On June 4, the Aviation Development Commission again released some images of the two-month surface rover, focusing on brief images of the explorers dusting the solar panel array near Yutu-2 and the lander.

Scott Maxwell, the ground-based remote pilot of NACA's Curiosity rover, also saw it on the tubing, and the explorer used the spider foot in front of him to unfold the charged brush, gently brushed the solar panels placed on Yutu-2 and the array on the ground, adsorbed the charged moon dust on it, and then turned it around to change the direction of the current and release it.

The whole process was quick and gentle, and when NACA's planetary probe team watched, they thought of more than just the praise in the comments and the symbolism of friendship for the two rovers.

Scott dragged the progress bar and restarted playback at one node.

In the picture, the spider's feet with brushes first circle the seemingly irregular plane on the solar panels of Yutu-2 a few times, and then begin to brush off the moon dust in a zigzag pattern.

The video pauses, and Scott looks at the others:

"Do you see that? The way this robotic arm moves is not normal. ”

A chubby Latino engineer, Boris touched his chin, thought for a moment, put the video from where he had just been, and then spoke:

"These," he said, gesturing to the robotic arm on the screen that moves above the solar panels.

"The height of the process hasn't changed, so what is this probing...... I understand that this is to determine the shape and position of the solar panel through the camera or some other sensor, and then adjust the wiping route. ”

Scott nodded:

"There's no need to do it if it's manipulating."

Boris: "I know what you're trying to say, you think it's an automatic decision. ”

Scott: "Yes, the automatic program needs to hover the brush at a tiny distance above the solar panel and not wipe it like a window cleaner, so the height needs to be determined;

And then there's such a fluid and continuous movement that it's almost impossible for a person to maneuver, maybe on the ground, but not on the moon. ”

Yes, the moon does not work, the delay is too high.

The team members exchanged glances with each other, and then one of them said tentatively:

"So the Chinese have a lot of programs built into the explorer?"

Scott: "No, artificial intelligence to be exact. ”

Artificial Intelligence, AI, the word was still very fashionable in 2016, when people's impression of artificial intelligence was still stuck in playing chess, and they felt that the real AI was a robot or computer program in science fiction movies.

Scott continued: "Not only that, but also their explorers are using leapfrogging, and the coordination of the eight legs is very complex, and the probe has to have a built-in adaptation and adjustment system, and I think that the one that can do this can already be called artificial intelligence.

We can make robots, and they can be bigger and better, but this kind of adaptive attitude control system can't. ”

Boris: "The Chinese put AlphaGo on the detector and it greatly increased the range of the detector, and my God, I think it will take at least 5 to 10 years before you can apply these technologies, and terrain is not a game of chess. ”

Scott: "Gentlemen, we'd better have NACA do the research as well, and if Curiosity can have an AI like that, it can circumvent the obstacles on its own, and we can just lie down and wait for a steady stream of data." ”

……

"Mr. Claire, think about how great it would be for us to have an AI on an alien planet, if there was a rover that we could make endless prospecting on his own, and nuclear power would provide it with endless time;

If there are 10 of them, we can mine them, and if we have 50 of them, we can produce our own parts and build human habitable bases on Mars and the moon at no cost to us......"

“Stop！ (Stop)"

Director Claire stopped the boasting of the head of the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) AI lab in front of him in time, and then pointed to Buzzfield, Google's AI research group, next to him.

"These tricks don't work for me, and now NACA's main mission is to go to the moon, and I don't have time to go to the Senate for your money."

Barzfield: "But Mr. Director, the control team of the Curiosity has shown you some of the trivial features of artificial intelligence, but you obviously don't know the true potential of artificial intelligence. ”

Claire: "The average level of education in the Senate is not even that of a university, gentlemen, they are the ones who call the shots. ”

Bazfeld: "What if I say that Huaguo may have taken the lead in this regard?" ”

Claire applauded with satisfaction: "Please remove the 'maybe', now I think this project is worth at least $500 million, and you can join the 'Perseverance' project team." ”

……

"Hey, what kind of madness is Amigo, and suddenly he wants to engage in artificial intelligence learning."

Faced with the boss's doubts, Lin Ju guessed some reasons but his face did not change:

"I don't know, maybe you want Alpha Dog to play chess?"

Big guy: "Chess? Professional players can't even play chess whirlwind, and they still need Alpha Dog, you see what they say will be used on the Perseverance rover launched in 2020, and it will also be equipped with an ultra-long robotic arm? It's hard to say because the explorer has changed. ”

Explorers? The AI capability of the X32035 chip on it is a big cut beyond the times, and the SC09 castration version is also strong enough, but it can't be easily leaked.

Lin Ju: "Explorers are sensors...... It's going to fly, it's going to fly, let's watch the rocket. ”

On June 6, at the Qiongzhou Cosmodrome, the No. 4 module of the Hira space station was launched.

The launch of the space station went smoothly, but I don't know why these clergy calculated what they thought was the most auspicious time, and went to pray for the rocket at 3 o'clock in the morning, forcing the staff at the launch site to take hot dollars to dance with the dog.

When the Xinyuan-2 rocket, which had been reused for the eighth time, was recovered from the recovery tower at the Xinyuan launch site, Director Huang of the Launch Management Bureau informed Lin Ju of a small news:

Stations 1 and 2 at the Qiongzhou launch site will be closed for seven days, citing tree cutting......

After the closure of No. 1 and No. 2, there are No. 3 and No. 4 stations, not only to read books, but also to build a simple firewall around it.

The reason is that the tail flame of Xinyuan No. 2 A is too large.

At the beginning, Xinyuan No. 2 burned the forest, cut down a piece, Xinyuan No. 2A came again, and then thought of the bigger Xinyuan No. 3, Director Huang felt that he needed to take precautions, so he simply cleaned up all the vicinity of the four stations.

This is also worth it, in the past few years, the space bureau has not launched a rocket in Qiongzhou once, and the launch administration has undertaken so many rocket launches of Xinyuan Company, and every time it has given money, and there are a lot of red envelopes.

As for why the Xinyuan launch site is not used?

In order to save some money, Lin Ju didn't have any greenery at all, except for a few pitiful landscape trees, and the cement was smeared to make do.

(End of chapter)