Do you think that Tencent will only play games? The robot companies it invests in are all "dark horses." When it comes to Tencent, the user's first reaction is the various hot and exciting games of his family, as well as the social software that indulges them every day. But what many people don't understand is that it has been laid out in multiple areas. According to relevant statistics, exaggeration, it is said that Tencent's monthly average of “buy†10 companies in 2017 is amazing and its investment rhythm is so close.
In the field of hardware, Tencent favors robot companies
According to Tencent's investment map in 2017, Tencent’s investment in the top three industries are: cultural entertainment, corporate services, and hardware. In the field of hardware, Tencent is most interested in investing in robot companies. The hardware sector accounted for 11% of the total number of investment companies in Tencent in 2017, of which 5 were robot startups. Recently, foreign media sources revealed that Tencent has participated in Round A financing of California's food delivery robot company Marble. MarbleA raised a total of US$10 million in rounds of funding. In addition to Tencent, there are hardware incubators Lemnos, venture capital funds CrunchFund and Maven involved in the investment.
It is understood that Marble Food Delivery Robot Co., Ltd. has launched an automatic meal delivery robot in cooperation with the US Review Website in April of last year, and later announced that it has reached a cooperation with DoorDash, a takeout company. Currently, Marble has experimented with local eateries in San Francisco. The user's order will be placed in the robot's warehouse and the access code will be used to open the warehouse after the robot arrives at the destination.
For the original intention of founding the company, Matt Delaney, co-founder and CEO of Marble, said, “The current delivery method is still very conservative. We need to move toward a more efficient and sustainable supply chain model. It can solve troublesome logistical pain points such as parcel thefts, chargebacks and delivery failures, etc. While autopilot cars are still commercialized for many years, we are excited to see that our robots have reshaped this new economy. Short-term possibility."
â–² Marble food delivery robot (Source: Phoenix Technology)
Tencent's investment map in the field of robots in the second half of last year seems to present a pattern of "flowering everywhere." The following is a summary of Tencent’s investment in robotics in 2017:
On August 14, 2017, Leju Robot won Tencent A round of 50 million yuan in financing;
On October 26, 2017, Canadian intelligent robot company KindredSystems was awarded a $28 million investment by Tencent;
On October 31, 2017, California Education Robotics Corporation WonderWorkshop received a $41 million Series C round of funding, with Tencent participating.
On November 6, 2017, Ganker "Artisan Club" fighting robots R & D manufacturers won tens of millions of A round of financing, Tencent investment;
On November 16, 2017, Youyi will win Tencent’s US$40 million Series C financing;
On November 20, 2017, A-round financing of Cloud Computing Technology, a commercial robot company, was led by Tencent.
Two of the above are well-known domestic robot companies: Le Ju and Youyi. Their robotic products have been shown on large spring evenings to showcase the talent of service-oriented humanoid robots. At present, both Lok robot and Youbiao robot have entered the homes of many people and become accompany with their children's growth. CloudScience is a large-screen interactive robot in the main commercial scene, used in hotels, government service halls and other places. The overseas robotics companies KindredSystems, WonderWorkshop, and Ganker “Crafters†all include educational programmable robots, fighting robots, and robotic arm types. Taken together, the number of robot companies Tencent has invested in is not very large, but it seems to be more like rain. Most companies of the robot subdivision type are involved in investment, and investment in North America is very high. active. Moreover, some robot companies have become popular with users, occupying a certain market share, such as excellent selection and music gathering, while others are rich in application scenarios and have the potential to become “dark horsesâ€.
Tencent establishes robot laboratory, robot is the carrier between virtual and reality
On March 15th this year, Tencent announced that it will establish RoboticsX, a robotics laboratory that includes computer vision recognition, speech recognition, natural language processing, and machine learning. In terms of applications, Tencent aims at social AI, game AI, content AI, and platform AI. These are inextricably linked with Tencent's main business.
According to Tencent vice president Yao Xing, RoboticsX and AILab belong to the Tencent Technology Engineering Group (TEG). In the future, RoboticsX and AILab will become the twin foundation support departments of Tencent's AI industry. According to a new science and technology newspaper, Tencent Robot Lab "RoboticsX" will be led by Microsoft Research (MSR) chief researcher and research manager Zhang Zhengyou who has left the company for 20 years and will join RoboticsX, a robotics laboratory just established by Tencent.
Tencent’s robotic laboratory, together with its active layout in the robotics field in the past year, has set off BAT in the robotics field. In January of this year, Baidu Research Institute announced the establishment of “Business Intelligence Lab†and “Robots and Autopilot Labsâ€. At the same time, three world-class scientists in the field of artificial intelligence Kenneth Ward Church, Yan Jun, and Xiong Hui also joined Baidu Research Institute. In October of last year, Alibaba announced the formation of a “Damo Houseâ€, an entity that will host the “NASA Planâ€, and is positioned to conduct basic science and research on subversive technological innovation.
â–² Tencent Vice President Yao Xing (Source: Phoenix Technology)
As to why this time point was chosen to set up the Tencent Robotics Laboratory, Tencent vice president Yao Xing said that artificial intelligence will eventually return to the real world, and this requires a carrier to connect. "Computers in the Internet age, smart phones in the mobile Internet, and carriers in the era of artificial intelligence may be robots."
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