Chapter 286: Lifetime
In order to present a white and red skin tone that conforms to the aesthetic taste of Oriental people, the skin of Xiao'an robot is not directly colored, but adopts a multi-layer structure similar to human skin, and uses soft materials of different materials with different transparency and color to simulate the transparent epidermis, highly elastic dermis and soft subcutaneous tissue of human skin respectively. From a distance, the inside of the artificial skin is red, but if you look closely, you will see that it is actually a dense red line on a white base, which contains a network of thin tube-like capillaries, as well as a pattern of red muscle fibers drawn directly on the bottom layer.
In this way, when the light passes through the translucent artificial skin dermis, it will be "illuminated" by the underlying red vascular network pattern, and the reflected red light will be refracted through the dermis layer and finally turn into a faint flesh pink.
In fact, there is no such thing as pink light in nature, which is an "illusion" unique to the human eye, just as we would see seven colors of light as white light.
This kind of flesh pink color formed by letting the red blood vessel pattern pass through the white translucent medium looks more textured and realistic than spraying the flesh pink skin pattern directly on the surface of artificial skin, and does not have the inconsistent rubber luster that is unique to ordinary plastic models and silicone dolls. For Xiao'an robots who pursue flying over the uncanny valley, the realism is endless, and only as close to 100% realism as possible can we avoid falling into the uncanny valley trap and causing consumers to feel bad, so even if the cost of using multi-layer skin has increased significantly, we have to choose it.
And the effect of this bionic multi-layer skin is indeed worthy of the complex production process and high cost, in the past, Xiao Mei could also let people see the traces of high-grade silicone dolls, but Xiao An could not see it at all, whether it was the picture recognition engine or netizens, they could not see Xiao An's fake at all. At least looking at photos and videos online, and actually viewing them at medium and long distances, you can't tell the real from the fake.
Only when you look closely, through the abnormal movement of the subcutaneous muscles, and the skin with only pores but no hair, can you see that Xiao An is not a real person. This is also something that can't be helped, although Xiao An uses a linear motor to simulate the stretching effect of skeletal muscle, which can simulate human limb movement better than traditional rotor motors. However, there are more than 600 pieces of skeletal muscles in human bodies, as well as an uncountable number of muscle fibers to form expression muscles and erector pili muscles, which are impossible to completely restore 100%, so they can only choose the best, and give priority to selecting muscles with obvious visual effects and less difficulty in simulation for simulation and realization.
In Xiao An's "abdominal cavity", there are no wires, gears, and geometric shapes that people have in the impression that the robot's torso should have, and the angular edges and corners are full of various parts of mechanical beauty, but the red skin that looks like human skin and the round red "internal organs".
The internal organs are made round to facilitate movement, and these internal "organs" are hung on the skeleton using elastic materials to facilitate bending and movement, so that when the torso is bent and rotated, they can also slide and translate appropriately, avoiding leaving strange bumps on the belly.
Xiao An's power system is composed of a carbon fiber skeleton and more than 100 linear motors and springs, and there are no mechanical parts in the abdominal cavity, mainly a long string of batteries that extend to the pelvis and thighs, as well as an artificial stomach, artificial kidney and artificial bladder. However, in addition to the artificial lungs used to simulate breathing and the artificial heart to simulate heartbeat, there is also a computer system fixed to the artificial sternum, which acts as Xiao An's brain.
As for her cranial cavity, there is no "brain", not that she has a big chest and no brain, but her simulated expression muscle system takes up too much space, resulting in insufficient available space in the cranial cavity, plus there is also a need to consider the problem of heat dissipation, so the computer module was moved to the chest cavity.
In fact, if Wu Qi had taken a closer look, he would have found that in addition to the slender objects other than the intestines with the thickness of his thumb and the two kidneys in the waist shape, there were actually two sac-like organs in the abdominal cavity, and they were completely different from the uterine pattern on the gynecological advertisement, which was Xiao An's artificial stomach and artificial bladder.
As a robot, Xiao An, who uses a battery to drive the motor and drive the movement of his limbs, naturally does not need human internal organs such as heart, liver, spleen, lungs and kidneys. Her heart, stomach, kidneys, bladder, and vascular system function very differently from their human counterparts.
Xiao An's organs are connected by blood vessels, and pure water flows into the blood vessels, which constitute a set of water cooling and heat dissipation system.
On the one hand, there is a heat source that flows from the heart through a computer and artificial muscles to take away the heat, and then flows into the capillary network of the skin throughout the body, and finally flows back to the blood vessels, through the kidneys and finally back to the complete circulation of the heart, on the other hand, the artificial skin is porous and will "leak" Under the action of water surface tension and water pressure, this part of the water "crawls" to the surface of the skin along the tiny sweat duct structure connected to the capillaries in the artificial skin, and finally evaporates into the air.
The reason for this design is also determined by Xiao An's extreme pursuit of human realism. This water-cooling system flows into the computer module and the linear motor module that simulates skeletal muscle, bringing its heat to all parts of the body, which avoids the danger of the computer module and the motor burning, and also achieves the waste utilization to make Xiao'an's body surface heat close to the human body.
However, relying solely on the skin surface to dissipate heat, when encountering high room temperature, thick clothing, strenuous exercise, excessive use of the brain, etc., it may cause the body surface temperature to exceed 36 degrees Celsius and cause fever. In order to avoid "fever sickness", the system will increase the rate of heart rate, increase the pressure of the water circulation system, promote "sweating", and thus rely on the evaporation of hot water to lower the body temperature.
In order to prevent the dissolved substances in the water from precipitating and adsorbing on the capillaries and sweat ducts and causing blockages, Xiao An can only "drink" pure water and keep it in the stomach, and then automatically replenish the water consumed by the skin according to the water pressure of the blood vessels.
In addition to the consumption of water caused by skin sweating and evaporation, some of the water is filtered and intercepted as it passes through the kidneys and becomes wastewater, which is stored in the bladder. This wastewater is naturally very different from human urine, and its composition is closer to that of air-conditioning wastewater. The open skin makes Xiao An have a degree of fidelity closer to that of humans, but it also brings the problem of air pollution, sweat escapes into the air along the sweat ducts, and the fine dust particles in the air can also enter Xiao An's circulatory system along the sweat ducts and capillaries. These two artificial kidneys are the closest artificial organs to the biological prototype on Xiao An's body, their function is to filter the impurities in the interception cooling water, the filtrate returns to the blood vessels to continue to act as cooling water, and the interception waste liquid flows into the bladder for storage, and most of the impurities and pollutants are adsorbed in its own filter. The reason why the double kidney structure is designed is to facilitate the use of one of them if necessary, and open and remove the filter element for cleaning and replacement. Xiao'an's filter element is composed of multi-layer composite filter media, and the filter material with large filter pores can be cleaned and reused, and the filter material with small filter pores can only be discarded.
As for the waste water in the bladder, it is usually discarded when the battery is replaced, but Xiao An also has a version of the skin that is fully enclosed and cannot be replaced with a battery, that version of Xiao An is unable to change the filter element on the abdomen, and the kidneys are equipped with a maintenance-free filter element, but this makes the wastewater production increase greatly, and the bladder is soon full. Therefore, the urethra is additionally designed to further simulate the action of peeing, which not only satisfies the special interests of some people, but also discharges wastewater in time.
Therefore, it is not entirely to blame Wu Qi's bad eyes, as a senior street photographer party, he boasts of having a pair of "eyes to find beauty", his eyesight is still very good, the reason for the misunderstanding, what to do by the man in blue is to cause panic and impatience is partial, and the decline in the IQ of the upper brain of the sperm just now is also a part, he himself did not listen well to the physiological and hygiene class when he went to school, and he did not know the structure and location of the human internal organs is part of it, and the biggest reason is that Xiao An's stomach is indeed very similar to human internal organs.
But by the time he understood the cause and effect now, it was already too late, his eating guy had already broken, and he had to pay for the maintenance by himself, after all, he had to ask for trespassing, and no one else was to blame. And the fake badge on his chest was also discovered by the security guards, but fortunately, they had no law enforcement power and just confiscated the badge and expelled him. Faced with the other party's threat that "if you don't leave, we will call the police and say that you shouted and killed people and almost caused a riot by disrupting the order of the exhibition, and sent you to the police station for free accommodation", he could only pick up the camera that was broken into two pieces and left depressedly.
In order to recover the loss, Wu Qi found an Internet café as soon as possible, took out the camera SD card, and edited and uploaded the photos saved inside, including a large number of photos he took of Xiao An Dance Troupe dancing, as well as a photo of a Xiao An robot tailgating from afar, and the amazing beautiful butt photo that made his mind dizzy.
Especially the close-up of the buttocks captured at close range, this is the clearest and most beautiful close-up photo of Xiao An on the Internet so far, which is very tempting, and immediately detonated the craze of clicking to reply, forwarding and liking, but it made Wu Qi, who stayed at Nikon's designated maintenance point and used his mobile phone to surf the Internet, feel a little more comforted. And soon he received another piece of good news, Bee Games and some other people contacted him to ask him to buy the original picture, and the bits and pieces added up not only to the camera repair fee, but also to make a small profit.
After seeing the good clicks and comments on these photos, Bee Games immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to take advantage of the hype and make a name for itself again, so it immediately took action to contact Wu Qi to buy the original pictures and make a more beautiful special page to push to specific bee users.
In fact, because Xiao An only appeared on last year's CJ, and then it was in full swing to continue to improve, and there has been no public sale, there have been very few photos and videos and materials about Xiao An on the Internet, and the corresponding topic is naturally getting lower and lower without new products, and finally it has become only a few die-hard fans who insist on sticking to the bar every day to encourage and maintain.
And this time Xiao An suddenly became popular because of a slightly rubbed back buttocks photo, neither the developer Digital Creature nor Bee Games realized in advance that out of fear of the uncanny valley trap, the attention of the digital creature is still focused on trying to enhance Xiao An's realism, and the appearance and temperament are constantly improving, so they have been reluctant to promote high-profile publicity.
However, since it has become popular, if they don't take advantage of the heat, it will naturally only destroy the heavens, so they immediately took action.
Especially the latter, the bee game is especially attentive and positive.
For the bee game that has not come up with heavyweight new games this year, and the so-called new games are actually old games, it really needs a hot topic that is heavy enough and attractive enough. On the contrary, it is the main digital biology company, except for the engineer who is responsible for providing on-site maintenance for Xiao An, they are no longer on site, and naturally everything is decided by the people of Bee Games.
In fact, in this summer's equity change, the three largest shareholders of Digital Biology Company, Bee Software, Bee Network, and Bee Computer have changed from the head office of Bee Group to Jiajing Company, which should be regarded as a subsidiary of the latter rather than a subsidiary of Bee Group. However, because some behind-the-scenes transactions on the three sides deliberately downplayed the problem, they were not announced in time.
The shareholders of the bee group "rebelled" and squeezed Atletico's shares into these four companies, mainly because Atletico Madrid always kept coming up with new technologies to provide these companies with cash or group shares.
The actual benefits of these technologies cannot be said to be none, but whether it is Atletico Madrid's ABC three-level operating system or Xiao'an robot, there are only long-term prospects at present, and the short-term benefits are not large. Therefore, they could not bear it, so they squeezed Atletico's shares into these companies through pressure like Atletico Madrid, through equity swaps, etc., so as to increase their share of the bee games and tourism real estate business.
Then Bee Games soon released a number of new online games, nominally to give players more choices, in fact, these new games are actually just a special version of the old version of the game, the engine, art resources, world view, and basic gameplay are the same, which can only be said to be a renamed and skinned game.
The reason why the original game was not directly changed was that the management took into account that Bee Games had been in business for three years, and had also accumulated the impression of "atmospheric, good, and cheap".
But even so, after the launch of the new version, there are still many old players complaining on the official forum and official scarf, "Is it the bee that let the rabbit or search the raccoon?"
Several new games such as "Daming Overlord OL" did refer to the charging model of more profitable online games such as Zhengtu, Tianlong Babu, and Dungeon when designing, greatly increasing the upper limit of equipment enhancement, selling a large number of permanent props, and reducing the difficulty for novices. At the same time, some overly complex and unprofitable systems have been deleted, for example, the original weather system that completely simulates real weather conditions has been changed to ordinary weather effects with only decorative effects, players no longer have to stare at the national weather forecast every day and then worry about floods, droughts, locust plagues, thunderstorms, and thunderstorms, and because the real-time interactive calculation of weather and terrain is reduced, a lot of system resource consumption is reduced, and the requirements for player configuration are also reduced a lot.
After further increasing the publicity efforts, the new game has indeed achieved good results, and there is clearly a sign of upward movement in the revenue growth curve of Bee Games. It is precisely because of this that the old players are scolding even more fiercely, they are afraid that the bee game will take advantage of the victory and chase after the current old version of the game to change all the current old versions of the game to a new mode, so they will be unlucky.
However, they are worried in vain, although the management is greedy for money, it has not yet reached the point of losing their minds, and the old players of Bee have actually been fed by Atletico Madrid's previous operation strategy, and it is difficult to adapt to other mainstream games. Without these games of bees, it is difficult for them to find a place where they can also show their intelligence and sweat instead of paper money and online banking, as long as the bees themselves do not die, they are the basic disk of bees, and they are the most stable.
Besides, although these old games are old, but in fact, the technology and concept are very new, and they have been evolving and changing according to the interaction between players and the system, and have formed their own world trajectory just like a living real world, many old players have regarded their game careers as an otherworldly adventure like soul crossing, which is a part of their lives, and if Bee Games dares to change the gameplay and settings of these games on a large scale, someone will run to the door of the company to block the door in protest every minute.
However, in this way, the players of the bee game are divided into two distinct player groups, the old players rely on the "classic" old game, and the new players are spinning around in the new server and new mode of the new game, disdainful of the old version of the old game, and have no idea what they are missing.
And because the bees have invested all their promotional resources in more profitable new games, the old games have not received much promotional resources, causing dissatisfaction among old players, and there are a lot fewer old players who have come to CJ to dismantle milk this year, and the atmosphere would have been worse if it weren't for the hard work of the Xiao'an Dance Troupe. Therefore, after learning of the farce that happened at the booth, the publicity department of Bee Games immediately took action, collected on-site monitoring and audience mobile phone videos everywhere, sorted out and edited them and posted them on the Internet, and even the existence of Atletico Madrid, the former CEO and current mascot, was also called on, and together they operated today's incident when someone was hot-headed and made a big fuss at the bee booth.
For a while, the flow of people at the Bee Games booth, official website and official WeChat official neck has increased a lot.
At that time, Atletico Madrid took out the topic of "robots and rights": does the robot have the right, Wu Qi entered the showgirl dressing room without permission, peeping and secretly filming the robot show wave t changing clothes and changing batteries, is it considered an infringement of the right to **?
Of course, Atletico threw out the concept of robot ethics of robot ** rights, but he himself didn't care about this, after all, seeing a truly intelligent robot is still a lifetime series of dreams. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net