Chapter 2159 The First Specific Task of the Π Department

"Feng's garage?" Rubin was stunned for a moment. He felt like he had gotten to know Feng Yiping again. He didn't expect him to be so extravagant.

He has built an airport not far from their capital to house his favorite cars. How many cars must there be?

As for why it is an airport instead of a garage, he himself gave the answer. It is to facilitate transportation. There are too many luxury cars that travel by plane from the manufacturing plant to the user.

Moreover, isn’t the airport runway also suitable for test driving?

However, an airport was specially built to facilitate the transportation of luxury cars. This luxury must be the first in the world, but it is quite consistent with Feng's net worth.

He was looking forward to seeing so many rare antique cars here next.

"Yes, the garage," Lao Ma pointed to the small town next to him, "Including that side."

Rubin doesn't understand this. Judging from the layout of some small buildings, there is not enough space for many cars. No matter how luxurious a person is, it is impossible to treat his treasured cars as people and give them a warm place. Go home.

"Yes, this is my garage, but there are more tools and equipment in my garage, and there are many first-class talents using these tools and equipment,"

Oh, now Rubin understood what they meant by "garage."

Indeed, in the United States, in addition to being used to start a business, garages are also the workshops of many men.

However, now those who have the conditions will build a more professional tool room in the yard and use it as an operation room at the same time, such as Rubin himself.

The workshop at his home where he tinkers with robots can be said to be a small workshop.

Sure enough, he followed Feng Yiping into the tall main building of the airport and found that the lobby on the first floor was very empty. There was not a single car, but at that end, there were some shelves more than ten meters high, placed against the wall, and There are some cabinets.

He couldn't figure out what the arrangement was.

But that Jack seemed to know, he asked, "Is this your experimental site?"

"Yes, how about it, not bad," Feng Yiping stood with his arms crossed in the several thousand square meters hall, "It's the same as a warehouse, isn't it?"

Rubin then asked, "Feng, are we going to develop an aircraft here, the kind of drone you mentioned?"

He remembered all the conversations Feng Yiping had with him, and naturally he would not forget it. Feng Yiping suggested that he consider flying robots in the air.

"Or are we also developing rockets here?"

"There are no rockets," Feng Yiping patted him on the shoulder again, "However, there are drones, but what we want to develop is not just drones, but a system. Let's go and follow them. Meet,"

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In a short time, a large group of people gathered in the conference room upstairs. Rubin didn't know any of these people, but judging from Feng Yiping's attitude towards those people, he understood one thing very well. These people should all not simple.

Of course it's not simple. Among the people Feng Yiping met today, there were three academicians of the two academies. The last one was also a leader in the subject.

"Dear experts and professors," Feng Yiping started with a smile, "I am really honored to have the opportunity to work with you,"

"Professor Dong and Professor Chen, when I was in school, I didn't have the opportunity to take your class. Now that I have this opportunity, I'm really excited."

The two people he mentioned, Dong and Chen, were both academicians teaching at Tsinghua University.

Being able to invite these two foreigners, his status as a Tsinghua University student also helped a lot.

“I myself feel that among domestic entrepreneurs, I should be a bit different. Although I also like some of our past cultural classics, I do not recommend finding solutions to all problems from documents such as the Tao Te Ching. "

At this time, Ding Sanshi, who was recommending the "Tao Te Ching" to everyone in a certain place, was innocently shot - letting everyone get in touch with our traditional culture, is it wrong?

But it’s hard for Feng Yiping to talk about Tai Chi.

Lao Ma next to me is a true fan of Tai Chi, and now he also likes to talk about the essence of Tai Chi.

"I think that on many practical issues, most of the strange people and strangers hidden among the people cannot be counted on,"

There are also many celebrities and celebrities who are lying at gunpoint - they are the strange people and strangers who like and believe in the folk the most.

Of course, his words also allowed Lao Ma to avoid some thunder later.

"I still want to start with science to explore more possibilities,"

Rubin strongly agrees with Feng Yiping's view, because in the United States, this is the approach of his peers.

"So I think when you first see the topics given by Mr. Pan, you may think they are a bit ridiculous or unrealistic,"

Pan Shimin looked down at the documents in front of him.

She was worried that if she raised her head now, she would not be able to help but give Feng Yiping a few big eye rolls.

What you said is too understatement.

Do you know how embarrassing it is to be looked at by one expert after another with the look of "Is this a fool?"

"However, based on my personal understanding, whether it is some of our assumptions in the field of life or those issues that are closely related to our lives in the future, it is not impossible to realize,"

"Besides, my teacher taught me since childhood that science is all about making bold assumptions and being careful to verify them,"

"Of course, I admit that most of our previous topics were relatively broad, so today, I will make a specific request,"

"This is the lobby on the first floor," he said, pointing to the picture on the big screen.

"You can think of it as one of the warehouses we are currently investing heavily in,"

"My requirement is that when the manufacturer's delivery truck arrives at our warehouse, starting from entering the warehouse - to be precise, including the manufacturer's delivery truck, it is also determined by the warehouse,"

"The system searches and finds that the inventory of some products is lower than the minimum standard, so it sends information to the manufacturer to request replenishment,"

"After the manufacturer's delivery truck arrives, starting from entering the warehouse, and then according to the user's order, out of the warehouse, packaging, sorting, and arranging for express delivery companies to deliver, I think all will be completed by robots controlled by the system,"

"Of course, we also have high requirements for error rate and efficiency,"

"According to the data we have collected from the express delivery company, the employee who currently sorts the most small items sorts 2,000 items in 8 hours. Of course, this is a very high standard,"

"For the time being, we will design the efficiency of the robot based on this standard,"

Lao Ma has been looking at the information in his hand, and at this time he interrupted, "It's just sorting, not including other processes such as packaging,"

Otherwise, if a robot can handle more than 200 packages in an hour, the requirement is too high.

"Of course," Feng Yiping nodded, "The express delivery company will continue to make requirements for specific data,"

The experts pondered.

If Feng Yiping's requirement is really true, it seems that it is not impossible to achieve it based on current technical means.

However, if you dig deeper, you will find that the difficulty is not ordinary.

For example, the system mentioned by Feng Yiping does not seem to be a simple system.

According to his requirements, the data that this system needs to process is really not small.

Then, how to send instructions to these robots? How to coordinate these robots? For example, how to avoid congestion in the passage? ...

"Mr. Rubin is an outstanding robotics expert. I think he should be able to provide a lot of advice for everyone," Feng Yiping said to Lu Bing, "Rubin, you will have a part-time job here in the future,"

"Of course, making the warehouse fully automated is still the first step. Next, we need to research and develop how to let these robots go out of the warehouse and deliver the user's order directly to the user,"

"The initial requirement is very simple. We will deliver the order from this hall to everyone's research room in the town next door,"

"The delivery route, I think, can not only run on the ground, but also fly in the sky,"

The experts then understood what kind of use the drone that Feng Yiping wanted to develop would be.

But this requirement is more difficult than one level.

Let's not talk about control first. How to plan the route and how to locate is another big problem.

You know, the navigation systems configured on cars and mobile phones now often lead people into the ditch.

Besides, when the robot walks out of the warehouse, it will encounter more than just robots, people and cars. How to actively avoid them and how to safely pass the traffic lights? …

This is another topic that looks simple, but is very complicated to implement.

Some experts thought, oh, it turns out that when he joined NAVTEQ to establish an electronic map company, he should have considered this demand.

"After this, I hope we can develop an unmanned convenience store, that is, the stocking and sales of this convenience store, including settlement, are all controlled by programs,"

"I hope that in the future, such a store will open in our town,"

He said it simply, but the experts were a little confused.

This seems to be to enlarge the current unmanned vending machines dozens of times so that people can enter directly.

But the difficulty has increased by more than dozens of times.

The most realistic problem is that the goods in the unmanned vending machine will not be spit out if there is no money.

But in an unmanned store, the goods are displayed on the shelves. What if someone takes it and runs away?

It is easy to close the store immediately if someone does not pay.

However, there are more than one customer visiting the store at the same time. If you lock up a large group of people at will, who would be willing to visit again?

So, this idea is difficult!

At this time, Lao Ma also remembered something, "Can the facial recognition you mentioned be applied here?"

"I think it can," Feng Yiping said.

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When they went downstairs again, Rubin did not follow them. There were many experts in his field upstairs, and he had more in common with them than with Feng Yiping.

"Is there anything else strange here?" Lao Ma asked.

"Strange, it's these," Feng Yiping said, pointing to the cabinets against the wall.

"Lockers?" Lao Ma said indifferently.

These cabinets are very common in supermarkets and stations.

"You see, the most time-consuming link of the express company is the final delivery link. Let's not talk about other things, that is, the customer agrees to go downstairs to pick up the package. A customer on the 18th floor spends 3 minutes from receiving the courier's call to coming to him to pick up the package. That's necessary, right?"

"You mean to put these lockers in the community, put the goods they bought online in these lockers, and let them pick them up by themselves?" Lao Ma said.

"Yes,"

"The question is, what do users use to open the lockers? In order to improve utilization, we can't set up a dedicated locker for every resident in the community,"

"Also, do we know when users take their express delivery? How do users check the goods? How to ensure the safety of the goods in the lockers?..."

Speaking of this, Lao Ma is very clear, and specific questions come one after another.

"We are currently developing all the problems you mentioned,"

"You see, the opening of these lockers is controlled here," Feng Yiping pointed to the small cabinet with a touch screen and said, "Our idea is that after the courier obtains the user's consent and puts the express into the locker, the system will send a text message to the user's mobile phone, which contains the password to open the locker,"

"At the same time, the time when the user opens the locker will be fed back to our system through here, so that we know that this delivery has ended and this locker can be used again..."

"Of course, there are still many specific problems, but we are solving them in an orderly manner,"

"This can be said to be a solution for the last 100 meters of express delivery. Correspondingly, in the future, we also hope to set up another device in some hot spots, that is, a device that automatically collects the user's express delivery and notifies the courier to pick up the item as soon as possible. That is a solution for the first 100 meters of express delivery..."

Lao Ma looked at Feng Yiping, "You have such a brain hole!"