Iron Egg Robot Won Xiaomi Technology Award Lei Jun: R&D investment of more than 100 billion yuan in 5 years

On January 4, Xiaomi Group held the annual technology award ceremony. According to Lei Jun, chairman of Xiaomi, the 68 entries of this award are extremely outstanding and of a very high standard, especially the winner of this year's highest award, the CyberDog Iron Egg Four-legged Bionic Robot Team.

Lei Jun also revealed that there are two fresh master's graduates recruited by the school in 2020 in the iron egg team. "These two students joined Xiaomi for only one year, and won Xiaomi's highest technical award, really heroes out of teenagers, amazing!" In this regard, he suggested that all departments should boldly appoint young outstanding talents, and in the future, the training and appointment of "young heroes" should be included in the evaluation indicators for the organizational capacity building of various departments.

In Lei Jun's view, "technology-oriented" is the iron law that Xiaomi never changes, and the engineer culture is the background color in Xiaomi's genes. Ensuring the sense of accomplishment and happiness of engineers is the top priority of the Group and the hope for the Group's sustainable development in the future.

Lei Jun said that Xiaomi will unswervingly continue to increase R & D investment, the group's R & D investment will exceed 100 billion yuan in 5 years; at the same time, we will continue to promote the "young engineer equity incentive plan" to provide the best remuneration for outstanding engineers...

"At present, Xiaomi is at a critical moment in the beginning of the new decade's journey, and we are facing a series of major propositions that determine the future and fate of Xiaomi: winning the world's first mobile phone in three years, the product experience is officially benchmarked against Apple, the AIoT ecology is in full swing, and the career related to smart cars is ready to go." Lei Jun also added. (Article | Author of "Finance and Economics" Weekly, Tang Guo)