Chapter 206: Tianyu Robot Makes Its Debut
As a top student of the Colombian Department of Communication, Eliza has been striving to become a female anchor with intercontinental influence since she entered the workplace. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE。 info
However, when she actually entered the Hawaiian Kiku TV station to start her career, she realized how far away this goal was.
As a local TV station for the state of Hawaii, Kiku has an audience of just over a million people who live in the country. Even if you add the floating population who travel to gold panning, it is only more than 2 million.
With such an audience size, there are few valuable news with highlights; Second, even if some parents have short controversial topics, it is difficult to set off any waves.
It's hard for a good woman to cook without rice!
Until a week ago, Mia, a girl from the Future Biolab Lab, found her and provided a news clue: the five laboratories will gather in the Kilauea Crater in a week to use robots to collect microbiota samples and conduct microbial research.
At first, Eliza didn't care. After all, the future biological laboratory is not very famous, and she has not even heard of it, so it is naturally not enough to constitute a news hotspot. It was just the professional ethics of being a journalist that prompted her to start gathering relevant information in order to make professional judgments.
I don't know if I don't check, and I'm shocked when I check it.
Although the Future Biology Laboratory is not famous, the other four of the five laboratories alongside it are thunderous and should not be underestimated. They are, Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley, Harvard, and MIT.
Not only that, Eliza also noticed that the proposal of these four laboratories is inextricably linked to the emergence of future biological laboratories. In this regard, TV stations and news media in the United States have successively reported on it.
However, little media attention has been paid to the plan for the five laboratories to gather in the crater of Kilauea a week later to collect samples of the microbiota.
With the professional instinct of a journalist, Eliza felt that she had caught a potential news clue. Colleagues who are familiar with the TV station were immediately organized to collect and prepare for this incident in the early stage until the arrival of the unified collection day.
On Saturday morning, Eliza got up early in the morning, took a cool shower, and changed into her favorite female anchor suit.
The full and round chest is very eye-catching, and the long and powerful legs are eye-catching. As a mixed-race child with a quarter of Chinese ancestry, Eliza is very confident in her external conditions. It's just that today's glamorous outfit is the first time since she worked.
At eight o'clock and ten points, Eliza arrived at Kiku TV. Ten minutes later, all the interview team she organized was there, including the editor, the cameraman, the helicopter engineer and herself, a total of four people.
The helicopter with the Kiku logo officially lifted off fifteen minutes later and flew straight to Kilauea, the island of Hawaii, to the southeast.
On the island of Hawaiʻi, the weather is a bit gloomy, and at first glance it looks like a typical climate associated with volcanic activity.
Half an hour later, the television helicopter landed at an observation point kilometres away from Kilauea Crater.
When Eliza stepped out of the helicopter, she found that four well-known laboratory teams had arrived, and only the slightly less well-known Future Bio Lab had not yet been seen.
In the crowd of the various team residents, Eliza first recognized Dr. Feynman, the project leader of the Harvard Microbiology Laboratory, according to the information in the character card in her memory.
At the premises of the Harvard Microbiology Laboratory, three transport helicopters and nearly a dozen experimental vehicles with basic biological equipment are lined up. There are more than 30 people, and several technicians are surrounding the seemingly clumsy robot for final debugging.
"Hi Dr. Feynman, I'm Eliza, a reporter for Kiku TV. Can you give me five minutes and do a brief interview with you? Eliza perked up and said with anticipation on her face.
It seemed that the appearance of the beautiful reporter played a role, and Dr. Feynman's eyes lit up slightly behind the thick lenses, and he stood there without moving.
"First of all, Dr. Feynman, I would like to ask you a professional biology question. It is said that the temperature of magma in the earth's crust is as high as several thousand degrees, but in such an environment, can there be microorganisms? Because in our common sense, microorganisms can be killed by boiling water. ”
Dr. Feynman pushed the lenses and said in the tone of a professional: "Boiling water can kill ordinary microorganisms, but there are exceptions, such as spores, paleontological fungi and other special categories. The spores contain heat-resistant enzymes and have a fine cell wall, so they have developed their heat-resistant properties and can survive in high temperatures above 100 degrees Celsius. This is also the reason why the spore virus is even more contagious. ”
“…… As for paleontological fungi, there is a class of thermophilic bacteria, which are even more tolerant to temperature than spore bacteria. This has already been confirmed by scientists taking samples from submarine volcanic craters. In fact, in the extremely hot environment of the crater, there are extremely thermophilic bacteria, which can even survive in environments of up to hundreds or thousands of degrees Celsius. The object of our sampling and research is this kind of extreme thermophilic bacteria. ”
“…… And one more point, I have to correct your statement. The temperature of magma in the earth's crust is higher the further you go to the center of the earth, and can reach several thousand degrees. However, the temperature of the crater, due to its proximity to the outside environment, has dropped to about 1,000 degrees Celsius. Even the lava that erupts from the crater and flows down the flow channel into the sea can drop to five or six hundred degrees. ”
"Ok, I understand, Dr. Feynman." Eliza then asked, "Then I just noticed that you guys are debugging the robot. IMHO, they look a little clumsy and cute, are you sure they can complete the microbiota sample collection task? ”
Dr. Feynman's face twitched, and he took a deep breath and said: "Our collection robot is a multi-legged robot specially developed by Google after acquiring seven robot manufacturers and combining the advantages of all their products. Moreover, Google has been at the forefront of the industry in the research and development of artificial intelligence, and I believe they will surprise us. ”
"OK, thank you, Dr. Feynman."
After a short interview, Eliza took the photographer to the robot that Google engineers were debugging and wrote: "You can notice that this collection robot looks like a big dog, but in some ways it integrates the characteristics of the Atlas anthropomorphic robot." ”
"Okay, let's take a look at the other teams' collection bots. Oh, and the robots at Oak Ridge Labs are from ABB. It looks robust and feels particularly sturdy......"
"MIT's robot is more like an eight-clawed spider......"
At this moment, the roar of a huge helicopter was heard. Eliza concluded the close-up of the four collection robots present: "Ladies and gentlemen, these robots look clumsy and cute, I don't know what you think, at least there is a gap between them and the robots I expected. Now let's take a look at the collection robot of the future biological laboratory, can it surprise us? ”
More than ten minutes later, Eliza, under the guidance of Mia, finally met the multi-legged intelligent robot provided by Tianyu.
"Hey, what you're seeing now is the collection robot of the future biolab. Oh buy high, are you surprised? At least in Eliza's opinion, it was a special surprise. When I look at them, I seem to be able to feel their spirituality, not just a cold machine. It's like, that's how intelligent robots should be. Yes, that's it! ”
“…… In contrast, the robots of the other four are like immature products. Next, they will carry out the task of collecting microbiota in a harsh environment full of magma. Regardless of your first impression, let's wait and see how they perform in the next missions. ”