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Chapter 726 726: Embodied Intelligence

The outsourcing mechanisms have developed to the point where various companies have taken it to a new level.The more famous case is what Little Green Book did – having employees sign a contract with one company while the equity incentives were promised by another company.

This way, when firing employees, they don't have to issue the promised equity incentives.

Because the company that gives the incentives and the one that pays the salary are not the same.

Previously, Little Green Book used this rule to fire an employee without giving the promised equity incentives.

After the employee took the company to court, the court ruled that Little Green Book must compensate the employee.

However, Little Green Book outright opposed this ruling, arguing that the company responsible for issuing incentives was registered in Hong Kong Island, and mainland courts had no authority to enforce the judgment.

In contrast, Yiyang System's companies now basically do not use outsourcing.

If Chen Yiyang were to use this point to attack Ugly Group, they would really have no way to retaliate.

"Let's do it this way," Chen Yiyang agreed to Liu Xiaoyue's proposal.

After dealing with Yiyang Flash Sale's matters, Chen Yiyang received an invitation from Wang Xingxing to visit Yushu.

"The main reason for inviting you this time is to discuss the future development direction of Yushu with you."

The new year is approaching, and Yushu must also consider its development direction for the coming year.

Actually, Chen Yiyang is quite satisfied with Yushu's current development model.

Yushu's current annual revenue exceeds a billion, with five consecutive years of profitability and business coverage in 50% of the global nations.

In today's industry, where burning money is rampant and many emphasize that profitability is not a current mission, Yushu stands out in the robot industry.

Especially in the humanoid robot industry, many companies are still at the presentation stage, and there are only a few who actually produce products.

But Yushu, from the four-legged robot series to humanoid robots, proceeds very pragmatically and solidly, with little embellishment.

For this, Time magazine commented on Yushu: Yushu's R1 robot is an outstanding representation of the humanoid robots imagined in science fiction, not a concept, not a demo, but a truly marketable, purchasable, and usable product.

However, Wang Xingxing holds a different view and is not as optimistic as Chen Yiyang.

"The current business situation of Yushu looks pretty good, but we are at a disadvantage in some major strategies for the future."

"Specifically, in what aspects?" Chen Yiyang asked.

"Mainly in embodied intelligence. If Yushu doesn't have a partner developing large AI models to help with embodied intelligence development,

once the embodied intelligence and key components of humanoid robots mature, Yushu will face intense competition from the big companies."

After hearing Wang Xingxing, Chen Yiyang understood the concerns Yushu currently has.

One is the maturation period of humanoid robot technology.

Although Yushu can now achieve annual profitability and produce mature humanoid robots,

Yushu doesn't have much advantage in technical reserves and large-scale mass production capabilities.

Especially in technical reserves.

Many big companies have invested in building their humanoid robot companies. Most of these companies focus on researching and validating technology without planning short-term commercial production.

Because they are backed by big firms and aren't short of money.

These companies are somewhat like the supreme realms in cultivation novels, waiting for the path to immortality to open.

Normally inconspicuous, but once the market matures,

these companies will immediately enter the market, using their technology and substantial backing to capture the market.

In terms of hardware, Chen Yiyang has no good solutions either.

Because the current environment ensures that once hardware technology matures, the related tech will inevitably spread.

And Yushu cannot manufacture many of the necessary robot hardware themselves; it must be tackled by downstream manufacturers.

Once they've developed it, they're bound to want to make more money and won't just supply to a single manufacturer.

"So what exactly is embodied intelligence?" Chen Yiyang then asked.

"Embodied intelligence is closely related to the current popular large language models, multimodal models, etc., in terms of technology,"

Wang Xingxing explained to Chen Yiyang, "The emergence of humanoid robots is due to people's anticipation of having a type of robot that can completely replace humans in tedious and repetitive work.

But the trouble with humanoid robots lies here. If they can only perform fixed actions in specific scenarios, then humanoid robots are unnecessary.

So, humanoid robots must be able to perform different actions in various scenarios, just like a real person."

Chen Yiyang understood what Wang Xingxing meant.

Because of the special expectations humans have for humanoid robots, humanoid robots must possess intelligence.

And currently, only large AI models can achieve this.

The application of large AI models to humanoid robots is embodied intelligence.

Embodied intelligence can give humanoid robots semantic understanding and logical reasoning capabilities, multimodal perception, and decision-making ability.

Making humanoid robots more human-like.

But compared to pure hardware, this aspect is even more challenging.

Yushu doesn't even have the entry-level qualification for research in this area because it requires AI model companies to specifically allocate a department for in-depth research.

Can DeepSeek do it?

DeepSeek doesn't seem viable either.

The first thought that crossed Chen Yiyang's mind after hearing was DeepSeek.

But DeepSeek can only provide a foundation and platform, further development requires forming a dedicated specialized team.

"Alright then." Chen Yiyang thought for a long time and felt that he would have to put up the money to create a new company to enter the field.

If the investment isn't made now, in the future, companies with mature embodied intelligence will hold them at ransom.

Then not only will more money be required, but there will also be competition from these companies' own robots.

This is also why Wang Xingxing approached Chen Yiyang, for this purpose.

"However, we still have a lot of potential to tap into with four-legged robots."

Seeing Chen Yiyang agree to invest in embodied intelligence, Wang Xingxing felt relieved and prepared to share some good news with Chen Yiyang.

"In the field of warfare?" Chen Yiyang asked.

Yushu's four-legged robots have been sold to Europe and transformed into weapons, a business they've been doing for years.

But given the current situation, the profits are dwindling.

Mainly because the old Europe no longer has funds.

"No, in the service sector," Wang Xingxing said, "We are preparing to develop a four-legged robot that can replace guide dogs, and there has been some small progress."

This indeed is a big market. Chen Yiyang felt this direction was promising.

There are seventeen million blind people nationwide, yet the number of guide dogs doesn't exceed four hundred.

As such, four-legged guide robots clearly have a vast market.