Chapter 262: Atletico's ABC
The principle of this sweeping robot is actually not complicated at all,Strictly speaking, it can only be said to be an automatic sweeping machine,I'm a little sorry for the three words in the name"Robot。
The concept of RO wave t robot originated from science fiction writers, and then generations of writers, cartoonists, film and television directors joined in to continuously improve the concept, put forward the three laws of robots, created a vivid image of robots, and even formulated a "mechanical ethics" for them to regulate robot behavior, what must not harm humans, not self-reproduction, etc.
However, the development of robots in real life is far behind the theory, so mechanical ethics, Asimov's three laws, four laws, etc., are just like the legendary dragon slaying technique that has no dragon to slaughter, and it is not useful at present.
The concept of "robots" conveyed to the public in literary and artistic works, film and television games, etc., is basically "human beings who are not human beings", they are not natural human races, but they can do things that only human beings can do. In these works, there is no shortage of robots who fall in love with humans, and they also have similar joys, sorrows, sorrows, and feelings and various ** like humans, they are simply people without skin. However, in reality, robots are just automatic machines that can perform some specific functions automatically, and they are still far from the concept of "human".
Robots in reality usually have three parts: sensors, control systems, and mechanical motion systems, as long as a device has these three parts, and the three can cooperate with each other to achieve specific functions, it can be called a robot.
So the guy running around on the ground is also a real robot, although it is not very different from the average person's impression of a robot. In fact, there is not much difference from the electric toy car that runs around on the ground,Compared with those advanced toy cars with sensors that can automatically avoid human feet and table legs,The so-called sweeping robot is just an electric brush that can sweep and absorb the garbage on the ground,And the corresponding garbage storage module。 Of course, if the toy car has an automatic driving function, it can automatically avoid obstacles and prevent being stepped on, it can also be said to be a robot, or an autobot?
In fact, this sweeping robot is running around on the ground like pollen particles in the water doing Brownian motion, in addition to the problem of the path-finding algorithm, and the designers of Bee Electronics are too picky enough to pick the door, and it has nothing to do with the lack of rich sensors installed on it. It has only an infrared sensor composed of infrared LEDs and infrared photodiodes, and does not have any sensors for attitude control, in fact, it is more like a flagellate running on the ground. This single-celled protozoan relies on the flagella on the cell to move and sense the outside world, and the pairs of wheels under the chassis are equivalent to the flagella of the flagellate, and the infrared sensor is the light-sensitive point at the base of the flagella.
Relying on the infrared sensor, the robot vacuum cleaner can detect the nearest foreign object on the ground, and then drive towards the target under the drive of the control system, and start the cleaner to swallow the garbage into the "stomach", and then automatically rotate again to find the next nearest target. If it is repeated, it will automatically find a corner and enter the standby state after no garbage is found in the set cleaning range until there is no garbage in the set cleaning range.
There is no doubt that the lack of sensors and drive motors will obviously reduce the work efficiency of the sweeping robot, but this sweeping robot named "Little Ant" is so grandly listed with such a simple configuration, all just to save money. The "little ants" of the bee house only cost 200 yuan, which is the cheapest sweeping robot. Although its cleaning efficiency is not high, but the energy consumption and noise are also not high, you can set it to automatic plot mode, put it on the ground and don't care, when the power is low, it will automatically be charged with a special charging base. It's completely possible to do what the advertising slogan says: "Professional cleaning of otaku rooms!"
Of course, for buildings such as duplex apartments and multi-storey villas with tall indoor stairs, there is nothing that can be done about the "little ants" who do not have the function of climbing stairs, and from this point of view, the name is a bit inappropriate. But it can't be helped, flagellants, euglena, chlamydomonas, paramecium and other protozoa are so far away from most people's lives that these names do not convey the product message at all. As a garbage collector in nature, ants are very suitable for conveying the product function and image of this sweeping robot.
And this little ant robot also because of the cheap price and practical functions, soon became a few products with sales of more than 100,000 bee electronics, and bee wireless film and television box, became the two vanguard of bee electronics invasion of the home appliance industry, and laid a solid foundation for bee's ABC closed-loop plan.
The so-called ABC plan is actually the Internet of Things plan of Bee Group or Atletico Madrid. According to the popular concept of the Internet of Things, in the future, everything will be connected to the Internet, and everyone will be able to work intelligently, share information, and command and manipulate remotely. From the alarm clock, curtains, bedroom lights in the morning, the water heater and electric toothbrush in the bathroom, to the kitchen appliances, as well as cars, trains and airplanes. Of course, this naturally includes personal computers and smart phones that are now networked, and all electrified electrical appliances in people's lives in the future should be intelligent and networked, so that people's lives are more comfortable and convenient.
For the Bee Group, which adheres to the principle of "beautifying life with science and technology", such a concept is undoubtedly very attractive, so it is also a headlong rush into it. Just like there is no real unified standard for smart home appliances, there is no unified standard for the Internet of Things.
Atletico Madrid's ABC plan is to design and launch three different operating systems and software platforms for different application scenarios, independent of each other but precisely cooperable.
Among them, A is the ANTOS ant system carried on the "Little Ant", which is derived from the simplified version of the Bee OS used by the big dragonfly drone. After three years of serious study and practice, Atletico Madrid has made drastic improvements to it after mastering more professional knowledge and more experience. It can almost be said that it is an overthrow and reconstruction, the new antos still uses a micro-core architecture, but the number of code is more than half less than the original Bee lite, and the requirements for hardware performance are much lower than the original, but it can ensure that the function and stability do not shrink.
It can be said that antos is the pinnacle of Atletico Madrid, giving full play to its own cyborg strengths, perfectly and steadily squeezing out the last trace of potential in the hardware, one less point is waste, the cost performance is not max, and one more point is unstable. The biggest strength of ANTOS is that it perfectly schedules hardware resources, maximizes output and maintains the best stability at the same time, so as to avoid the equipment becoming hot, hanging cold, turning bricks into collapse, and restarting is as necessary as drinking water. It is with it that the "little ant" can run happily using a simple "body" that costs less than a hundred yuan.
At one time, some manufacturers followed the trend to produce similar intelligent sweeping robots, using similar configurations to small ants, and some were even a little higher, but their actual use effect was not as good as that of the little ants with worse hardware, because although these manufacturers copied the hardware configuration and antos, but the antos used in their products were passively "paddling" and did not play their full strength.
Antos is actually a low-structure operating system, very tightly integrated with the hardware, and the basis for its ability to realize the full potential of the hardware is the dedicated driver library prepared by Atletico Madrid. Genuine antos can be used with the cooperation of flashing software,Choose to load different drivers according to different usage scenarios and hardware environments,And piracy naturally does not have this convenience,Poor performance is normal。
As for B, it naturally refers to beeos, the new version of Bee OS, still runs on various smartphones and PMP, wireless film and television boxes and other devices, the function focuses on graphics processing and display direction, and the main purpose is video playback and game support. Therefore, although the new version of BeOs has not completely become Bee's own exclusive OS, other manufacturers can still use it for free, but the scope of support for devices has been greatly reduced. Most feature phones can't run the new version of beeos, after all, their processors and video decoding chips are relatively weak, and the screen is also terrible, and there is basically no potential for retrofitting and upgrading.
And C is the CATOS cat system,This is the operating system exclusively used by bees,To be exact, it can not be regarded as exclusive self-use,After all, the bee software is not only authorized to be used by bee electronics,It is also authorized to the big sword of Hong Kong Island,The little charm robot equipped with the cat system has been officially listed on Hong Kong Island。 However, considering the identity of the owner of the Great Sword Company, it is not too much to say that it is a family. As an operating system running on Xiaomei, Xiao'an and other simulated robots, the cat system focuses on simulating the physical characteristics of humans or other animals and interacting with humans in terms of language and movement.
The cat character in the name of the cat system not only means that it is a more advanced existence than the two insect systems, but also hopes that it can have a trace of emotion and personality like cats, "famous neuropathy in the animal world", even if it is simulated.
Of course, there is another reason that this "bionic system" that simulates animal behavior and thinking was designed to imitate cats in the earliest days, but this is a black history of Atletico Madrid. Most girls have little resistance to fluffy, round animals, whether it is a hamster of tens of grams, a giant panda of more than 100 kilograms, or even a polar bear with the largest carnivore on land weighing 1,000 kilograms. So one day, after hearing Tang Jiayi say to herself that there were two people in the family who were a little empty, Atletico took action and used motors, mechanical bones, sensors and processors to make a robot cat and give it to her.
Instead of using a shiny silver shell with a sci-fi style like the Sony AI poodle, the cat uses faux fur that has been removed from the plush toy and carefully trimmed by him. With the cat system specially created for Atletico Madrid, this cat has a lifelike appearance, and its movements and demeanor are completely a cat, at least Tang Jiayi The four girls in her dormitory, as well as the girls in the surrounding dormitories, did not believe that this cat was actually fake, until they pulled up the tail of the robot cat according to the instructions and found that there were no chrysanthemums below to confirm that this was indeed not a real cat.
Tang Jiayi named the robot cat with the appearance of Garfield "Ah Huang", and this name has also been recorded in history. Ah Huang is the first bionic robot pet in history, and the first robot pet in history to die at the hands of an animal pet.
The girls can distinguish the robot cat by raising their tails to see if the chrysanthemum is there, and the stray cats on campus don't have this patience, so a month after sending Ah Huang, Atletico Madrid received "bad news", and the girl cried on the phone and told him: "Ah Huang was bitten to death by a wild cat!"
The cause of its death was homicide, while basking in the sun on the wall near the girls' dormitory and waiting for the girl, Ah Huang was attacked by a stray cat roaming the school and fell off the wall, probably because they thought that "Ah Huang" was going to grab land with them, right?
As a robot cat, Ah Huang does not have the developed balance system of a real cat that cannot be killed, nor does he have the bamboo dragonfly of another more famous robot cat, Doraemon, so it is not surprising that he fell and broke it. The plastic faux bones on its body had been broken, the faux fur had been torn to reveal its internal structure, and possibly some of the cables had broken off, causing the system to shut down and not restart. Because the system hung up and couldn't respond to the girl's call, Tang Jiayi called Atletico Madrid in a hurry and said that Ah Huang was dead.
Although Atletico said that it was only a matter of a few days to remake a Ah Huang, even if he wanted to strengthen his fighting power and revenge, he didn't have to wait for more than a month, but it seemed that he was emotionally hit, and the girl rejected Atletico's proposal and found a place to bury it.
Not only that, Tang Jiayi also asked Atletico to stop manufacturing robot cats, robot dogs and other bionic robot pets, she believes that those stray cats are innocent, and it is not easy for them to make a living to feed a family, so they are reasonable to protect food. And she also thinks that if the bee company officially sells robot pets similar to Ah Huang, this kind of artificial pet that can sell cute and commit two without pooping, peeing, tearing the sofa and biting slippers will definitely steal the love of many pets and create more stray cats and dogs. So for the sake of love and peace, we can't make this money!
At that time, hearing her say this, Atletico Madrid directly said Girl, you really think too much, except for a small part of those stray cats and dogs who ran away by themselves, most of them were abandoned by their owners and the stray second generation of stray cats and dogs continued to breed. He believes that these cat slaves and dog slaves who have no perseverance and love and are not competent enough to seduce them to join the ranks of robot pet players can reduce the sales of pet cats and dogs, and there will be no abandonment without buying and selling, and there will be fewer and fewer stray cats and dogs.
However, while the men rationally analyze the evidence and lay the data, the girls prefer to look at the problem from an emotional point of view. In the end, he was defeated, followed her advice, and shelved the commercialization plan of the robot cat and dog pet. But he didn't suffer a loss, and after this day, he had several more cosplay suits for Catwoman and Kitsune in his wardrobe.
Of course, this also has something to do with the immaturity of the first-generation cat system, Atletico Madrid originally had the idea of suspending the launch of the furnace improvement, and agreeing to the girl's request was more just a push.
Ah Huang's "death" has a lot to do with the artificial fur on his body. Because the thick fur seriously affects the heat dissipation, the system can not be turned on at full speed most of the time, and the external manifestation is that Ah Huang is lazy and loves to lie in the sun somewhere, and at this time it will be relatively sluggish, which is the "main" view of the reason why it was attacked by the stray cat and easily fell off the wall.
And the reason why the era of Xiaomei did not go on the all-electric for the first time, there are considerations of heat dissipation, and even now Xiao'an still can't move the lower half of his body, "half of the body" is also because of this reason, half an hour or even more of continuous exercise will lead to a lot of heating, and a special heat dissipation system needs to be designed additionally. However, the development team has developed a water-cooling system that mimics the human circulatory system, which can evenly transfer the heat emitted by the electric motor and CPU to the whole body without burning the motor and CPU. Even in extreme cases, "they" can quickly dissipate heat by evaporating pure water coolant in a sweat-like way.
However, cramming so many systems into that slender body will bring about a decrease in battery life and an increase in cost, and there is no hope of going public for the time being. However, the little charm that uses the second-generation electronic control joint is selling very well in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and even its reputation has spread to the island country, and there are a lot of character cards with Japanese names and Japanese materials on the big sword 2L server.
The CATOS cat system is not the whole of the robot control system, it is more of an analog artificial intelligence system that focuses on behavioral simulation. Whether it's Xiao Mei or Xiao An, they also have antos in their built-in ROMs, the ant system is the body, the contact hardware, and the cat system are used to simulate the personality. The situation of BEIOS is similar, so the bee mobile phone system should be called the AB system, and the Xiaoan robot system should be called the AC system.
This situation is the result of Atletico's deliberate letting go, and as the company grows, the number of codes he contributes to all bee products is still the largest in the group, but the overall proportion is decreasing. For the healthy and normal development of the company, Atletico Madrid has been trying to find a way to let go, but it has not been completely released, and when encountering some problems, everyone still subconsciously wants to find the boss to solve them.
The ABC plan can be said to be the result of Atletico Madrid's ruthless destruction, and he has completely let go of the daily business of software companies and network companies, and only retains control of the hardware platform and security system. He took out the antos that he had worked so, and continued to write various hardware drivers, and the various applications on it were completely left to the programmers of various departments to do it themselves.
As for himself, he put all his energy into fighting with the students and teachers of the school's software school. Finally, looking back at the picture of Li Lei, Han Meimei, and her early love on the wall, Atletico bent down to pick up the little ant sweeping robot that was already on the ground, and left with a smile. For mobile phone users, please visit http://m.piaotian.net