Chapter 1407 [Completely leaving Boston Dynamics behind for a few streets]
The development of robot dogs cannot be limited to military use. So many years of development have proven that military-civilian integration is the major trend in the future. The most correct route is for the development of military technology to feed back technological upgrades by relying on the huge civilian market.
If Big Goose had understood this back then, he wouldn't be so embarrassed now.
The application scenarios of robot dogs in the civilian market are actually quite rich and very imaginative. For example, guide dogs are a scenario, fire extinguishing is a scenario, etc.
When some explosive items catch fire, there is a risk of a second big explosion, and it is potentially dangerous for firefighters to approach to put out the fire.
With firefighting robot dogs, firefighters can do these dangerous tasks.
Including the task of preventing or dealing with sudden forest fires, firefighting robot dogs can also have a lot of room to play. When extinguishing forest fires, they can replace firefighters in the most dangerous areas to carry out fire-fighting tasks.
In normal times, firefighting robot dogs can be sent to patrol the forest to prevent problems before they happen. Now Bionic Power Company's iterative upgrade of the robot dog technology can adapt to complex terrain in the wild and can easily turn over even if it is on its back.
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But at this moment, Ma Gaoyuan brought Fang Hong to a conference room. He personally started the conference room screen to play a video, and looked at Fang Hong with a smile and said: "Mr. Fang, remember what you said before about letting the submarine
Is it possible to fly across media? Our company’s technical team has made breakthrough progress.”
Fang Hong was surprised when he heard this: "So fast?"
At this time, Ma Gaoyuan started to play a route screen, and Fang Hong also looked at the screen.
The scene in the video was on the sparkling sea. After a while, a consumer-grade aircraft rushed out of the water and took off into the sky. It was an aircraft that could both fly and dive. It was driven by the Bionic Power Company.
The technical team has researched it.
Ma Gaoyuan introduced to Fang Hong: "A month ago, the test flight of the submersible cross-media vehicle was successful, and we have multiple teams and multiple routes working together, and we have made great breakthroughs. Now this video is from the Harbin Project
Results achieved by a technical team graduated from university.”
"The test machine can carry a load of 1.5 kilograms and can dive to a depth of up to 100 meters. It completes the switch between the atmospheric boundary layer and the ocean boundary layer through the high-definition camera and digital radio. In order to allow it to quickly cross the water and air media, it can both fly and
Able to enter the sea, the test aircraft is equipped with fixed wings and folding wings."
"Compared with other structures, fixed wings take less time to cross the medium and can directly cross the water-air interface. For aircraft diving, only a small propeller is added as an underwater power source to stabilize the aircraft underwater.
Sailing.”
"The entire test aircraft jumped out of the water, unfolded its wings, and successfully took off in just 5 seconds. It can switch freely between the air, the water surface, and underwater, fly stably in the air, and sail covertly underwater."
The so-called cross-media flight refers to a new aircraft that can autonomously use different media environments, fly for a long time in a single media environment, and cross media interfaces multiple times to maintain optimal performance in different media environments to complete combat missions.
This combines the advantages of aerial vehicles and underwater vehicles. It can not only achieve high-speed cruising and maneuverable strikes, but also achieve long-term endurance and covert penetration.
As the technology matures, it will become a big killer when combined with missile technology.
Imagine that there is a missile with cross-media flight capabilities. When attacking the enemy, it can dive and break through during the cruise stage, bypassing the medium and long-range air defense firepower network, and directly jump out of the water at the end for supersonic penetration. This is equivalent to directly destroying the missile.
In addition to all the opponent's air defense capabilities except close defense.
Even the advanced version can perform repeated horizontal jumps like "floating in the water". You were flying in the sky and suddenly entered the sea. The enemy thought that the interception was successful. After a wave of tactical deception, the bottom of the ship suddenly hit the waterline and exploded violently. It can be said that
It is impossible to guard against.
However, current technology is still unable to achieve such an effect, because entering the water too fast is the same as hitting a rock. If you slow down during the water entry stage, the probability of being intercepted will greatly increase.
But there is no doubt that this is the development direction of cross-media aircraft, and it is also the clear direction for the technical team to tackle problems.
After Ma Gaoyuan introduced to Fang Hong this cross-media aircraft that uses a cross-media ramjet engine to sail at high speed in water and air, he then introduced to him another cross-media aircraft studied by another team, which is characterized by the use of a rotor type.
Flying across media.
This model is a foldable manipulator-type cross-media aircraft based on a piston-type buoyancy adjustment system. It can cross the water and air medium, and has the ability to seem to cross the medium.
It can unfold its four rotors when in flight, becoming an unmanned aerial vehicle. When it enters the water, it will retract its four rotors, and the entire aircraft forms a buoy-like submersible that can fly to a depth of about 10 meters underwater.
More than 40 hours of covert sailing.
When the mission requires it, it jumps out of the water and transforms into an aircraft to perform aerial missions.
The design concept of this model is organically integrated with that of a drone, integrating vertical take-off and landing, hovering, horizontal flight, underwater gliding and other functions.
Not only can it fly in the air and position itself, it can also land in designated sea areas or water surfaces, enter underwater submersibles, complete underwater observation missions, and then jump out of the water to fly back home autonomously.
At the end, Fang Hong said: "Well done, the breakthrough was faster than I expected."
This product is an interdisciplinary technical research, and the difficulty is actually very high. It requires technical experts from different fields to work together to solve the problem to achieve it.
Fang Hong is very satisfied with the technical progress of a series of projects of Bionic Power Company. The company was established ten years later than Boston Dynamics, but its technical products have been left behind by Bionic Power Company in all aspects.
Especially the mass production of products.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Robot dogs were actually originally studied by Boston Dynamics, but so far they have no energy. It should be said that the real product of Boston Dynamics is the company itself, and they do not want to make a good use of it.
For robot dogs, they want to tell stories.
What Boston Dynamics wants is hype concepts and samples, because if it is really launched on the market, it will have to invest money to build factories, invest money to improve technology, and face various after-sales problems, right?
In this way, it will be difficult for them to make money. In comparison, they can make money by making some PPT and semi-finished products. Why not?
The way this company survives is to be sold back and forth, first to Google and finally to Bangzi.
In the past, some people thought that there was no market for robot dogs and they could not be profitable. However, as Bionic Power Company developed the product, the cost continued to drop, and more application scenarios were discovered, it became clear that the market did not seem to be the biggest problem.
There is actually nothing wrong with Boston Dynamics not developing products but just concepts. If it really does this, it will only die faster, because it is impossible for it to compete with Bionic Dynamics.
Not to mention the technical aspects, Boston Dynamics will definitely not be able to handle the cost aspect. The reason is also very simple. The hollowing out of the current industry is a big flaw that Boston Dynamics cannot avoid.
The cost of producing a robot dog will be astonishingly high.
Bionic Power Company is backed by a country with the most complete and strongest industrial capabilities in human history. The current cost of building a robot dog is 3,000 yuan, and the old magnesium company Boston Dynamics cannot even afford to build one for 6,000 US dollars.
The cost gap between the two is often more than ten times. How can Boston Dynamics take the lead?
How about telling stories with PPT and playing with reality directly like the Bionic Dynamics Company of Dongda University? Boston Dynamics said that it really can’t be played, not even a little bit.
