Chapter 266 Showing Muscles
“Hello, everyone. I’m Lux. This episode is very interesting because we get to observe the entire recovery process of the Shenzhou-Light Armor from a first-person perspective.

After communicating with the front-line designers of Shenzhou-Guangjia, I learned that one difference between this launch and the last one is that the recovery process after landing will be completed entirely by a mechanical dog developed by Guangjia Aerospace.

This is also the first product of Guangjia Aerospace after it acquired a large number of robotics companies last year. It will be used in rocket landing and recovery."

Before this scene appeared, it was hard to imagine American Pentagon officials gathering together to watch a video from a Chinese up-host at Station B.

If this scene was filmed by a reporter and secretly sent to the New York Times, Lux would probably doubt whether her video was really so well shot that the Americans could study it frame by frame.

Then use this as material to make another video.

The officer in charge of playing the video quickly skipped the unimportant parts at the beginning and went directly to the scene after the rocket landed.

The picture clearly shows that four mechanical dogs appear one after another. They have a gray appearance and their movements are very smooth.

Only one thought flashed through the minds of the American GF officials present, and that was smoothness.

"China's robot dog technology has improved compared to two years ago."

"Don't worry, just keep reading."

Then four robot dogs walked around the rocket recovery cabin, extended a robotic arm and cut the rope connected to the parachute with one knife.

"You can see that the robot dog's movements are almost non-stop, which shows the robot dog's accurate image recognition and high-precision control capabilities.

You have to know that the rope is very thin, and it is difficult to capture such details with traditional motion capture.

After this video was sent to Lockheed Martin engineers, they thought it showed that China had a new algorithm for image recognition, which allowed the entire rope-cutting process to be done without any pause.

If this surprised them a little, then the subsequent process was terrifying.

Four mechanical dogs are distributed at the four corners of the rocket, and then fixed in pre-reserved positions, with each mechanical dog's four legs becoming one.

It is equivalent to these four mechanical dogs plus the first phase of the rocket recovery capsule forming a big dog. The rocket recovery capsule is its body, and the four mechanical dogs are its limbs.

Then they carried the rocket recovery capsule through complicated road conditions, up and down the Gobi Desert, and returned to the launch base in Jiuquan.

Of course the process was accelerated, but the capabilities displayed were horror stories for the American.

"The whole process showed that China's mechanical dogs have a very high level of balance and coordinated combat.

According to Boston Dynamics, they believe that the robot dog technology demonstrated by China in the past only has route advantages and low-cost advantages. It is more suitable for application in the fields of counter-terrorism and public security, and has no advantages over drones in actual warfare.

However, the ability to adapt to complex road conditions shown in this video has already reached actual combat level.

It can adapt to most mountainous areas, and its precise pattern recognition capabilities demonstrated by cutting ropes determine that it is likely to perform well during street fighting.

Boston Dynamics believes that if the technology shown in the video is to be used correctly, it will take them three years to catch up, and they will need to cooperate with external institutions and introduce artificial intelligence companies to provide algorithmic assistance.

Experts at Lockheed Martin believe that the best way to limit this electronic dog in war is electromagnetic interference, and it is unrealistic to use a pile of people to limit it.

Chinese netizens think that this rocket launch is a tribute before the Lunar New Year in 2026, but Americans don't think so.

Because the core of the robot dog displayed this time is two points: accurate graphic recognition and adaptability to complex road conditions.

Robot dogs are very sensitive and can be easily used in military applications.

In all sensitive areas, with China's production and manufacturing capabilities, that is, its ability to mass-produce troops, it is easy to overwhelm the opponent with a sea of ​​drones and mechanical dogs.

The Chinese don't have to take action themselves, but America can't stand just providing spare parts to forces like the Arc of Resistance and Russia.

You say I sell military weapons, no, I sell civilian equipment, all toys.

America is highly nervous about this and believes that such technology will change the existing situation.

“If they still want to do business around the world and don’t want to be isolated by major countries in the world, then they won’t do this.

"Yes, we have to give the White House an accurate report, which will provide a basis for the White House's subsequent decision-making on the geopolitical situation."

The mechanical dog displayed by China became the last straw that broke the camel's back.

After all, it is not easy to make a 180-degree turn like this.

Glaser published an article directly in the magazine "Foreign Affairs".

After this report came out, everyone finally understood.

Why say again? Because this happened more than once.

It has a similar effect to the Tokyo Special Investigation Department and the Goryeo Yongsan Base. After years of hard work, it can basically be regarded as the official voice machine of America.

"Can the Spring Festival Gala be replaced by a rocket live broadcast? It's just for show anyway. Instead of watching the Spring Festival Gala which is getting less and less interesting, why not let the God of Light give us something new?" "I can't believe that Light Armor Aerospace acquired 8 robot companies to come up with this thing. Can you imagine that the robot dog can also transform and combine?
This thing reminds me of Transformers and Gundam. Can Space have the entire Bumblebee to play with? If so, I will definitely buy it. "

“After watching the robot recovery of Light Armor Aerospace, I feel that Musk may want to acquire Boston Dynamics.

Compared to people going to collect it, it’s much cooler to have a few robot dogs carry it back to the base.”

"I'm curious, if robot dogs have become so advanced, will there still be humans on the battlefield in the future?"

"Have you forgotten that only China's robot dogs are this advanced? I read some professional answers on Zhihu, and they generally said that even Boston Dynamics can't achieve this level in complex terrain and accurate recognition."

"I feel that the main purpose of this rocket launch is to show off the robot dog. I also think that it has the greatest military use, and it is a way to show off its muscle to Europe and the United States before the Spring Festival."

"I'm curious about what Space's car will look like. It won't just be a giant robot dog, right?
Or an eight-legged spider, I'll definitely buy that."

The discussion among Chinese netizens was equally heated. On the day before the Spring Festival, Baidu held a press conference in Shenhai and Guangjia Aerospace.

Baidu has been losing ground in the search engine field and has been beaten down by Tencent's Hornbill AI. However, among young user groups, Baidu's market share has achieved a golden cross with Hornbill AI.

In other words, Rhino AI's market share has been growing, while Baidu's market share has been declining. When the two markets met for the first time, Rhino AI overtook Baidu.

Only among the middle-aged and elderly people does Baidu still have a relatively obvious advantage, but the problem is that the middle-aged and elderly people don’t use computers much anyway, so any advantage is useless.

Therefore, Baidu plans to go all-in on the driverless car track while it still has sufficient cash flow.

Their car-sharing business already has an advantage. After China liberalized driverless taxis, Didi, Alibaba and Huawei all entered the market.

Of course, each company has a different approach. Didi is naturally involved in the event itself, Huawei is cooperating with Wuling Hongguang, claiming to empower car companies, and Alibaba is looking for SAIC for cooperation.

Tencent did not take action on its own, but Tencent Cloud and Didi have carried out in-depth cooperation, which can be regarded as an action.

In short, everyone is competing for the track of driverless taxis. Baidu has an advantage, but the advantage is not obvious.

“I believe everyone has watched some video clips of the launch and recovery of the Shenzhou-Guangjia. After watching it, I realized that Guangjia aerospace has come so far in unmanned operations.

Now even the recovery process of the rocket after landing does not require human intervention.

I am also very happy that Baidu also provided help in this. The underlying navigation data of the robot dog is provided by Baidu's high-precision map.

After Lu Qi joined Guangjia Aerospace as vice president in charge of artificial intelligence research and development, Baidu and Guangjia Aerospace will have a lot of cooperation around artificial intelligence. "

Robin was in high spirits at the press conference. He invited Lin Jia to support him and wanted to sign a strategic cooperation agreement with Guangjia Aerospace.

Robin also hopes to reshape Baidu's brand image through such a strategic cooperation agreement, at least to prevent users from thinking that only Huawei's smart driving is the best and Baidu is not inferior at all.

What Baidu wants to do is not only driverless taxi-hailing, but also empower car companies like Huawei.

Therefore, brand image is very important. Baidu has a negative asset in terms of brand image, while Guangjia Aerospace has a positive image that is even more awesome than Huawei.

"In the next three years, Guangjia Aerospace will launch 1000 optical satellites into space for Baidu, jointly build Baidu TianQing optical network, and accelerate the arrival of L5 autonomous driving.

We are also willing to share Baidu's autonomous driving technology with our peers in the industry."

After the price of satellite launch was lowered, car companies began to discuss cooperation, and Baidu was the fastest to act.

For car companies, building satellite networks to improve the precision and accuracy of autonomous driving is definitely a good thing, but a good thing does not mean making money.

Especially after the widespread popularity of driverless taxis, car companies are hesitant about whether the car market will continue to expand in the future.

It's a very simple truth. The cost of taking a driverless taxi is definitely cheaper than buying a car. After getting in the car, you can do whatever you want.

There are even special cars that focus on price, premium cars that focus on comfort, and luxury cars. There is always a driverless car that can meet your needs.

The driverless car developed by Huawei and Wuling has the price down to 1 cents per kilometer. The entire car doesn't even have a driver's seat, with only four seats in total.

Once Huawei's dispatching network matures further, the cost will be further reduced.

Such developments make car companies very hesitant, because it seems that consumers' willingness to buy cars will only become weaker and weaker. If no one buys cars, then there will be no point for car companies to spend a lot of money to build satellite networks to improve autonomous driving.

Car companies don’t believe that they can be better than Baidu, Alibaba and Huawei in autonomous driving. This is unrealistic.

Therefore, Internet companies engaged in autonomous driving have a stronger desire in this regard than car companies.

The fastest mover is naturally Baidu, which was forced into a desperate situation by Tencent.

“We will form a strategic partnership with Guangjia Aerospace to explore the boundaries of autonomous driving technology together.”

(End of this chapter)