Bitdeer Chairman Jihan Wu: Robot AI is a Great Vision Receiving Global Attention

Bitdeer Chairman and CEO Jihan Wu stated that robot artificial intelligence is being viewed as a great vision attracting global attention. The application scenario he focuses on is simple: there are trees on the lawn, squirrels come daily to eat the fruit, and prevention is still insufficient. If there were low-energy small robots that could drive the squirrels away from the lawn, he would be willing to buy one; he believes this is a scenario many households in North America and Europe desire, as their yards can be disturbed by such wildlife. The premise is clear: he does not want to harm them, just to scare them away when they come.

He did not announce that Bitdeer would mass-produce this machine, nor did he provide a price or delivery date. The post aims to condense the narrative of humanoids, factories, and general intelligence into a yard task that can be verified on-site: identify, approach, drive away, low power consumption, and non-lethal. The North American gray squirrel and European garden fruit trees are ready-made repetitive scenarios, with clear failure modes—mis-spraying people, injuring pets, disturbing neighbors at night, and batteries lasting less than a week.

Bitdeer's main business is not in consumer robots. The company produces Bitcoin mining chips and machines, operates computing power, and is shifting towards artificial intelligence data centers, with global electricity demand discussed at the gigawatt level, most of which is in the U.S., allowing for a quick transition from mining loads to training and inference. At the same time, there are self-developed mining machines to improve profit margins, clear Bitcoin inventory, and public financial actions to expand power and land through debt. The squirrel-driving robot has no product-level connection to these assets; it connects to his judgment of the gap between the "great vision" and "things that can be ordered."

The market for yard animal deterrents is not blank. Lawn mowing robots have entered households, and some research has added vision to mowers to preserve biodiversity; amateur projects use Raspberry Pi to identify squirrels and automatically spray water, completing a closed loop of detection, classification, tracking, aiming, and spraying. Wu Jihan wants narrower specifications: low energy consumption, small size, and only scaring without harming. Spraying water, sound waves, and moving decoys may all satisfy the "scaring away" requirement, but the real challenge is the all-weather false alarm rate and neighborhood acceptance.

He articulated the willingness to purchase as a common need among North American and European households, effectively defining a climate zone for consumer robots: homes with yards, fruit trees, and a reluctance to use poison. Factory humanoids aim for labor substitution, while yard robots aim to stop seasonal disturbances. The latter has a lower unit price, clearer responsibility boundaries, and is closer to his immediate pain points as a homeowner rather than a mining site owner.

In market mechanisms, buyers are families with yards, repeatedly visited by squirrels, and unwilling to harm animals, while sellers will be consumer hardware manufacturers of low-power vision and mobile chassis, not gigawatt-level data centers. The event-driven narrative is that the general robot narrative is overheated, while purchasable yard products remain scarce. If funding is activated, it will come from household consumer electronics budgets rather than mining capital expenditures. Beneficiaries will be companies that can turn identification and deterrence into appliance SKUs; those under pressure will be laboratories that only demonstrate humanoid gait and cannot explain what the first machine actually solves for whom. Wu Jihan's orders are still at "I am willing to buy."