VIP Class Notes (Ally)

Vocabulary

fishing for compliments: asking people to praise you

visuals/visual aids: picture/videos

ancient: super old

intervene/stepped in: 出面; 介入; 插嘴; 打断(别人的话); 阻碍; 阻挠; 干扰

I wanted to have some feedback. It doesn’t matter if the feedback is good or bad.
I wanted to get some feedback, no matter good or bad.

This was from our clients
This is from our clients.

They looked a bit confused
They had a confused expression (on their faces)

His English is even worse than mine.

How can we establish unity in commercial and domestic robots designs so that they both maintain their own characteristics but at the same time are both recognizable as … products?

At present, many people still think of robots as having arms, legs … 
At present, the common perception is that robots must have arms, legs, facial expression./there is still the common perception that robots have …

cannot be called/classified as robots

robot-like

look more robot-like.

Apart from being intelligent, can the products also exhibit/show human-like emotions or something else?

mass-produced for the market

However, the premise is that the design must be suitable for production.

they don’t want to make people confused that they’re doing the products with arms and legs
they don’t want to confuse people/create confusion that they’re doing the products with arms and legs/about the design of their products.

They will an internal seminar in 2 weeks, where they will be discussing their design strategy. They expect us to use our professional understanding to express these ideas through visuals. For example, they want us to use different images or videos to represent different robots, which would facilitate their understanding of what kind of robots are suitable for Ecovacs and help Ecovacs figure out the right direction for their designs.

even in Chinese, it’s still complicated