Ubisoft’s unique strategy and long-term vision in AI revolution - part 2

The bug is not only a nightmare for gamers but also a nightmare for programmers. The current 3A game, almost all need to be completed by thousands of programmers from around the world to work together. A game contains tens of millions of lines of code. Any error in one of the links may result in the quality of the game as a whole. According to Ubisoft’s propaganda video in the Commit Assistant, today's game development costs are so high that “debugging” - the detection and adjustment of bugs account for about 70% of the overall budget.

The Commit Assistant came into being under this background. Using AI instead of expensive human resources to find and correct bugs will greatly reduce the cost of game development, thus allowing game companies to invest more money and manpower in improving the quality of games. The advantage of AI lies in the outstanding ability to process massive amounts of data.

The Commit Assistant, as an AI exterminator, currently has the following capabilities and achievable results:

1. Through in-depth learning of past bug data, analyzing the basic types of bugs, error times, and nodes, and predicting the occurrence of bugs in advance.

2. Real-time monitoring, detection of code in the process of writing bugs, timely remind the programmers. Currently, the misstatement rate of the Commit Assistant is about 30%. The researchers believe that with more game bug data, this number will eventually be reduced to an acceptable level.

3. For the programmer proposed Bug amendments, significantly reduce the programmer's unnecessary repetitive work. According to the R&D team test, the Commit Assistant can save programmers about 20% of the time, which undoubtedly contributes to the reduction of development costs and the improvement of the game quality.

To enjoy the perfectly smooth game experience, you should also own a smart game controller which will provide you the best control touch feeling and the best touch sensitivity, so that you will always win.

Ubisoft’s unique strategy and long-term vision in AI revolution - part 1

Ubisoft is a French game company founded in 1986 and infused with incomparable romantic humanistic feelings and imagination in video games. The Ubisoft has a variety of refreshing and impressive works such as "Rayman", "Prince of Persia", "Watch Dogs" and the famous "Assassin's Creed" series, each of which own thousands of loyal fans around the world. However, once Ubisoft's performance is unsatisfactory, fans will make all kinds of funny sarcasm and jokes about this loved company.

In addition to instability in the game server, Ubisoft has a large number of bugs that seriously affect the player's experience. Ubisoft Montreal’s newly established La Forge studio announced at the Ubisoft Developer Conference in February this year an AI assistant named Commit Assistant, specifically designed to “debug”. It is hoped to relieve the programmer from testing and adjusting the bugs of the game code, at the same time, to get rid of their own Bugisoft's notoriety. Taking a closer look at this AI assistant and the La Forge studio behind it, we can easily discover Ubisoft’s unique strategy and long-term vision in this AI revolution.

Commit Assistant: AI "Debug" Assistant

The bug in the game refers to the abnormal function, poor experience, data loss, abnormal interruption, etc. caused by the error in the game design code during the game running. For most gamers, what they pursue is nothing more than to find an immersive experience in the game that is different from the real world; and the emergence of the Bug is their nightmare. Imagine if you were staring at your Handheld Game Players screen that your character is riding a white horse on the scenic Nile River to explore the mystery of the ancient tomb (Assassin's Creed: Origin), or when your character is planning the next hacking operation in the San Francisco Bay Area (Watchdog 2), an eye-catching NPC flashed in front of you, it will disrupt your exciting game times, right?

ECOVACS DJ35 debuted leading vacuum robot new revolution - part 2

ECOVACS DJ35 is equipped with an exclusive custom Qualcomm APQ8009 processor, this processor contains a quad-core A7 processor, equipped with a customized Linux system, improve the CPU operation efficiency, save computing resources, so the computing capabilities can reach the previous generation for 24 times. After sensing the environment, the robot can calculate the most reasonable sweeping path at the fastest speed and execute the sweeping plan more quickly. The optimal easy path shortens the cleaning time from the root, and with the superior cleaning ability, it finally achieves good and fast cleaning.

Blue Whale Clean System 2.0 Opens New World

Cleaning power is the biggest requirement for sweeping robots. For many families, the cleansing of the ground is not just "sweeping", but also "mopping", and it also requires strong cleaning capacity so that only garbage can be carried away without leaving any traces. ECOVACS DJ35 Robot Vacuum with the new technology upgrade Blue Whale Cleaning System 2.0, perfectly achieved the sweeping + mopping completing the strong clean task.

The biggest technical highlight of the DJ35's Blue Whale Cleaning System 2.0 is its micro-controlled water tank. The so-called micro-control is precisely controlling the amount of water. The third level of water can be adjusted freely by the mobile phone APP. The best condition is that it can not only clean the ground, but also leave no water stains. The ground is always dry and perfect. ECOVACS DJ35 can not only achieve precise control of the amount of water discharged from the ground, but also can automatically adjust the amount of water according to the working status of the machine. When it stops working, it will not seep a water drop. Manual mopping is difficult to avoid the problem of surface water stains, ECOVACS DJ35 can be a perfect solution.

In the future, the development direction of sweeping robots must be smarter, more convenient, and cleaner. ECOVACS has achieved a number of technological breakthroughs on the road to sweeping robots. Today, this DJ35 is a master of ECOVACS's technology, and also expresses ECOVACS's strong determination to make breakthroughs in robot technology.

ECOVACS DJ35 debuted leading vacuum robot new revolution - part 1

Recently, the 2018 China Home Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo (AWE 2018) was held at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. ECOVACS Robots, the leading brand of home service robots, exhibited the latest sweeping robot at the expo, the ECOVACS Deepoo DJ35, demonstrating the new breakthroughs and innovations in the intelligent home service robotics industry.

Smart Eye launches new era of smart scan

How the robot's cleaning route is comparable to manual cleaning is something ECOVACS has been thinking about. In order for robots to have greater cleaning efficiency, they must first perceive the cleaning environment. The DJ35 brought by the ECOVACS in AWE 2018 reflects ECOVACS's breakthrough in the robot's ability to perceive environmental technologies. The core technology of this is the Smart Eye visual navigation system on the DJ35.

The so-called Smart Eye visual navigation system, like its name, places a "wisdom eye" on the robot. This "wisdom eye" is always watching the changes of the surrounding environment. The robot can "walk" on one side and "view" at the same time. This "wisdom eye" can see the robot's moving position and distance and clearly feel the robot's current room position. Every move is recorded by this "eye". Every step of the move and every process of cleaning work, the ECOVACS DJ35 is very aware. Whether it should be forward or backward, turn left or right, the robot will not lose its way. It refuses to clean up without a rule, the cleanliness of DJ35 must be carried out in an orderly manner.

Artificial intelligence for AI

As we all know, compared to random sweeping robots, planning Robot Vacuum has higher cleaning efficiency. However, the emergence of planned sweeping robots also brings new problems. How can robots plan sweeping paths and can perform sweeping operations more reasonably? This question, ECOVACS DJ35 gives the best answer.

What is the number one vacuum robot in Germany? - part 2

In just a few years, the sweeping robots have completed the transition from random sweeps to intelligent planning, and from single functions to vacuum.

According to statistics of GFK in Germany, from the second half of 2016 to the first half of 2017, ECOVACS robots have achieved rapid growth in the German market and reached the highest market share. As we all know, the demand for quality and technology in Germany is almost paranoid. ECOVACS has become the first choice for German families. At the same time, it has the highest market share in the entire Asia-Pacific region. In the sales ranking of sweeping robots by Yahoo Japan, two of the top three are ECOVACS robot products. In the United States, "Black Friday" (Christmas Shopping Mall in the United States), its product Deepoo DN78 staged a half-day selling out of stock where the shopping scenes were incredibly hot, a single day sales in the Amazon category ranked first also.

It is particularly worth mentioning that the products have not only been recognized by consumers around the world, but have also received the authority of professional organizations. At the end of 2016, Germany TECHBOOK conducted a comprehensive evaluation of the top six flagship brands of top Robot Vacuum in the world. The ECOVACS DR95 was named the smartest robot in many competitions, and the DRK95's ECOVACS Robot App was even rated as "Best APP".

About ECOVACS Robot

ECOVACS Robot has been focusing on the R&D, design, production and sales of home service robots since 1998, and has a core of a complete product line like vacuum robots Deepoo, automatic window cleaning robots Winbot, air purification robots, and butler robots UNIBOT. ECOVACS Robot has always been committed to the mission of “making robots serve the global family”, so that more people can enjoy the smart life brought about by technological innovation!

What is the number one vacuum robot in Germany? - part 1

On September 1, 2017, the IFA, one of the world's three major consumer electronics fairs (AWE in China, CES in the United States, and IFA in Germany) opened in Berlin. As one of the earliest home service robot R&D and manufacturers in the world, ECOVACS Robot has brought its latest sweeping robots, window cleaning robots and other products to the show to share smart life brought by technology with home appliance brands and consumers from all over the world.

The IFA exhibition in Germany began in 1924 and has gone through 93 years. It is the world's most advanced technology brand and product display stage. Every year, it attracts world-famous companies such as Samsung, Sony, and TCL. As early as 2012, ECOVACS Robotics had already released the window cleaning robot Winbot 7 series at IFA. Its sweeping robots and other products were also well received. Every year thereafter, ECOVACS Robots brought the most advanced technology in the entire industry. The vacuum robot Deepoo, butler robot UNIBOT and other latest products were popular in the IFA exhibition.

Latest technology meets user needs

Home service robots are one of the most rapidly developing areas in the service robotics industry. As early as around 2000, the ECOVACS team began to research and development in the area of home service robots. Since the first self-propelled vacuum robot emerged in the public view, ECOVACS Robot successfully transformed the home service robot into a new category. Nowadays, the Robot Vacuum has become the smart product with the highest penetration rate in the world.

The vacuum robot unveiled at IFA was equipped with the world's most advanced intelligent planning technology and cleaning technology. It not only optimized the path planning technology, but also realized functions such as single-room intelligent identification, blind spot sensing, and non-repetition of paused sweeping. The water tank, with its large capacity, can meet the cleaning needs of the whole house at a time by adding water. According to different cleaning needs, it can also independently adjust the speed of water seepage through the mobile phone APP, so that cleaning is not only more thorough but also safer and more convenient. It is reported that at the IFA exhibition, a number of the latest generation of sweeping robots brought by ECOVACS can meet the needs of different families.

IBM Shows "World's Smallest PC"

On March 20th, at the IBM Think 2018 Conference, IBM demonstrated that it was the smallest PC in the world. The size of the micro PC is 1mm*1mm, which is smaller than a grain of salt, and the manufacturing cost is less than 10 US cents.

From the appearance, this PC is just a chip form, but it is more compact than sea salt particles. In other words, without the help of the outside world, ordinary people find it difficult to find the existence of this PC.

In terms of functionality, the micro PC has a processor with "hundreds of thousands" transistors, an SRAM memory, a photovoltaic cell for power supply, and a communication unit that communicates with the outside world using LEDs and a photodetector. IBM claims that the micro PC has comparable performance to the x86 chip in 1990, which means it can run the first generation of Doom.

The practical application of IBM's micro PC is mainly focused on supply chain management and blockchain. It can be used as a data source for blockchain applications, track the delivery of goods, prevent theft and counterfeit fraud, and can also perform basic artificial intelligence operations. This device contains hundreds of thousands of transistors, with monitoring, analysis, communication and even more operations on the data. According to the founding staff, the main role of this PC is to track the transportation of goods and regulate the unreasonable behavior of the goods in the transportation process.

IBM staff revealed that the future of micro-PCs will completely change people's lives, especially the android mini pc, from medical care to logistics, and even all aspects of life. This highly integrated embedded product will appear more in our lives. And IBM is currently testing the prototype of this PC.

The official release date of the micro PC has not yet been determined and it is still in the prototype stage.

MacBook notebook series grows rapidly

There is no doubt that Apple's current most profitable business is the iPhone, which accounts for more than half of the company's profits, but over-reliance on this business also makes them very uneasy, so they must develop and update other products, such as service revenue in recent years, whose growth is very fierce. We can constantly see the iPhone updating iterations and the iOS system is constantly updated. However, MacBook laptops are not updated as often as they were.

In recent days, Ming-Chi Kuo, KGI famous analyst who has accurately predicted Apple's new products for many times, gave a different perspective. For those who are looking forward to updating the MacBook Air, this is an excellent news.

According to the information given by Ming-Chi Kuo, the fastest growth of Apple’s hardware products this year will be the MacBook notebook product line, which will increase sales by 13-16% over last year, followed by the iPad series, and sales volume is expected to increase by 7-10%. The iPhone's growth rate is at the bottom, only 6%. In other words, the most surprising Apple sales this year will be the MacBook notebook series, and the profitable iPhone is no longer their fastest growing business, even if the new iPhone X will be launched this year.

In addition, Ming-Chi Kuo also said that the entire MacBook notebook series, this year's Touch Bar MacBook Pro sales growth rate will be fierce, and Apple should be happy, because it is the highest price in the entire series, so that the maximum profitability earned.

It is worth mentioning that Ming-Chi Kuo also stated that the MacBook Air, which has not been updated for a long time, will be updated this year. In addition to configuration upgrades, there are also many great laptop parts updating. It will also be replaced with a retinal screen, and the price will be slightly reduced so that the price/performance ratio is undoubtedly higher.

Haier projection smart speaker debut lately!

As one of the world's three major home appliances and consumer electronics fairs that share the same name as the US CES and the German IFA, the 2018 China Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo (AWE) will be opened today at the Shanghai New International Expo Center. On March 8, the 2018 China Home Appliances and Consumer Electronics Expo (AWE) opened. According to the reports, Haier showed a more interesting projection touch interactive smart speaker. However, the specific specifications, functions and prices of this speaker have not been disclosed officially yet. We are looking forward to it.

As the world's largest brand of home appliances, Haier has contracted the entire exhibition hall of E7 for display. Before the opening of AWE, Haier held several press conferences and announced that it had joined forces with Softbank robots to enter the field of service robots and elaborated on the vision of building a smart home. At the press conference, several new black technology products were fully presented, and they were revealed here first.

This Haier projection touch interactive speaker can be said to be the most exciting new product for everyone. This speaker combines mini led projector, touch, and sound playback. The screen is placed on the table in front of the user. The user can control the screen by touching the virtual screen and control other network devices. Live audiences have experienced playing piano with it, which is so funny.

It is reported that this speaker set has projection, touch, sound playback in one, can project a screen image on the desktop, and the projection screen supports touch control. For example, if you project a piano key, you can "play the piano" by touching it with your finger. At the same time as a smart speaker, it can also play songs, human-computer interaction, control smart home products and other functions.

Nokia is working on smart city

On March 7, according to media reports, Nokia will launch a series of services based on Internet of Things (IoT), data analysis and blockchain technologies to help the sustainable development of the smart city economy and environment. In other words, Nokia's services and technologies will be used to manage the "Smart City" video surveillance, network, Internet of Things, sensors, parking conditions and environment.

In the emerging Internet of Things, billions of connected devices and sensors will generate huge amounts of data. To create a “smart city,” real-time environmental data needs to be acquired, processed, analyzed, and acted in a timely manner to ensure a sustainable environment for citizens. To ensure that the Smart City's IoT ecosystem is more effective, creating new data monetization opportunities for IoT sensor network operators to provide smart city management with processed and analyzed real-time environmental data, which is important.

Asad Rizvi, director of business development at Nokia Global Services (GS), said: "Cities need to be digitally relocated in order to serve their citizens effectively. To ensure the efficient use of urban assets and data, share, secure and resilient smart infrastructure, where we can help and in addition we can provide solutions in all parts of the city to help operators get new revenue from their current network. "

Among them, Nokia's "Sensing as a Service" (S2aaS) can intelligently analyze the environmental data collected by IoT sensors. Operators can then sell the analyzed data to cities or other regulators. Nokia believes that a real-time monitoring system based on the Internet of Things can provide “Smart City” managers with timely environmental data. For example, S2aaS can detect unusual environmental behaviors such as illegal construction, waste incineration, or abnormal particles in the air. In this case, it is important to have an ip camera with smart sensors for a smart home.

The S2aaS is powered by a blockchain with a built-in micro-payment platform that supports smart contracts for "anonymous, private and secure micro-transactions allowing operators to monetize analytics data to gain new revenue streams." Independent operators can choose the traditional "capital expenditure" business model, you can also choose "service sharing" service model. Nokia said it will work with customers to help them select the best business model for specific cases.

Nokia will manage all hardware installations and use existing environmental sensors and edge gateways to complete existing outlets. S2aaS will include a complete platform for collecting and processing sensor data hosted by Microsoft Azure, Amazon AWS or Nokia Private Cloud.

Take you to visit CP+ exhibition Canon new products

The current CP+ 2018 show, the most watched product from the Canon booth is an Interchangeable Lens Digital Camera M50. Canon M50 ILDC with 24.1 effective megapixels APS-C frame sensor design, the processor uses Canon's DIGIC8, so the performance of the image algorithms, noise control, etc. will be even more outstanding.

Canon M50 EVF electronic viewfinder

The Canon M50 uses 2.36 megapixels EVF electronic viewfinder design, so watching through the viewfinder, we can see the delicate real-time images. The other parts of the appearance are similar to the Canon M100.

4K video to join is the highlight

The highlight of the Canon M50 is the addition of 4K video support, making it the first Canon-supported 4K video product. The current market, we can see that 4K has been widely used in ILDC product line, whether the M43 frame, APS-C frame or full frame, but also include entry-level and high-end series. The Canon M50 join 4K video which can widely improve the competitiveness of the product.

Focus coverage area upgrade

Canon uses the all-pixel dual-core focus technology in a wide range of products and makes further improvements in the M50. Canon M50 horizontal focus coverage now reached 88%, longitudinal focus coverage reached 100%. This is indeed a big step forward for the user experience.

10 frames per second continuous shooting speed

In addition to focusing, Canon M50 also has an excellent performance in continuous shooting, which can support up to 10 frames per second continuous shooting speed. For our daily shooting time, you can easily capture even high-speed moving objects.

The volume is still small

Canon M50 overall size is still very small. So it will not take up spaces when going out to carry it with you. And when carrying for a long time is also more easy and convenient. You can also carry some accessories like Canon Camera Battery with you during traveling.

For now, the price of the Canon M50 exposure is about 900 US dollars, such a price in such a level of ILDC market will have high competitiveness. It also proves that Canon has brought us sincerity in the opening of 2018. Canon M50 is expected to be listed in April when we will bring more tracking reports, so stay tuned.

Sharp in 2018 - technology creation leader

Sharp will start mass production of OLED panels from April to June 2018. OLED panels are currently being planned for use with Sharp's smartphones, but no specific content has yet been identified. In addition, time and plan of the OLED panel on the use of television are not sure. Recently, reporter learned from Sharp Japan's exclusive in the layout of the latest OLED business trends.

Known as "the originator of the liquid crystal circle", "the originator of net ion group technology," Sharp was once the banner of Japan's black technology, but it has always maintained a certain distance with the OLED technology. Since the second half of 2017, the industry has repeatedly reported that Sharp or layout OLED. But several industry insiders boldly predicted to reporters that "it is not possible". One of the important reasons is that, in general, the brown goods enterprises will bet on a clear stream of technology flow to differentiate the other competitors in the industry. Such as the global panel doubles Samsung and LGD, respectively, tend to AMOLED and OLED. Related to the television display technology schools, Skyworth, LG, Konka, Sony, Philips and other TV brands are pushing OLED TV; TCL, Samsung and others are pushing QLED (quantum dot) television; Hisense and others are mainly pushing laser TV.

Sharp's technology label is mainly 8K. At the CES show in early 2018, 8K television was a pocketed gimmick. Just by virtue of its 7680 * 4320 ultra-high definition resolution, enough to attract many people's attention. Following Sharp, Samsung, Konka and other TV industry giants launched their 8K products, 8K television are well known now.

Sharp, the so-called "Father of 8K", was the first to show 8K television in front of the world, which means that the true arrival of the 8K era. On August 31, 2017, Sharp released the world's first consumer-grade 8K television, the AQUOS. The 8K TV in addition to the amazing resolution of 7680 * 4320 pixels, it is equipped with a new "new bright color technology", environmental non-toxic cadmium-free wide color gamut technology, making television with high saturation, hue accurate, bright natural features, but also has more realistic color performance. Bringing a new visual experience to users and bringing new choices to the increasing quality consumption nowadays. In addition, Sharp released this time not only an 8K television, but a set of 8K ecosystem. With the TV Dongle, we can enjoy all the movies and YouTube videos we love on this amazing TV screen display now.

Vodafone and Nokia will install 4G networks on the moon next year

According to the "Daily Mail", Vodafone said it has reached a cooperation with Nokia for the development of space network to provide technical support. The hardware used to implement the space network is small and weighs less than a bag of sugar. The project will connect two Audi lunar rover and one automatic landing and navigation module (ALINA) base station.

The two Audi lunar rover will study lunar rover that NASA Apollo 17 mission left behind, scanning and condition assessment, such as intense radiation, extreme temperatures and damage caused by small meteorites. The 4G network on the Moon will allow them to send scientific data and high-definition video to Earth. The researchers said the two vehicles were transmitting live high-resolution pictures to Earth 200 meters (656 feet) away from the lunar rover.

Vodafone said the two companies are working with PTScientists in Berlin on the project and plan to launch the SpaceX Falcon 9 in Cape Canaveral in 2019. Hannes Ametsreiter, chief executive of Vodafone, said: "This project will adopt a very innovative approach to developing mobile network infrastructure." An informed executive pointed out that as the 5G network is still in the testing phase, stability on the moon was not guaranteed and was not used.

Last year, Audi said it would place a private lunar lander with two Audi lunar rover on the surface of the moon. Audi hopes this cost-conscious project will eventually commercialize the Moon. The engineering team that developed the lunar rover said that Audi has helped to perfect the 3D printing technology that makes lunar rover. The raw materials(3D Printer Accessories) used in the printing process are titanium and aluminum.

The project plans to send a lunar rover to the moon's surface at Cape Canaveral in 2019 for the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The lunar rover contains two Audi lunar rover. Launch fee is about 130 million US dollars. In contrast, the average cost of NASA space shuttle 450 million US dollars.