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Student Name	UBTech	Tencent	Company 3
Ayesha Aziz ALKAFF	UBTech was extremely well prepared and enthusiastic to show their products. They embrace innovation and clearly diversifies their product as much as possible to cater to different markets and age groups.	Tencent was truly an eye opening experience for me. It is clear why they dominate the global market, emphasising on the customer requirements and wants. They show no signs of slowing down, slowly but surely conquering different industries, and immensely succeeding in them.
Bernadine LYE Su Hui	UBTech is at the forefront of cutting edge technology in the realm of AI. In fact, “Machine learning is not really cutting edge technology.” - which was an interesting point. It was insightful to see how robots in movies are actually being realised by UBTech in real life, and its many applications. It would be interesting to see how cost can be minimized to reach out to more consumers.	Tencent is very diversified in its operations, and owes its success to its different modes of operations in various industries - investments, partnerships and direct ownerships. It was interesting how QQ and a WeChat - both products of Tencent, were not thought to be in direct competition, but as complementary platforms. The amount of different products and technologies by Tencent was really impressive - a company to continuously watch as it continues to expand its influence in coming years.
CHANG Jia Li	A robot can do a back flip better than me! I like how they focus on different aspect in providing the best robots such as in education or customer service. Furthermore, they improved the Walker Version 2.0 within a year which was amazing.	Really impressive exhibition and I'm so amazed with the technologies that they have! Tencent provides such a wide services and each of them is so good in their area. Definitely was a fun tour!
Chantalle NG	I think it is refreshing how we were exposed to the robotics world today. Before the visit, I did not expect them to be so advanced. I’m excited for walker 2.0 to be available in the market, I think it will revolutionise the way people function in the future.	The tour was amazing and an eye opener. The company invests so heavily on their consumers, which I agree, is a right step to capture hearts. The story of the founder inspires all of us and demonstrates that there is no limit to where we can go, if we work smart.
Cheryl KOH Zhi Ying	“People should embrace technology advancement rather than fear it.” Technology helps us to better take on mundane routine tasks, enabling us to channel our resources towards more productive and enjoyable tasks. We should hence not fear being replaced by robots and AI, but focus on the positive possibilities they can bring.	“People should embrace technology advancement rather than fear it.” Technology helps us to better take on mundane routine tasks, enabling us to channel our resources towards more productive and enjoyable tasks. We should hence not fear being replaced by robots and AI, but focus on the positive possibilities they can bring.
Debbie LEE Shan Ying
Derrick LEE Ming Yang	"It would take at least 20-25 years to commercialize the Walker robot and even so, it would be priced around the range of mid-range saloon car"	"TenCent implements corporate social responsibility by tracking an individual's steps taken a day. For every 10,000 steps, TenCent donated a cent to a charity. This allows them to promote health fitness and giving back to the society at the same time."
Gary CHUA Rongjie	PC —> Mobile —> Robots. Aiming to move towards pro-active response. UBTECH’s aim is that now the uptake may not be a lot, but we foresee that it will be the PC/Internet era where many are apprehensive but will prevail and result in technological wonders.	With 4000 partners worldwide and 25,000 patents, tencent will be the heart of technology in China. I think that the chat platforms have reached their potential already. The next step will be to expand on services such as AI and machine learning. Especially with use cases like the AI playing GO, being able to compute 10^170 computations which is unheard of.
GOH Jin Qiang	The key to UBTech's growth and innovation strategy is their primary focus on developing their strengths instead of attempting to be a jack of all trades. In doing so, it opens the doors for further collaboration and new innovations as UBTech and other companies capitalize on one another's strength - which in turn drives faster and further growth.	Tencent is extremely customer-centric and their innovations are driven by listening and understanding customers' needs. This helps them to anticipate and predict what customers will value and might need, even before the customers realize it themselves.
Gwendolyn GOH Wen Hui	The most interesting thing about UBtech is their ability to develop a new prototype robot in just one year. It is interesting to see how they educate people about coding and robots since young.	I’ve learned that Tencent is a user-centric company and they cover a lot more different products than just games.
HO Wei Hong	"IOT is the foundation of trust to machines. Alexa and home mini build and transfer trust. Walker utilise the trust."	Building iconic digital culture with technologies
HOW Zhiteng
LIM Yi Bin	From computers to laptops to robots, the progress in robotics will only progress further but a balance between the human touch and robot interaction is necessary in this process.	The expansion of a company may reap in the profits but in the long run, it's the community involvement and support for the less fortunate that will ensure continual support for it's products.
Mathilda NG	The company mainly uses AI to come up with futuristic robots and even ones to commercialize and use in future households such as the Walker, which acts as a butler. There is always a need to have progression in technology in order to improve the lives of the people and robots can help to ease many laborious tasks in such areas. With the rapid advancement in technology, the use of humanoid robots will also be useful in many areas as well.	The company provides a wide array of products and services ranging from the popular social media platform ‘Wechat’ to providing entertainment such as animation and games to others. Their philosophy of putting their customers first and being customer oriented has allowed them to be very successful in many areas of expertise. With 50% of the company focused on research, a lot of time and effort is put into providing the best solution and use cases for any product or service being launched.
Mohammad Hazmie Bin JAAFAR	The advancement of the robots are really astounding. I'm very impressed with their vision to make "'Walker available in every house". Walker can easily take over the duty of a domestic helper. Although it may be expensive, I believe that it will eventually be cheaper than paying for a maid.	Tencent biggest irony is that the company worth more than 10cents. When I went to visit SAP I was already impressed with their technology. However, Tencent just wowed me with its futuristic technology.
Muhammad Hafizuddin Bin ABD RAHIN
ONG Li Ting
ONG Lin Sheng
ONG Yan Kai
Shaun John CHEETHAM
Student Name	Company 1	Company 2	Company 3
SIM Li Jin
Stanley LIN Weijie
SZE Shao Tang
TAY Wei Xuan	Robots cannot replace humans for all tasks. We will still need some form of human interaction from time to time.	Tencent can be considered more advanced in terms of R&D compared to other tech giants like Google and Amazon and will definitely surpass them in the near future.
TEO Wei Shen
TIONG Nai Shi
YONG Fu Xiang
YUEN Chui Shan