The technological competition starts with the integration of space-time memory

Chapter 34 True Firefighting Drone
This week, Li Tang, who just returned from Beidu to receive an award, was extremely busy.

He lived and ate at the company for seven whole days and didn't even go home.

Even after the establishment of Daqin Medical Equipment Co., Ltd. and the inflow of 10 billion yuan from Weiguo Capital, he was unable to leave the laboratory.

There is no way around it. You have to take back the bullshit you have blown out.

Old leader Zhao Changhai will definitely come on time. If I can't produce something that will impress him, it would be a small loss of face, but it would be a headache if it ruined the company's development plan.

You definitely can’t make a robot in a week, and buying a ready-made one won’t work either. It walks like an elderly person with Alzheimer’s disease, so what can it do?
Therefore, Li Tang chose to use commercial drones.

As a result, his lack of experience almost got him in trouble.

Before this, Li Tang had never played with a drone, so he never thought that the chip manufacturing processes used on them would be of different levels.

In particular, the flight control chips of most drones are only manufactured with a 28-nanometer process. It is undoubtedly extremely difficult for Zero to control a chip of this level.

Fortunately, with the development of the commercial drone market in recent years, companies like Motel and Innoda have already entered the market.

After comparison and trial, Li Tang chose Innovent's Jetson TX2 chip.

该芯片由16nm工艺制造，6核心设计，CPU部分由2个丹佛+4个A57核心共同组成。

The GPU uses the Pascal architecture, has 256 CUDAs, and a floating-point performance of 1.5TeraFLOPS.

Its support for images and graphics as well as floating-point computing power allow Zero to run a basic algorithm library in it.

At the same time, Li Tang also improved the data communication transmission algorithm to ensure that Zero could achieve seamless flight control operations of the drone.

In addition, in order to increase the diving flight speed of this drone, the rotor was redesigned and manufactured.

The commercial drone he originally purchased cost 1 dragon coins each. Now, after replacing this chip, the cost has increased by more than 2000 dragon coins.

Including the transformation cost of other parts and labor costs, the total cost of a fire-fighting and anti-strike drone is 15000 yuan, plus a 20% profit, it will be 18000 yuan.

Li Tang felt that this price might affect sales.

But think about it, a 120mm guided mortar shell from America requires 1.5 TORs, and its TNT charge is only 2-3 kilograms.

This drone can carry at least 4 fire bombs, each with a charge of 2.5 kilograms.

In other words, this drone can carry four 4mm mortar shells.

If a swarm-style suicide attack were carried out, the scene would certainly be very violent and aesthetically pleasing.

However, Li Tang’s company does not have the qualifications to produce military products, so it cannot carry bombs. It can only carry dry powder for fire extinguishing.

The entire transformation work was very cumbersome, but fortunately Zero's practical skills had been upgraded.

In other words, before Li Tang went to Beidu for the meeting, the half-completed transformation of the CNC industrial mother machine had finally completed the first round of iterations.

Although the precision of the parts it produces is not enough to produce the humanoid robot arm, it is more than enough to produce various robotic arms to enhance Zero's manual ability.

It is precisely because of Zero's superb processing capabilities that Li Tang was able to complete the transformation of as many as 120 firefighting drones within a week.

Now, everything is ready except for the east wind.

Coincidentally, just as I finished my work, Mr. Zhao called me.

"Professor Xiao Li, are you ready? If not, I can postpone the trip..."

"Mr. Zhao, you are trying to slap me in the face. What a pity! I have prepared a great gift for you. I will give it to you as soon as you come to the company tomorrow."

"Haha..." Zhao Changhai laughed heartily:

"Yes, it's true that even if you have the diamond drill, you dare to take on porcelain work!
Then I must pay you a visit tomorrow to accept your gift!
The specific arrival time should be no later than 9:30 in the morning."

"Okay, I promise you'll be satisfied. However, I'm afraid I'll need your help to get approval for the drone low-altitude flight demonstration in my company!"

"It's a small matter, just fly without worry."

After ending the call, Li Tang called four subordinates from the Precision Instruments and Equipment Research Institute.

All four of them have master's degrees in mechanical and electronic engineering and serve as assistant researchers.

In the past week, these four people helped assemble and debug 120 drones, and they are considered to be pilots with certain experience.

At this time, after listening to Li Tang's instructions for the welcoming demonstration tomorrow, the four of them were all stunned. "Dean, is this...appropriate? Will the chief send someone to arrest us?"

"That's not possible. This effect was beyond his expectations, which further proves that our intelligent drone is what he needs."

"But……"

"Don't say but, I'll take care of anything. Xiao Zhang, you're just too slow."

Seeing that the company boss was a little impatient, Xiao Zhang quickly expressed his position, "Don't worry, Dean, I promise to launch the 30 drones I am responsible for on time."

The other three quickly followed suit and patted their chests to express their opinions.

"That's right! Follow me and I guarantee you will gain knowledge and make money at the same time!"

He waved his hand and asked the four of them to get ready. Then he called Xu Cheng and told him about Mr. Zhao's visit, which made Xu Cheng complain immediately.

"Boss, couldn't you have said it earlier?
Such a big shot is visiting our company, and there may be a big project invested in us, so we must receive him well!
How many people are coming? We need to prepare some gifts. Sigh... where can I get them right now?"

After complaining, he ran away and he still had to say hello to the property management.

Li Tang then called Director Xu again.

"Hey, Professor Li, how come you have time to contact me today? Are you planning to treat me to a meal?"

This week, Xu Cheng accompanied Director Xu on a trip to the ministry, which not only allowed Director Xu to shine, but also helped promote the "Fox Hunting" software.

Although the ministry cannot directly require purchases from top to bottom, it did issue a document providing guiding suggestions on strengthening the police force with science and technology.

It sounds like just a suggestion, but it is an official document after all, and local police stations at all levels will still follow it.

As a result, Beidu City became the first to try it out.

The same municipality, the same 16 districts, for an order of 1600 million, half of the payment is directly prepaid, but the deployment must be completed and officially run before March 3.

Apparently, the Taipei City Police are also preparing for a spring fox hunt.

"Director Xu, I have to treat you to a meal, but today I'm here to ask for your help."

"Oh, what is it? Tell me."

"Tomorrow my company will be hosting Mr. Zhao from the military, and we will be flying a drone for a demonstration. Or you can come and have a look. This type of drone can also be used by the police.

By the way, I would like to inform you that the military has approved the drone flight in the low-altitude airspace near my company."

Director Xu was stunned. "The Mr. Zhao you are talking about is..."

"It's the one in the equipment department."

"Oh... by the way, you just said that the police can also use that drone? Then I have to go and take a look!"

"Okay, Mr. Zhao will be here before 9:30 tomorrow morning."

"Okay, I'll deploy some police officers in advance to keep traffic smooth near the park."

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February 2023, 2, 19: AM.

Li Tang, along with a group of company managers, waited at the door of Building B.

From the entrance of the park to Building B, there was a park security guard standing every 10 meters. Li Tang was shocked by this formation. He really didn't know how Xu Cheng fooled Manager Chang of the park property.

Director Xu also arrived early and was now accompanied by Li Tang.

"Professor Li, your drones look pretty big. If so many of them were flying, it would be a huge mess. Wouldn't it be inappropriate to demonstrate them in this park?"

Li Tang pointed to the six buildings in the park, as well as the various trees and bamboo forests planted between the buildings:
"This is the most typical urban (war) scene. Police patrols and firefighters are the norm, right?"

"Hey, it really is. So, is that really a firefighting drone?"

“You can see the dry powder fire extinguisher inside, so of course it’s a real firefighting drone!”

(End of this chapter)