After planes, cars, computers and mobile phones, the next national "application" port is likely to be here...

Less than a week later, the freshness of the RoboMaster S1 in Xinjiang seemed to have dissipated.

However, the industry shock caused by RoboMaster S1 "fighting" robots continues.

From the death of social robots such as Jibo, Kuri and Vector to the succession of educational robots such as Lego, Cambrian and Shangtang, the army of applied robots has finally emerged as an alien in Xinjiang. Although RoboMaster S1 will say that its heart is "education", the greater imagination it brings is in the field of robot "fighting.

Of course, strictly speaking, RoboMaster S1 is not a fight, but a competitive robot.

The earlier fighting robot in China should be GANKER of the Craftsman Society in 2015. As for the Robot Wars robot fighting competition held in San Francisco in 1994, it has a certain relationship with Lucasfilm. In addition to the competition operation of the Craftsman Club and the college league in Xinjiang, the popularity of relevant culture in China was also very popular in 2018 when Ali's "This!" It's Iron Armor "and Baidu's" Robot Contest.

On the one hand, the culture of robot fighting has entered colleges and universities and young people. On the other hand, many robot start-up companies have been digging and testing one after another. When the two routes meet, the initial cultural identity, consumption soil and new technology talents are "everything ready". DJI came with the "east wind of anti-corruption.

In addition, airplanes and cars are chilly in spring, computers and mobile phones are approaching in winter, folding era and 5G era are caught off guard, and fighting robots are on the verge of coming out.

For the 5G era that has already arrived, even if computers, mobile phones and cars are loaded with 5G chips, it is bound to be difficult to give full play to the full advantages of 5G. At this time, applied robots may be the "perfect" embedded 5G technology as the "APP" carrier of 5G era: the high speed determines that it can handle complex instructions, the low delay determines that it can feedback instantly, and the wide connection determines that it can access more sensor controllers.

Moreover, unlike the limitations of airplanes, cars, computers and mobile phones, the current market for applied robots is almost blank.

Just like the fighting robot market, we can "design" an "armed Altman" with full personalization and combat effectiveness according to the popular technology and the possible technology ".

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Iron Age: Spelling bayonets
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Whether it is the foreign Robot Wars or the domestic "This! This is the Iron Armor", their fighting methods are often "rough", relying on inertia and collision to complete the strike.

In addition to strength, speed and hardness, the robot also needs to consider structural design at this stage. However, since the entertainment robot of the program will carry out "magic changes" around its own "nirvana", the beauty of partial science is not so important at the same time.

The above fighters are all controlled by joysticks and are often bulky; the GANKER of the Craftsman Club is a different approach to the "Gundam model" that was originally similar to the day. The distinct body design, coupled with a more novel operation method-Somatosensory control and puppet control make GANKER more contemporary.

Although the "Voldemort" in the Mecha era is more stable, the robots of the Craftsman Society also have greater mobility, and the distinction of limbs also gives it more humanization possibilities.

Although the combat posture has become more elegant, and the somatosensory and puppet control are also more sensitive, but in essence GANKER is still fighting bayonets.

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Firearms Age: Catapult
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The reason why GANKER took the lead earlier than RoboMaster S1, but it still waited until the appearance of RoboMaster S1 to "detonate" the fighting robot.

First, because GANKER's chopping is relatively primitive, it is difficult to achieve complex movements in both somatosensory operations and puppet operations, and there is no possibility of in-depth excavation. The second is that we have given DJI, which has created the myth of unmanned aerial vehicles, greater inclusiveness and imagination.

Although RoboMaster S1 is still in the same order of magnitude as GANKER, it is only a cold weapon. However, you should know that RoboMaster S1 is only an "educational robot" and the bullets fired are only "crystal bullets", not to mention any lethality.

But if RoboMaster enter the field of fighting, it is not impossible to add controllable fuel to the firing turret.

In addition, the intelligent central control loaded RoboMaster S1 gives it a strong imagination to "customize skills". If the lower body of RoboMaster S1 is combined with GANKER, can operations such as "100-step flying sword" be completed.

Although super-energy particle weapons cannot be realized for the time being, sniper rifles (precise aiming laser), jet guns (water), and stun guns are relatively easy to realize.

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High Energy Era: Virtual Machine
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As for the fact that fighting robots cannot stay in the air, there are probably three solutions:

One is to fight in water (an environment where buoyancy can be obtained), control buoyancy, and use water pumps and motors to obtain kinetic energy;

But magnetic levitation, in the special combat disk with motor and bounce device to obtain mobility;

The third is to use XR technology to bind the physical model to the data module in the virtual host, and complete the setting through programming and data.

Some people may say that with XR, there is no need to bind reality.

But in fact, XR and robots in reality are only a mapping relationship. Players can "build" their own virtual machines through various data modules in XR world, and in reality they can also complete assembly through accessories. In reality, assembled bodies will also become a mapped virtual machine corresponding to their respective data templates. Although the body in reality may not have the ability of a virtual machine to fly into heaven and earth, it can also help learning through assembly and programming.

The simultaneous advancement of the virtual and real worlds verifies each other. You can put engines on creativity and reins on imagination.

Once this applied robot has its own "core of machine", it can further popularize and improve the civicization of "artificial intelligence", and tear a hole for the always mysterious "downgrade" of artificial intelligence into the crowd; but Compared with the "partial" attributes of other types of applied robots, fighting robots are likely to take the first step in the popularization of applied robots.

Of course, the above only uses a layman's perspective to explore the possibility of further development of combat robots from the perspective of industrial design.

Although it seems to professionals to be more clever, once this fighting application robot breaks out, it may have extraordinary "explosive power". With Boeing and Airbus in the aircraft field, iPhone and Windows in the computer field, Apple and Huawei in the mobile phone field, the robot field cannot nourish the other "unicorn".

Moreover, Apple's "Dajiang" in the robotics field has already been on the battlefield. Is it possible for us to be the next "Huawei?

PS: Some picture materials come from the Internet