Chapter 1409 [Completely leaving Boston Dynamics behind]

Robot dogs cannot be developed only for military use. After so many years of development, it has been proved that military-civilian integration is the general trend of the future. The most correct route is that the development of military technology feeds back the upgrading of technology by relying on the huge civilian market.

If Big Goose had understood this truth back then, it would not be so embarrassed now.

The civilian market application scenarios of robot dogs are actually quite rich and there is a lot of room for imagination. For example, guide dogs are one scenario, and fire fighting is another scenario.

When facing some explosive items on fire, there is a risk of secondary explosions, and it is potentially dangerous to let firefighters approach to extinguish the fire.

With firefighting robot dogs, firefighters can be replaced to 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 to rush to the most dangerous areas to carry out firefighting tasks.

In normal times, firefighting robot dogs can be sent to patrol the forest to prevent it before it happens. Now Bionic Power Company has upgraded the iterative robot dog technology to adapt to complex terrain in the wild, and can easily turn over even if it is upside down.

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At this moment, Ma Gaoyuan brought Fang Hong to a conference room. He personally operated the screen in the conference room to play a video, and looked at Fang Hong and smiled: "Mr. Fang, do you remember what you said before about making the submersible able to fly across media? Our company's technical team has made a breakthrough."

Fang Hong was surprised when he heard it: "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 recording was on the sparkling sea. After a while, a consumer-grade aircraft rushed out of the water and took off. It was a flying and diving aircraft that was developed by the technical team of Bionic Power Company.

Ma Gaoyuan introduced to Fang Hong: "A month ago, the test flight of the underwater-air cross-medium aircraft was successful, and we have multiple teams and multiple routes working together, all of which have made significant breakthroughs. This video is the result of the technical team that graduated from Harbin Engineering University."

"The test aircraft can carry a load of 1.5 kg and can dive to a depth of 100 meters. It has completed the switching between the atmospheric boundary layer and the marine boundary layer through the high-definition camera and digital radio on board. In order to enable it to quickly cross the water-air medium and achieve both flight and entry into the sea, the test aircraft is equipped with fixed wings and folding wings respectively."

"Compared with other structures, fixed wings are more efficient in the process of crossing the medium. It takes less time to fly in the air and can directly cross the water-air interface. When the aircraft dives, it only needs to install a small propeller as an underwater power source to achieve stable underwater navigation. "

"The whole process of the test aircraft jumping out of the water and unfolding its wings to successfully taking off took only 5 seconds. It can switch freely between the air, the surface and the underwater, fly stably in the air, and sail stealthily underwater. "

The so-called cross-medium flight refers to a new type of aircraft that can autonomously use different medium environments, can fly for a long time in a single medium environment, and can cross the medium interface multiple times, maintain optimal performance in different medium environments, and thus complete combat missions.

This combines the advantages of aerial aircraft and underwater vehicles, which can achieve high-speed cruising and maneuverable strikes, as well as long-term endurance and concealed penetration.

With the maturity of technology, it will be a killer when combined with missile technology.

Imagine that when there is a missile with cross-medium flight capability, it can dive and advance in the cruise phase when attacking the enemy, bypassing the medium and long-range air defense firepower network, and directly jump out of the water at the end to perform supersonic penetration, which is equivalent to directly destroying all the air defense capabilities of the opponent except for close defense.

Even the advanced version can play the "skipping stones" style of repeated horizontal jumping actions. It was originally flying in the sky and suddenly entered the sea again. The enemy thought that the interception was successful. A wave of tactical deception, but it suddenly hit the waterline at the bottom of the ship and exploded violently. It can be said that it is impossible to defend against it.

However, if you want to achieve such an effect, the current technology is still impossible to achieve it, because the speed is too fast and then entering the water is no different from hitting a stone. If you slow down during the water entry stage, the probability of being intercepted will be greatly increased.

But there is no doubt that this is the development direction of cross-media aircraft and the clear direction of the technical team's research.

After Ma Gaoyuan introduced this cross-media aircraft that uses a cross-media ramjet engine to Fang Hong to travel at high speed in water and air, he introduced him to another cross-media aircraft studied by another team, which is characterized by the use of a rotor type to achieve cross-media flight.

This model is a foldable mechanical arm cross-media aircraft based on a piston buoyancy adjustment system, which can cross the water-air medium and has the ability to cross the medium.

It can unfold four rotors when in flight, becoming an unmanned aerial vehicle. When it enters the water, it will fold its four rotors, and the entire aircraft will form a buoy-like submarine, which can sail concealed at a depth of about 10 meters underwater for more than 40 hours.

When the mission requires, it will jump out of the water and transform into an aircraft to perform aerial missions.

The design concept of this model is organically integrated with the design concept of drones, and it has multiple functions such as vertical take-off and landing, hovering, horizontal flight, and underwater gliding.

Not only can it fly and locate autonomously in the air, but it can also land in designated sea areas or on the water surface, and enter underwater diving. After completing the underwater observation mission, it will jump out of the water and fly back autonomously.

Finally, Fang Hong said: "Well done, the breakthrough is faster than I expected."

This product is an interdisciplinary technical research, which is actually very difficult. It requires technical experts from different fields to work together to tackle the problem.

Fang Hong is very satisfied with the technical progress of a series of projects of Bionic Dynamics. The company was founded ten years later than Boston Dynamics, but Bionic Dynamics has been left behind in terms of technical products, especially the mass production of products.

The robot dog was actually first studied by Boston Dynamics, but it has not been able to measure energy so far. It should be said that the real product of Boston Dynamics is the company itself. They don't want to make a good robot dog, they want to tell a story.

What Boston Dynamics wants is to hype the concept and samples, because if it is really launched on the market, it will have to invest money to build a factory, invest money to improve technology, and face various after-sales problems, right?

This will make it difficult for them to make money. In comparison, making some PPTs and semi-finished products can make money, so why not?

And the way for this company to survive is to be sold back and forth, and it was sold to Google and even to the Koreans in the end.

Some people thought that robot dogs had no market and could not make a profit, but as Bionic Power developed the product, the cost continued to decline, and more application scenarios were discovered, it was discovered that the market did not seem to be the biggest problem.

There is nothing wrong with Boston Dynamics not developing products but only playing with concepts. If it really does so, it will only die faster, because it cannot compete with Bionic Power.

Let alone the advantages and disadvantages at the technical level, Boston Dynamics will definitely not be able to bear the cost. The reason is very simple. The current hollowing out of the industry is a major flaw that it cannot avoid. The cost of the robot dog produced by Boston Dynamics will be surprisingly high.

Bionic Power is backed by a country with the most complete and strongest industrial capacity in human history. Now the cost of a robot dog is 3,000 yuan, and the cost of Boston Dynamics to build one is not less than 6,000 US dollars.

The cost gap between the two is more than ten times. How can Boston Dynamics compete?

Why not play PPT to tell stories and learn from the Bionic Power Company of Dongda University to play with reality directly? Boston Dynamics said that it really can't play, it can't play, it can't play at all.

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