HONG KONG, April 24, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Cheetah Mobile
Inc. (NYSE: CMCM) ("Cheetah Mobile" or the "Company"), a leading
mobile internet company with global market coverage, and OrionStar
Technology Co., a Cheetah Mobile-invested AI company, brought their
Cheetah GreetBot robot to the Hong Kong Electronics Fair, the
world's biggest mobile electronics fair, to showcase how AI and
robotics will open up new opportunities for retail. Wearing a
charming hat and bowtie, Cheetah GreetBot acted as a "big boss" to
introduce customers to CM Translator, the best-selling
handheld translator in China, and
answer questions about the product.
Cheetah GreetBot, a full-sized receptionist robot designed to
interact with visitors and customers and guide them to their
destinations with speech recognition, a facial and body recognition
camera, and a navigation system, made its mark with its interesting
introductions and personalized dialogues, while CM Translator's one
button, ultra light and portable design amazed audiences at the
Hong Kong Electronics Fair, where well-known industry giants and
entrepreneurs gathered to experience the most advanced
technologies, and latest development trends in the industry.
"Bringing Cheetah GreetBot to the Hong Kong Electronics Fair is
a significant milestone in Cheetah Mobile's expansion to
the AI-driven industrial internet space," said Sheng Fu, Chairman and CEO of Cheetah Mobile.
"We believe AI and robotics will upgrade every industry, so we are
building a whole-body AI technology chain to lead the way forward
with new products for businesses and direct to consumers."
2019 is shaping up to be a critical year for the emergence of
practical AI solutions, and the retail industry is one of the most
transformative areas. At present, many companies, including Cheetah
Mobile, Alibaba, and Tencent, have
been working in the new retailing space. Cheetah Mobile and
OrionStar have cooperated on additional intelligent retail
products, including Cheetah VendBot, a smart mobile vending machine
that brings goods directly to customers, and Cheetah Café, a
robotic arm-powered kiosk that serves high-quality coffee.
Cheetah GreetBot is also being widely used in over 20 scenarios
including shopping malls and chain supermarkets, museums,
government service halls, libraries, hotels, banks, courts and law
firms, police stations, medical treatment facilities, and schools.
Cheetah GreetBot provides intelligent new retailing services, such
as answering questions, visual guidance, and directing the flow of
foot traffic, in Nanjing Wanxiang Duhui Commercial Plaza, Yintai
Center, Chaoyang Joy City, Wanda Shopping Mall, Wu Mart
Beijing, China Unicom Inner
Mongolia Branch, and Benz 4S. Cheetah GreetBot responds in
real-time to customer inquiries and can assist with sales.
Cheetah GreetBot's "big boss" role included providing on-floor
sales support for CM Translator, the #1 selling handheld AI
translator in China. Cheetah
Mobile introduced CM Translator to the Chinese market in 2018, and
plans to release an international version later this year. CM
Translator currently supports six languages including Chinese,
English, Japanese, Korean, Thai and Spanish. It's extremely
easy-to-use, lightweight, and features a one-button design. CM
Translator offers 180 days of standby time and 24 hours of
continuous use. During last year's Double 11 Shopping Festival,
Cheetah Mobile sold over 15,000 CM Translator units, making it the
top seller in its category.
Cheetah GreetBot amazed international customers at the Fair by
providing hands-on demos of CM Translator using personalized
dialogues.
Sheng Fu, continued, "The essence
of robots is the combination of 'AI+hardware+software+service.'
Cheetah Mobile and OrionStar have
created an open robot ecosystem by building the full-chain AI
technology as well as the robotics hardware. We have also used
robot intelligent solutions to serve the industrial scenarios and
built business brains to support business decisions and will unite
more partners to work in the industrial Internet."
Although our AI-powered hardware business is still in its
infancy in terms of revenue contribution, CM Translator and Cheetah
GreetBot have helped Cheetah Mobile to create a closed-loop sales
cycle, which we believe will become
an important engine to drive our future growth. Cheetah Mobile will
continue to elevate its AI abilities as it evolves from a utility
app business to one that is robotics-centric and strategically
focused on combining 'AI+hardware+software+service.'
About Cheetah Mobile
Cheetah Mobile is a leading mobile Internet company with global
market coverage. It has attracted hundreds of millions of monthly
active users through its mobile utility products such as Clean
Master and Cheetah Keyboard, casual games such as Piano Tiles 2,
Bricks n Balls, and live streaming product Live.me. The Company
provides its advertising customers, which include direct
advertisers and mobile advertising networks through which
advertisers place their advertisements, with direct access to
global promotional channels. The Company also provides value-added
services to its mobile application users through the sale of in-app
virtual items on selected mobile products and games. Cheetah Mobile
is committed to leveraging its cutting-edge artificial intelligence
technologies to power its products and make the world smarter. It
has been listed on the New York Stock Exchange since May 2014.
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