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Chapter 1409 [Completely leaving Boston Dynamics behind]

The development of robot dogs cannot be limited to 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 wouldn't be in such a predicament now.

The application scenarios of robot dogs in the civilian market are actually quite rich, and there is a lot of room for imagination. For example, guide dogs are one scenario, firefighting is one scenario, and so on.

When faced with a fire involving some explosive items, there is a risk of a secondary explosion, and allowing firefighters to approach to extinguish the fire is potentially dangerous.

With a firefighting robot dog, firefighters can be replaced to do these dangerous tasks.

Including tasks such as preventing or dealing with sudden forest fires, firefighting robot dogs also have a lot of room to play. When extinguishing forest fires, they can replace firefighters and rush to the most dangerous areas to carry out firefighting tasks.

In normal times, firefighting robot dogs can be sent out to patrol the forest to prevent accidents before they happen. Now, the Bionic Power Company has iterated and upgraded the robot dog technology, which can 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 started playing a video on the conference room screen, and smiled at Fang Hong, "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 began to play a route video, and Fang Hong also looked at the screen.

The scene in the video recording is on the sparkling sea surface. After a while, a consumer-grade aircraft is seen rushing out of the water and rising into the air. It is actually a flying and diving aircraft, which 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 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 kilograms and dive to a depth of meters. It can switch between the atmospheric boundary layer and the ocean 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 sea entry, the test aircraft is equipped with fixed wings and folding wings respectively."

"Compared with other structures, fixed-wing aircraft take less time to cross the medium and can directly cross the water-air interface. For diving aircraft, only a small thruster is needed as an underwater power source to achieve stable underwater navigation."

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

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

This combines the advantages of aerial vehicles and underwater vehicles, and can achieve not only high-speed cruising and mobile strikes, but also long-term endurance and covert penetration.

As the technology matures, it will become a powerful weapon when combined with missile technology.

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

Even the advanced version can perform "skipping stones"-like repeated sideways jumping actions. It is originally flying in the sky but suddenly dives into the sea. The enemy thinks that the interception is successful, a wave of tactical deception, but suddenly it hits the bottom of the ship at the waterline and explodes violently. It is really hard to defend against.

However, current technology still cannot achieve this effect, because entering the water at too fast a speed is no different from hitting a rock. If the aircraft slows down during entry into the water, 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 that the technical team will tackle.

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

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

When in flight, it can unfold its four rotors to become an unmanned aerial vehicle. When it enters the water, the four rotors will be folded, and the entire aircraft will become a buoy-like submarine, capable of concealed navigation at a depth of about 10 meters underwater for more than 40 hours.

When the mission requires, it can 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 in the air and position itself autonomously, it can also land in designated sea areas or on the water surface and dive underwater. After completing the underwater observation mission, it can jump out of the water and fly back autonomously.

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

This product is an interdisciplinary technical research, which is actually very difficult and requires technical experts from different fields to work together to achieve it.

Fang Hong is very satisfied with the technological progress of a series of projects of Bionic Dynamics. Although the company was founded ten years later than Boston Dynamics, its technological products have been far ahead of Bionic Dynamics, especially the mass production of products.

Robot dogs were actually first researched by Boston Dynamics, but they have not been able to measure energy so far. It should be said that Boston Dynamics' real product is the company itself. They don't want to make a useful robot dog, they want to tell a story.

What Boston Dynamics wants is to hype concepts and samples, because if it really launches it 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, they can make money by making some PPTs and semi-finished products. Why not do it?
The company's way of survival is to be sold again and again, first to Google and finally to Korea.

Some people previously thought that robot dogs had no market and would not be profitable, but as Bionic Dynamics developed the product, costs continued to fall, and more application scenarios were discovered, it was realized 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 does so, it will only die faster because it will not be able to compete with Bionic Dynamics.

Putting aside the pros and cons on the technical level, Boston Dynamics absolutely cannot afford 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 astonishingly high.

Bionic Dynamics is backed by a country with the most complete and strongest industrial capabilities in human history. Now the cost of building a robot dog is 3000 yuan, and the cost of building one by Boston Dynamics, a company owned by Boston Dynamics, is at least 6000 US dollars.

The cost difference between the two is more than ten times. How can Boston Dynamics compete?
Why not tell a story with PPT or learn from the bionic power company of Dongda University and play with reality directly? Boston Dynamics said that it is really impossible to play, not even a little bit.

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