I am different from other male colleagues. In the beginning, it made me I don't feel very comfortable, but I told myself that this is me. Later I found out that being yourself is a source of happiness and makes my workplace more sustainable." Zhang Renhui said.

Zhang Renhui, Vice President of LinkedIn Engineering. Hector Martinez shooting

Her presentation was at the EDGE 2018 Empowerment, Development, Growth, Enjoyment. The conference was held on July 29 by the non-profit organization Silicon Valley Career Women (SVCW). The organization was held at the Computer History Museum in the Southern Silicon Valley. A number of senior technology practitioners from companies such as LinkedIn and Google shared their stories and experiences with the intention of helping hundreds of participants present in the workplace. The challenge of life.

“This conference is a tradition of SVCW. The difference between our conference and other conferences is that participants and speakers can have deep interactions. We encourage everyone to take the initiative to ask their own questions and express their opinions. This is also a good one. The opportunity to find a career tutor,” said Cao Qian, chairman and founder of SVCW.

Cao Qian, Chairman and Founder of SVCW. Shinepainter studio shooting

Zhang Renhui is indeed like a mentor, giving specific experience to face challenges - bravely building lofty ideals, embracing all difficulties and accepting the true self.

Google Engineering Manager Xu Guangyu provides more specific suggestions, such as staying energetic, setting aside enough time for personal reflection and proper rest; finding your own strengths, interests and shortcomings, targeting your strengths and solving problems. Short board and so on.

Around 2014, the media, non-profit organizations, investors and other parties demanded that technology giants publish employment-related data. Under pressure from various sources, companies such as Google, Yahoo, Facebook, and Twitter have announced employment information for women and ethnic minorities. From the data of employment, job level and other data, white males dominate the Silicon Valley technology circle.

Soon after, companies such as Intel, Apple, and Google announced that they would invest hundreds of millions of dollars to improve the working environment and atmosphere, making the company more diverse and inclusive. Specific measures include a more objective and quantifiable approach to recruitment and promotion, development of women and minority support organizations within the company, and funding of non-profit organizations that target women and minorities.

From the data point of view, some companies have made progress. According to a survey by a German data company, the proportion of female employees in Facebook was 35% in 2017, with 19% in technical positions, both of which were 3% higher than in 2015. The proportion of female employees in Google is 31%, of which technical posts account for 20%, an increase of 1% and 2% respectively compared with two years ago.

However, the female technology practitioners who are in it feel that these measures are difficult to solve the problem fundamentally.

Xu Guangyu believes that large companies began to improve the working environment of female employees, not to help the disadvantaged groups, but to discover the commercial value of female employees in the team.

“They found that women are in the team and will do a better job. This is a big change in concept. Every company has been doing this in the last three or four years (improving the female working environment), but they are not Knowing how to do it, (practices and ideas) is a bit out of touch. Many of the promotion criteria from the bottom are still more conducive to men, such as job-oriented promotion standards, not looking at the process. These standards look very objective, but many girls The time to do is to support the team, if there is no female support, those people can't go up."

Google Engineering Manager Xu Guangyu. Shinepainter studio shooting

In addition, how to adapt to the male-dominated technology circle still plagues most working women. Cao Qian feels that such problems are more serious in startups. Her current full-time job is a software engineer at the startup Argo AI, who worked for Microsoft for nearly five years.

She believes that in a startup with a more disproportionate ratio of males and females, male colleagues trust and respect each other's views and abilities, and there are more opportunities for communication between the same sex, such as walking after a meal. Male colleagues build trusting relationships in these ways, and women do not have these opportunities. If you don't actively seek more communication opportunities, women can easily be isolated in the company.

“How to integrate into this environment without changing yourself, like a brother and a male colleague, these challenges happen every day around me. The diversification of big companies is better, (for women) challenges Relatively few, because you need to do very specific tasks, not take risks. In a startup, many times you have to build something from scratch, you have to spend more time to convince all Male members come to respect your ideas, these are bigger challenges." Cao Qian said.

Cao Qian's motivation to set up SVCW comes from personal experience. Last year, when she had just given birth, she returned to Microsoft after taking maternity leave and found that her work life has changed a lot. At home, in order to take care of her children, it is difficult for her to concentrate on her work; at work, the boss does not assign important items to her.

"The boss gave me a high evaluation before the maternity leave. I thought I would be promoted. After the maternity leave, I asked the boss if there was any promotion. My boss said that you have not come to work for so long, how can you I was promoted. I felt that my contribution was not recognized. These changes made me want to ask career mom how to successfully pass this stage, so I launched the first event."

Through this event, Cao Qian found that many people faced the same problem. After the meeting, the feedback from the event was very positive. So she decided to register a non-profit organization and expand the service target after the second event. To women in all ages.

Finding a mentor for women in Silicon Valley is one of SVCW's key projects. This program is free to everyone, data-oriented, and matches the instructor based on each person's personal information. At present, the resources of the instructors are scarce, with about 2 or 30 people, and about 300 students enrolled.

Part of the SVCW. Hector Martinez shooting

Xu Guangyu is also one of the mentor of this project. “I feel that women should use our social interests and abilities to form an interactive team or group to improve career success.”

Many female participants present at the scene resonated with the speaker's story. Cici (a pseudonym), a girl who is an activity planning manager at a startup that specializes in information governance, said that she felt empathy with Zhang Renhui's experience. When she first entered the company, In order to integrate into the male-dominated environment, we will also consciously imitate the style and manner in which the opposite sex colleagues speak. Li (a pseudonym), a senior software engineer at a startup company, said that she had experienced situations in which she was ignored by a white male colleague at the meeting, and her speech was interrupted. The response provided by Xu Guangyu made her feel very useful. Participants asked the speaker. Hector Martinez shoots.

In addition, there are many male participants at the event. Cao Qian said that every time SVCW organizes an event, there will be men. “They also have female colleagues. They want to know what women’s problems are and what kind of help men need to help them to work together better. Some people have become our volunteers after participating in our activities and have participated in the development of us. a web app."

Cao Qian said that the purpose of organizing such activities is to hope that women with successful experiences can use their personal experiences to inspire participants, and share effective methods for dealing with specific problems so that everyone can learn directly and practice through continuous practice. These methods are applied to your work and life.

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