【finance.sina.com.cn】The robot is the girlfriend of male otaku? Not exactly, rampant capital may be involved!

A beautiful woman robot is the girlfriend of male otaku from University of Science and Technology of China (USTC)? Not exactly, capital acquired by means of raising placards and private placement may be involved in it?

I believe that many friends brushed a woman robot named “Jiajia” from USTC in their circle of friends of WeChat recently. In the morning of April 15^th, USTC formally launched the “first robot with unique interactive experience”. Her appearance is as follows.

On April 12^th, Tongling Trinity Technology Co., Ltd (stock code: 600520), a listed company in Anhui Province, published the scheme for private placement to raise fund of RMB 770 million yuan at the price of RMB 18.19 yuan/share or more from Goocoo Group owned by Yuan Qihong, the actual controller, of which RMB 250 million yuan will be invested in R&D of intelligent robot and its industrialization projects, as well as the projects of Goocoo Intelligent Robotics Research Center.

As for Jiajia robot, here is the story about the relationship of USTC, Goocoo robot and Tongling Trinity Technology. After the robot show, there may be the grand chessboard to pursue robot industrialization and capital operation of listed companies.

Past life of woman robot

Jiajia is the third generation of “Kejia” interactive robot series, intelligent service robots independently developed by USTC. In 2014 Brazil ROBOCUP, “Kejia” interactive robot won the champion of the intelligent service robot contest for the first time, which is considered to be the “landmark that R&D of service robots has made a historic breakthrough in China”.

In addition to her beautiful appearance, what else can Jiajia do? You can imagine her as live-action Siri, speaking with facial expressions and actions. Besides presiding over large exhibitions and commercial shows as well as tour description, she is also able to receive guests as a baby-sister, to serve drinks, and to prevent the old man against falling down. At present, “Jiajia” robot successively served as the host for the first “Spring Festival Gala of Global Chinese Robots in 2016” and a match of “Who is the King”, and will debut for the public in 2016 China (ShangHai) International Technology Fair this month for the first time.

Prof. Chen Xiaoping, Jiajia"’s “Father”--- Director of USTC Robotics Research Center, also showed up in the presentation in the morning of April 15^th. According to him, Jiajia’s appearance stems from five beautiful girls of USTC, at the same time, USTC has endowed Jiajia with kindness, diligence and wisdom ".

Cooperation with Goocoo Group

In recent years, Chen Xiaoping’s team has been committed to the industrialization of service robot, so that service robots can enter into humblest homes. Chen Xiaoping said, “After mass production, a robot will cost RMB 100,000 yuan or less, and cost depends on grade. The cheaper one will cost less than RMB 50,000 yuan.” He hopes that the cost of Kejia robot will be continuously reduced by 75% even by 90%; at the same time, a robot will cost less than 10,000 yuan in 3-5 years or in a shorter period of time.”

In order to realize the industrialization of service robot, relying on scientific research strength and talents of Institute of Advanced Technology, USTC, Prof. Chen Xiaoping’s team from USTC took a lead, Hefei High-tech Industrial Development Zone provided policy support and service assurance, and Goocoo Group provided industrialization and market development. The three parties worked together to create the “Robotics Research Center of USTC- Goocoo” in 2014.

Goocoo Robot Industry Holding Co., Ltd. (hereinafter referred to as Goocoo Robot) was founded while the Robotics Center was unveiled, with a registered capital of RMB 1 billion yuan, engaging in investment, development, production and sales of intelligent service robots and robotic automated intelligent equipment, etc. As the largest private enterprise in Anhui Province, Top 100 Private Enterprises of China, Goocoo Group has the total assets of more than RMB 37.8 billion yuan, and has achieved the annual revenue of RMB 18.5 billion yuan, involving such industries as real estate, finance and new materials.

The R&D of “Jiajia” robot has received the support from the Robotics Research Center of USTC- Goocoo. However, in view of industrialization and market development provided for USTC robots by Goocoo Group, as well as USTC team’s pursuit of industrialization of service robots, cooperation in the woman robot should be the high probability event. Some time ago, woman robot Jiajia served as a “Shopping Guide” in the crowded shopping mall---Goocoo Plaza, a commercial real estate project of Goocoo Group, successfully taking the customer to the appointed place. The second generation of early Kejia robots has also applied in other commercial real estate projects of Goocoo Group.

Hidden capital chessboard

The chessboard of capital operation has already been opened, and the robot show may play a warm-up role in private placement of Tongling Trinity Technology, reassuring other shareholders for the robot project of Tongling Trinity Technology to vote for it.

According to Goocoo Group’s plan, Goocoo Robot will become the largest intelligent robot company in China in 5-10 years. Last June, therefore, Goocoo Robot held the controlling interest of Trinity Group, the first majority shareholder of Tongling Trinity Technology, in the way of assignation of share, and indirectly became the shareholder of Tongling Trinity Technology.  Besides, Yuan Qihong, the controller of Goocoo Group, has become the actual controller of Tongling Trinity Technology.

On April 12^th, Tongling Trinity Technology published the scheme for private placement to raise fund of RMB 770 million yuan at the price of RMB 18.19 yuan/share or more from Goocoo Group owned by Yuan Qihong, the actual controller, of which RMB 250 million yuan will be invested in R&D of intelligent robot and its industrialization projects, as well as the projects of Goocoo Intelligent Robotics Research Center.

According to the plan of Tongling Trinity Technology and Shanghai Stock Exchange’s reply to the inquiry, the key technology of existing robots has been developed and completed by the R&D team of Goocoo Robot, and Goocoo Robot has committed to donate R&D team, technological achievements and relevant patents to the listed company. The Robotics Research Center of USTC- Goocoo will provide cutting-edge robot research technical support for the project.