Genius of the Rules-Style System

Chapter 253: Chapter 190: A Study of the ’Mechanisms Most Suitable for Making Money’

By the time Zhao Yi arrived at the Intelligent and Automation Lab, the robot’s stress response test was about to begin.

The small conference room on the first floor had been cleared out, with many people standing at the entrance and along the walls, looking at the robot in the middle.

"Zhao Yi, over here!" Qian Zhijin waved from the doorway.

Zhao Yi walked over and took a look around. Realizing there were at least twenty people, he asked with some surprise, "So many people?"

"They all came."

Qian Zhijin meant the people from the Intelligent and Automation Lab had all come to watch the robot test. He then introduced Zhao Yi to Professor Liu.

Zhao Yi immediately knew who he meant.

Liu Guangzuo. freёwebnoѵel.com

The leading figure in the Intelligent and Automation Lab and the universally acknowledged ’number one professor’ of the lab. In terms of rank and importance, his title equates to Qian Zhijin’s ’big brother’.

Liu Guangzuo has a round face and is bald, wearing square glasses. He looks like a prototypical ’middle-aged working man’. He greeted Zhao Yi warmly and complimented the robot technology, "When I first heard about your development of a Dynamic Image Recognition technology, I had my doubts whether it was true."

"I’ve seen the video you filmed, it’s amazing. Our lab currently only has dynamic color recognition, and that can only recognize broad categories of colors, so recognizing objects is beyond our dreams."

"This technology would certainly be cutting-edge on an international level."

After making these remarks, he patted Zhao Yi on the shoulder vigourously, exclaiming, "Such promising youth!"

Zhao Yi thanked him.

Xu Chaozheng was in the middle manipulating the robot. He waved over to them, asking, "Can we start now?"

Liu Guangzuo looked at Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi nodded.

Qian Zhijin then called out, "Let’s start now!"

Despite the grandeur of the robot testing scene, it was actually a small test and most people were there to enjoy the spectacle.

The team had set a simple object recognition task for the robot: to recognize fruits, then place the specified fruit in the designated spot.

This task combined dynamic recognition, pathfinding, and the operation of the mechanical arm - all of which the robot already had the capability to perform.

The main goal now was to test the robot’s stress response to humans. Two people walked over and stood next to the robot, picking up items with it. One even intentionally picked up the same item as the robot, and the mechanical arm visibly slowed down.

When both the person and the robot touched the same item, the robot simply let go. It seemed to pause its operations until the person actually took the object, then the robot gradually sped up its operations and reached for another identical item.

"Clap... clap... clap..."

The small conference room instantly erupted with applause.

The test was successful.

The next test involved direct contact between the robot and a person. A person intentionally got close to the robot. Whether they touched the robot’s body or its mechanical arm, the robot clearly slowed down.

Once actual contact occurred, the robot immediately stopped operating.

In reality, it wasn’t a complete stop - there was no ’stop’ setting in the program. Rather, it was set to operate at an extremely slow speed, so slow that the arm moved only 10 centimeters in 20 seconds. This speed was slow enough for a human to react.

The robot’s stress response test had loopholes, mainly because the camera and sensors couldn’t cover all angles and areas. There were definitely blind spots. The robot would not trigger the stress mechanism if someone approached from directly above or from a skewed downward angle.

For instance, if someone ’crawled towards the robot’, it wouldn’t be able to sense human proximity. Even if the camera captured the movement, it would have difficulty recognizing the person as a human instead of a moving car or box.

However, what’s already accomplished is quite impressive.

The test ended.

The people who had gathered in the conference room once again applauded. Everyone enthusiastically discussed the robot’s dynamic recognition, pathfinding, mechanical arm operations, stress responses, and other technologies.

In fact, the most impressive part of the technology is not only its capability, but also the fact that it relies on ’existing hardware support instead of more advanced hardware’. Computer technology cannot exist without hardware. Software and programs only unlock the potential of the hardware.

Being able to achieve this level with the support of existing hardware means software design has reached its peak.

"It’s indeed amazing!" Liu Guangzuo continued to express his admiration, "I used to think that to realize dynamic recognition, we would have to wait for at least a few years for the next generation of hardware to be developed. But it turns out that just by adding more cameras and improving software design, we can achieve this."

"The stress response is also very good. I heard you finished it in half an hour?"

Liu Guangzuo asked Zhao Yi, praising him.

Zhao Yi spent less than an hour writing the program code for the stress response, solving the problem Qian Zhijin’s team had been discussing for a week. The whole lab was buzzing with excitement, and everyone enjoyed talking about it.

Some praised Zhao Yi’s high skills, and some couldn’t help scoffing at Qian Zhijin’s skills.

Qian Zhijin was not comfortable hearing this. The truth was that Zhao Yi was highly skilled, and it had nothing to do with him or his team. He admitted that the other two professors in the lab were stronger in computer research, but when it came to coding, it wasn’t necessarily true that they were better than him.