Vol 5 Chapter 1234: The first specific task of the π department

"Feng's garage?" Rubin was taken aback. He felt that he had met Feng Yiping again, but he did not expect him to be so extravagant.

They all built an airport not far from their capital to place the cars he likes. How many cars are there?

As for why it is an airport instead of a garage, he himself gave the answer. It is convenient for transportation. There are too many luxury cars, all of which take the plane to complete the journey from the manufacturer to the user.

Moreover, isn't the airport runway also suitable for testing?

It's just that, to build an airport to facilitate the transportation of luxury cars, this luxury is definitely the first in the world, but it also fits Feng's wealth.

Next, he is a little looking forward to how many rare antique cars can be seen here.

"Yes, the garage," Old Ma pointed to the small town next to him, "including over there."

Rubin can’t understand this. Looking at the layout of some small buildings, he can’t fit many cars. No matter how extravagant people are, it’s impossible to treat the cars they treasured as human beings and give them a warm decoration. Home.

"Yes, this is my garage. However, in my garage, there are more tools and equipment, and there are still many first-class talents using these tools and equipment."

Oh, Rubin now understands what they mean by "garage".

Indeed, in the United States, in addition to being used for entrepreneurship, the garage is also a workplace for many men.

However, if there are some conditions now, a more professional tool room will be built in the yard, and at the same time it will be used as an operating room, such as Rubin himself.

The workshop in his house where the robot is playing is a small workshop.

Sure enough, he followed Feng Yiping into the tall airport main building, and found that the lobby on the first floor was very empty. There were no cars at all, but at the other end, some ten-meter-high shelves were regularly placed against the wall. There are some cabinets.

He can't figure out what exactly is this arrangement.

But that Jack seemed to know, and he asked, "This is your experimental site?"

"Yes, how about it, not bad," Feng Yiping stood with his arms akimbo in the hall of thousands of square meters, "it is the same as the warehouse, isn't it?"

Rubin then asked, "Feng, are we going to develop aircraft here, the kind of drone you are talking about?"

He remembered all the conversations Feng Yiping had with him, and naturally he would not forget. Feng Yiping suggested that he should consider flying robots in the air.

"Or are we also developing rockets here?"

"There is no rocket," Feng Yiping patted on his shoulder again. "However, there are drones, but what we want to develop is not only drones, but a system. Let's go, let's talk to them. meet,"

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In the meeting room upstairs, a large group of people gathered in a short time. Rubin didn’t know any of these people. But you can see Feng Yiping’s attitude towards those people. He understands one thing very well. These people should all be not simple.

Of course it is not simple. Among the people Feng Yiping met today, there are three academicians of the two academies, and the most inferior is also a subject leader.

"Dear experts and professors," Feng Yiping opened with a smile, "It's really an honor to have the opportunity to work with everyone."

"Professor Dong, Professor Chen, when I was in school, I didn't have the opportunity to take your class. Now that I have this opportunity, I am really excited."

The two Dong and Chen he said are all academicians teaching at Tsinghua University.

Being able to invite these two foreigners, his Tsinghua background also helped a lot.

"I also think that among domestic entrepreneurs, I should be a little different. Although I also like some of our past cultural classics, I do not recommend finding solutions to all problems from the "Tao De Jing" and other documents. "

At this time, Ding Sanshi, who is recommending the "Tao De Jing" to everyone in a certain place, is innocent lying spear-let everyone come into contact with our traditional culture, there is a mistake!

But Feng Yiping can't talk about Tai Chi.

The old horse around him is a true fan of Tai Chi, and now he likes to talk about the essence of Tai Chi.

"I think that on many practical issues, most of the strange people hidden in the folk cannot count on it."

There are also a lot of celebrities and celebrities lying guns-they are the strange people who like and believe in the folk most.

Of course, these words made the old horse avoid some thunder.

"I still want to start with science to explore more possibilities,"

Rubin agrees with Feng Yiping's view, because in the United States, this is the practice of his peers.

"So I think that when you see the topics given by Mr. Pan for the first time, you will find it a little absurd or impractical,"

Pan Shimin looked down at the document in front of him.

She was worried that if she raised her head, she could not help giving Feng Yiping a few big eyes.

What you said is an understatement.

Do you know how embarrassing it is to be looked at by experts one after another with the look of "I'm afraid this is not a fool"?

"However, according to my personal understanding, whether it is some of our visions in the field of life, or those topics that are closely related to our lives in the future, it is not impossible to achieve,"

"Furthermore, the teacher taught me since I was a child that science is originally a bold assumption. Be careful to verify it."

"Of course, I admit that most of our previous topics were relatively broad, so today, I will make a specific request."

"This is the lobby on the first floor," he said, pointing to the picture on the big screen.

"You can think of it as one of the warehouses we are currently investing heavily in construction,"

"My requirement is that when the manufacturer's delivery truck arrives at our warehouse, it starts from the storage-to be precise, including the manufacturer's delivery truck, it is also determined by the warehouse."

"After searching, the system found that the inventory of some products was below the minimum standard, so it sent information to the manufacturer to request replenishment,"

"After the manufacturer's delivery truck arrives, it starts from the storage, and then according to the user's order, out of the warehouse, packaging, to sorting, to arranging the delivery of the express company, I think, all are completed by the robot controlled by the system,"

"Of course, we also have higher requirements for error rate and efficiency,"

"According to the data we have collected from the courier company, the employee who sorts the largest number of small items at present works 8 hours and sorts 2000 pieces. Of course, this is a very high standard."

"The efficiency of the robot, we will design it based on this standard for the time being,"

Lao Ma has been looking at the information in his hand, and then inserted, "It's just sorting, not packing and other processes."

Otherwise, if a robot can handle more than 200 parcels in an hour, the requirement is too bad.

"Of course," Feng Yiping nodded, "The express company will continue to ask for specific data."

The experts meditated.

Feng Yiping's request, if we really say it, based on current technical means, it seems that it is not impossible to achieve.

However, if you go deeper, you will find that this difficulty is not generally large.

For example, the system mentioned by Feng Yiping does not seem to be a simple system.

According to his request, the data that this system needs to process is not small.

Then, how to send instructions to these robots? How to coordinate between these robots? For example, how to avoid them from being congested in the channel? ...

"Mr. Rubin is an excellent robotics expert. I think he should be able to provide a lot of advice for everyone," Feng Yiping said to Lu Bing. "Rubin, you can have a part-time job here in the future."

"Of course, making the warehouse fully automated is still the first step. Next, we have to develop how to get these robots out of the warehouse and send the user's orders directly to the users."

"The initial request was very simple. We sent the order from this hall to everyone's research room in the nearby town."

"The way of delivery, I think, not only can there be people running on the ground, but also flying in the sky,"

Only then did those experts understand what kind of use the drone Feng Yiping wants to develop.

But this requirement is more difficult.

Let alone control, how to plan a route and how to locate it is another big problem.

You should know that the navigation systems on cars and mobile phones often lead people in the ditch.

Besides, when a robot walks out of the warehouse, it is not just robots. People and cars, how should they take the initiative to avoid them and how to pass traffic lights safely? ...

This again seems to be simple, and it is not a general and complicated subject to implement.

Some experts thought about it, oh, it turned out that he had taken this need into consideration when he established an electronic map company with NAVTEQ.

"After this, I hope we can develop an unmanned convenience store, where the stocking and sales of this convenience store, including settlement, are controlled by the program,"

"I hope that in the future, we can have such a store open in this small town,"

He said it simply, but the experts are a bit big heads.

This seems to be a magnification of the current unmanned vending machines dozens of times so that people can enter directly.

But this difficulty has increased more than tens of times.

The most realistic problem is that the goods in the unmanned vending machine will not be spit out without money.

But in an unmanned store, the goods are displayed on the shelves. What if someone takes it and runs away?

Someone did not check out, close the door immediately to make it easy to achieve.

However, there is more than one customer patronizing the store at the same time. You shut up a large group of people at every turn. Who wants to patronize again?

Therefore, this idea is difficult!

Lao Ma also remembered something at this time, "Can the facial recognition you mentioned be applied here?"

"I think it can," Feng Yiping said.

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When he went downstairs, Rubin did not follow them. Among the experts upstairs, there were many of his colleagues. He and those people had more common languages ​​than Feng Yiping.

"Is there anything strange here?" Old Ma asked.

"Curious, that's all," Feng Yiping said, pointing to the cabinets against the wall.

"Lockers?" Old Ma said dismissively.

These cabinets are very common in supermarkets and stations.

"You see, the most time-consuming link of the express company is the final delivery link. Not to mention the other is that the customer agrees to go downstairs to pick up the package~www.wuxiaspot.com~A customer on the 18th floor, from receiving the courier It takes 3 minutes to pick up the package from the clerk, right? That’s a must.”

"You mean to put these cabinets in the community, put the goods they bought online in these cabinets, and let them pick up?" Lao Ma said.

"Correct,"

"The question is, what do users use to open the lockers? In order to improve the utilization rate, we can never set up an exclusive locker for every household in the community."

"Also, we know when the user took his express shipment? How does the user inspect the goods? How to ensure the safety of the goods in the locker?..."

Speaking of this, Lao Ma is very clear, and the specific questions are one by one.

"We are currently working on the issues you mentioned,"

"You see, the opening of these lockers is controlled here," Feng Yiping said, pointing to the small cabinet with a touch screen. "Our idea is that the courier asks the user to agree to put the courier into the storage. After the locker is closed, the system will send a text message to the user's mobile phone, which is the password to open the locker.

"At the same time, the time when the user opens the locker will pass here and be fed back to our system, let us know that this single delivery has ended, and this locker can be used again..."

"Of course, there are many more specific problems, but we are solving them in an orderly manner,"

"This can be said to be the final 100-meter solution for express delivery. Correspondingly, in the future, we also hope that another device can be installed in some hotspots, that is, to automatically collect the user's express delivery and notify the courier as soon as possible. The pickup device is the solution 100 meters before the start of the express..."

Lao Ma looked at Feng Yiping, "You have a brain!"