The Robotic Coffee Master is designed to complete all steps autonomously, including grabbing the cup and the pot, grinding beans, transferring the grind, pouring and serving.By RTN Staff – 9.29.2020 Is the world ready for a robotic barista? One company is placing big bets that indeed it is. Chinese-based OrionStar has introduced the Robotic Coffee Master, which it describes as "a humanoid robot barista that simulates master-level brewing techniques and guarantees a refined taste in every cup." The robot, which can also prepare and serve tea, reportedly combines dual 6-axis robotic arms and 3,000 hours of AI learning.

Sheng Fu founded Cheetah Mobile in 2010, and it found a business making security apps such as Security Master for smartphones. Now it is a publicly traded company valued at $2.2 billion, with revenues of $707 million in 2016. It is targeted almost $800 million for 2017 revenues, after expanding into a variety of other areas, including utilities such as Clean Master for both smartphones and the PC. I met with Fu when the company opened its Silicon Valley office in 2016, and we met once again at CES 2018, the big tech trade show in Las Vegas this week. He told me that the company will shift into the unknown landscape of products that makes use of artificial intelligence.

Ranked the world's third-largest non-game app developer, Cheetah Mobile faces significant challenges in meeting the different needs of a diverse advertiser clientele. In Asia-Pacific, specifically, advertisers have yet to catch up – in terms of media investments – with consumers who are rapidly moving towards mobile devices, according to Josh Ong (pictured below), Cheetah Mobile's director of global marketing and communications. In this Q&A with ExchangeWire, Ong explains how the Chinese app developer is enhancing its programmatic and technology stack to better cater to advertisers' needs, as well as glean deeper insights on its monthly user base of more than 600 million. Khin Mu Yar Soe, PubMatic's customer success manager, also chimes in to discuss how the publisher ad platform works to support Cheetah Mobile, compared to publishers in other regions. If we get that right, then we have a solid base on which to build our business.

China's Cheetah Mobile, considered the world's leading mobile security and utility app developer, is preparing to accelerate its transition into a viable content-focused business, following a US 57 million purchase of media app operator News Republic in the second quarter. "This is a huge step for us," chief technology officer Charles Fan Chenggong told the South China Morning Post. "We can potentially reshape the news industry by introducing a strong, artificial intelligence-driven, personal news delivery service." The acquisition marks the most-ambitious bet to date by the New York-traded Cheetah Mobile, amid its recent struggle to boost advertising income. Analysts at the Blue Lotus Research Institute in Hong Kong said Cheetah had good "synergy" with News Republic, which works with more than 1,650 media partners.

On Friday, one of China's leading tech companies, Cheetah Mobile, announced the 57 million acquisition of New Republic--a move that signals its "journey of a transformation," according to CTO Charles Fan, highlighting its investment in AI and transition into a mobile content company. Founded in 2010, Cheetah Mobile began as a mobile tools provider. Over the last six years, it has become a major player in China's tech scene--and made a big impact, globally. Fan told TechRepublic that the company has over 650,000,000 monthly active users, internationally, in Q1. Fan said he sees the company as a "bridge between China and the world." What makes Cheetah Mobile different, he said, is that 80% of their mobile users are outside of China.

When Cheetah Mobile CEO Sheng Fu went to the US for the first time five years ago, he asked himself, "Why is that Chinese companies work so hard but the most important inventions and new technologies come out of America?" He concluded that the difference between China and the US is that Americans think bigger and dream bigger. The global service robotics market is set to boom, and the second half of 2015 should usher the first wave of these new helpers. Here are seven devices leading the charge. This week in Beijing, Fu announced his company is going to launch itself into AI and deep learning, create a dual headquarters in Beijing and Silicon Valley, and release robots for consumers on a global scale. No one is going to accuse Fu of not thinking big enough.