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Chapter 101 The much-anticipated press conference

Chapter 103 The much-anticipated press conference

As time goes by, September comes to an end, October arrives as scheduled, and the one-week National Day holiday officially begins.

·The countdown to the product launch of Yuanjie Intelligent Control has also entered the last two days. Now people from outside the city have come to Jianing City, including many people from the technology industry, the media industry, the investment industry, etc.

 Jianing City also attaches great importance to this. The top leader Wu Hongsheng has specially arranged relevant work for Metaverse Intelligent Control’s new product launch conference to ensure that there will be no negative news in Jianing City during the National Day holiday and the conference.

  This city was originally not well-known nationwide, but because Yuanjie Intelligent Control has become well-known, Jianing City's popularity has also become higher and higher.

The most powerful thing in Jianing City now is the high-tech company Yuanjie Intelligent Control.

 This press conference attracted so many celebrities from all walks of life and attracted so much attention, especially so many media. Wu Hongsheng did not want Jianing City to become famous across the country for negative news like before.

  He pays special attention to matters related to Yuanjie Intelligent Control.

 No, anyone in Wu Hongsheng's position would have given him the same attention.

 If nothing else, in the first half of this year, Yuanjie Intelligent Control contributed 10.5 billion in fiscal revenue. This figure goes without saying.

 Out of the 10.5 billion yuan in tax revenue, excluding the part taken by the national treasury and the part taken by the province, 3.17 billion yuan remains in Jianing City.

Jianing City’s public fiscal revenue increased significantly in the first half of the year, reaching 14.798 billion yuan, an increase of +66.50% compared with the first half of last year. This exaggerated growth rate is unparalleled nationwide.

  This year’s half-year tax revenue is equivalent to about 75% of last year’s full-year tax revenue.

· Yuanjie Intelligent Control is now the absolute largest super taxpayer in Jianing City, and its tax contribution in the first half of the year accounted for more than one-fifth.

 Furthermore, the direct or indirect driving effect of Yuanjie Intelligent Control on the economy of Jianing City has further promoted the increase of other taxes.

 In addition, Lu An has also become the largest individual taxpayer in Jianing City.

 The company paid its first dividend in the first half of the year. Lu An received 8.15 billion in proportion to its shareholding. This dividend was subject to a 20% dividend tax, which was 1.63 billion.

 However, not all of this dividend tax belongs to the local government of Jianing City. The national treasury will collect 60%, which is 978 million yuan, and the remaining 652 million yuan will be redistributed to the local government. Then the province will collect 15% of it, which is 97.8 million yuan, and the remaining 554 million yuan or so will go to the Jianing City Finance and County Finance.

 Whether it is the company's corporate tax of 10.5 billion, or Lu An's personal tax of more than 500 million, he is the tax daddy of Jianing City, so how can he not pay attention to it.

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 Two days later, Saturday, October 3rd.

Today is a day that attracts the attention of many people in the technology and investment circles. The much-anticipated Metaverse Intelligent Control product launch conference arrives as scheduled today.

  At around 10 a.m., the product launch conference started on time.

                                                                                                                                                                
     When Lu An appeared at the press conference, many netizens who watched the live broadcast online began to comment on his appearance.

 Humbling eyes, tall body, as straight as a pine tree, crisp and capable short hair, and an angular jaw line make him a handsome face with great tension.

Netizens who watched the press conference in the live broadcast room gave unanimous comments to Lu An. He is currently the most handsome boss in the domestic technology circle, and he is also the youngest.

Offstage, the media’s guns and cannons have already been set up, and the flashes of the cameras are like a restless constellation of stars, flashing continuously, one after another.

  The offline audience includes technology practitioners, investors, technology bloggers, and amateurs in the industry. In the online live broadcast room, the eyes of netizens from all walks of life are focused here through countless screens.

 Lu An did not speak immediately. He turned slightly sideways and cast his gaze towards the deep shadow behind the stage.

 At this time, everyone's eyes are focused on the stage.

 After a moment, Lu An's voice flowed out through the top-level surround sound system. His voice was clear and penetrating, instantly suppressing all the subtle noise in the scene.

  "We always like to talk about the future and how technology will change the world. But real change often starts with the most ordinary needs."

 Lu An paused, looked across the audience, and then said: "It starts with a mouthful of hot rice that a tired person longs for when he returns home, it starts with the care and concern around his parents when they are old, and it starts with every moment when a child grows up and needs companionship but is missed."

 At this time, Lu An raised his hand and pointed to the shadow behind the afternoon in a concise and powerful movement: "The answer to Yuanjie's intelligent control is here."

As soon as he finished speaking, everyone at the scene focused their attention on where Lu An was pointing, and saw the shadow fading away like the tide.

 "This is the Xiaoyuan robot?"

 An audience member in the front row subconsciously adjusted his glasses and leaned forward slightly.

 The shadows faded, and soft white light fell from above, outlining a standing figure. It was the first-generation housekeeping service robot of Metaverse Intelligent Control - Xiaoyuan Robot.

 It is 1.68 meters tall, with smooth and gentle lines, without any sharp edges or mechanical coldness.

  It shows a delicate texture under the light. Its "face" design is minimalist, with only a soft curved light screen strip.

  In order to avoid the uncanny valley effect, we did not deliberately imitate human facial features.

When people present saw its "eyes", they couldn't help but think of the animated movie "Super Marines" that was released last year. Its eyes [(●—●)] are very much like Baymax in the movie.

  There are blue eyes in the black curved screen. There is no specially designed mouth or nose on the face. Rich and changeable expression elements of joy, anger, sorrow and joy can be presented only through the eyes.

 This design style is obviously more relaxed and cute, making people look non-aggressive and not afraid.

 The exterior coating of Xiaoyuan robot is mainly pure white, coordinated with black. The limbs are mainly white, and the joints are black. There is a touch screen slightly smaller than a tablet on the chest, which blends perfectly with the black tone when the screen is idle.

At this time, the Xiaoyuan robot walked towards Lu An in the middle of the stage. There was no buzzing or stiffness in the joints when walking.

 The most important thing is that every step it takes when walking is so natural and smooth, which surprised everyone in the audience. The smooth maneuverability and balance it displays are simply amazing.

 At this moment, there was an irrepressible wave of exclamation in the audience, as well as the sound of continuous shutter shooting.

 The number of viewers in the live broadcast room is also soaring rapidly, and the barrage "666" has begun to flood the screen.

 The Xiaoyuan robot came to the middle of the stage and stood quietly next to Lu An. The latter's eyes fell on it. Without any unnecessary movement, Lu An raised his right hand and his index finger slightly traced an almost invisible arc in front of it, a preset, non-contact start command.

The light band on the head of the Xiaoyuan robot instantly turned to a soft, warm white, and it turned to Lu An extremely naturally. Its movements were as smooth as a human turning its head, without any sense of mechanical frustration.

  Next, Lu An began to introduce the Xiaoyuan robot.

   "The main material of its body is woven from carbon nanotube composite materials. Under its shell, by precisely controlling the current stimulation of each fiber bundle, it achieves fine tension control and compliance similar to biological muscles."

   "What does it mean to have "passive compliance"? That is, it can quickly and promptly relieve force when encountering unexpected resistance, such as a collision with the human body."

“The skeleton structure uses a high-strength lightweight alloy as the main frame, and the joint joints are designed with flexible joints. The interior is filled with fluid materials with damping properties, which absorbs impacts and provides a range of motion and buffering capacity close to that of human joints.”

 “These materials and designs make it possible to The movements of the Xiaoyuan robot are extremely quiet, energy-efficient, and have an excellent balance of strength and flexibility. No one has any doubts about what Lu An said, because seeing is believing. The performance of the Xiaoyuan robot when it walked to the middle of the stage is the best endorsement of Lu An's words.

 Next, Lu An began to introduce another major technical highlight of Xiaoyuan Robot: the multi-modal environment perception fusion system.

Lu An looked at the Xiaoyuan robot and said calmly: "Visually, it has a high-resolution visible light and depth-sensing stereo camera. The low-light infrared imaging module combines synchronous positioning and map construction technology to build and update a 3D map of the environment in real time."

"In terms of touch, the distributed electronic skin covering the whole body is composed of a flexible piezoelectric sensor array. It is composed of an array of arrays and temperature sensors. It can not only sense pressure distribution, material texture, and temperature changes, but also recognize subtle tactile patterns, such as handshake strength, touching, etc. "In terms of hearing, the microphone array picks up sounds 360 degrees and is equipped with advanced noise reduction algorithms. It supports far-field speech recognition, accurately locates sound sources, and distinguishes environmental noise from instructions and calls for help."

"In terms of smell or taste, this is exclusive to the kitchen. The micro gas chromatograph and mass spectrometer it carries are used to identify the freshness of ingredients, detect gas leaks, and smoke. The high-precision chemical sensor array monitors the concentration of food flavor substances in real time during the cooking process to assist in seasoning decisions." Posture and motion status. "

  "All sensor data streams are imported into the central processor in real time for feature extraction, target recognition, scene understanding, etc. Examples of scene understanding include identifying elderly people who have fallen, children crying, kitchen oil pans overheating, etc."

  The majority of netizens who are not professionals did not understand what they heard, and only felt that the Xiaoyuan robot used a lot of high technology.

Practitioners in the technology circle were all amazed and even shocked when they heard this. As long as Lu An didn't brag, the technological content of this robot would lead the world by leaps and bounds.

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  (End of this chapter)