Chapter 112: Overseas scientific research institutions continue to fail in cracking the problem (4.8k large chapter plus meals)
The coveters hiding in the dark have made frequent moves against the Yuanjie intelligent control, but with little effect.
Whether it is bionic prosthetic limbs or newly released domestic service robots, they are all selling like hotcakes.
Because the customer groups targeted by Metaverse Intelligent Control's products have certain particularities.
The consumer group of bionic prostheses is people with physical disabilities, and most of them are the lower class people.
If you tell this group that bionic prosthetics will spy on your private life, they will scold you back: Come on, workers cannot take care of themselves without arms and legs. If you tell workers that you don’t have these things, day by day is nothing.
So it is of no use to this customer group.
The first need of this group is survival. Being able to live and take care of themselves again is their highest priority need, and other issues have to be ranked lower than it.
As for domestic service robots, the customer group for this product is high-net-worth or ultra-high-net-worth individuals, who are the social elite. If they were so easily fooled, they would not be so rich and successful, and they would have fallen from this ecological niche long ago.
Hence, it is of no use to this customer group. It may be able to fool one or two, but it is unlikely to be the vast majority.
· Metaverse Intelligent Control’s bionic prosthetic products and housekeeping service robots, these two major customer groups are in ecological niches that are naturally difficult to drive. As long as the product itself is excellent and closely meets the needs of users, it will be a big seller.
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In the next few days, two Xiaoyuan robots will be displayed at each of Metaverse’s major offline direct stores and Wanxiang Huitong authorized stores.
The sharing of various daily life experiences of Xiaoyuan Robot is becoming more and more popular on the Internet. The click-through rate of videos related to it is also very high, and it is easy to become popular.
Some Internet celebrities have seen this track and have financial strength, and they also choose to purchase Xiaoyuan robots to make and share videos.
At this stage, new things are very attractive, people’s curiosity for novelty has not dissipated, and they can gain traffic.
By December, various Xiaoyuan robots have appeared on the Internet for daily sharing.
There are videos of doing housework, washing dishes and cooking, videos of feeding pets, etc.
The current product delivery cycle has been shortened to less than one week, because the super factory had just been put into operation before, and it was not that fast.
It is different now. If the super factory fully reaches its production capacity, it can produce tens of thousands of units a month.
The current weekly sales of Xiaoyuan Robot fluctuate between 3,500 and 3,750, and have stabilized.
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In the living room of the villa, Meng Qiuyan read the latest news.
Finally, he looked at Lu An and said: "Recently, the public opinion related to our company has turned again. There are more and more topics about robots taking human jobs. Many media, including some ill-intentioned people, sell or create anxiety from this perspective."
Objectively speaking, for humanoid robots, when they advance to a certain level and the cost price comes down, humanoid robots can basically do any job that humans can do.
Especially those engaged in industrial production, including service industries, and even some artistic creations.
This is why humanoid robots are called the ultimate form. They can do all the jobs that humans can do and can take over seamlessly.
Yuanjie Intelligent Control has launched such an advanced humanoid robot.
The exaggeration by the media and thoughtful people has indeed made many people feel anxious, fearing that their jobs will be taken away by robots.
Lu An said calmly: "As your career gets bigger, you will be hit by blows from all directions. Being targeted shows that you are really good. Otherwise, who will take care of you?"
Humanoid robots are one of the core elements in releasing human productivity.
This technology tree is the key to dealing with the "Monte Moros" asteroid crisis after 2028. Without robots to release productivity, how could China alone produce more than 100 billion tons of steel in just 8 years from 2028 to 2036?
In the magnificent eight-year epic of the previous life, it was not just the production of steel, but also the frantic production of various materials including cement and building materials.
Everything has pros and cons. When the asteroid "Monte Moros" was first discovered in the previous life, all mankind was frightened. Even Shang Sanchang was buzzing when he heard the news.
In order to cope with this crisis, human beings are frantically extracting global resources.
Just say that Tu'ao is the country with the largest iron ore reserves in the world. In just eight years, almost all the proven easy-to-mine iron ores have been dug up, and Tu'ao has also fallen from the world's largest iron ore reserves.
The over-exploitation of the earth's resources has also forced human civilization to look up to the stars, look for an increase in survival resources outside the earth, and broaden the boundaries of survival.
It can be said that the emergence of the asteroid "Mont Moros" has, in a sense, accelerated human civilization out of the cradle of the earth.
But Meng Qiuyan doesn’t know this, nor does he know what will happen after 2028.
The military has decided to place an order to purchase 65,000 armed humanoid robots. It will first purchase 1,500 for acceptance testing for half a year. After confirming that there are no problems, it will be mass-produced to complete the subsequent delivery of 63,500 armed humanoid robots.
However, this amount is still not enough to maintain the production line operating throughout the year.
The military purchased 65,000 units. Xiaoyuan Robot expects annual sales to be around 200,000 units. The current production capacity of the super factory can achieve an annual output of 400,000 units.
In other words, the current order volume is only enough for the humanoid robot production line to last for a little more than half a year, and there will be no work left.
After the production line is put into operation, it cannot be easily stopped.
Then we can only expand incremental demand. The military will definitely not be able to purchase in large quantities. Let’s not talk about whether military expenditures can be sustained due to the crazy explosion of troops. Countries around the world will be nervous when they see it. Maybe some countries will be stressed.
As for the strategy of expanding the increment, the military aspect must be looking for ways to make a foreign trade version. Lu An’s suggestion has also been recognized by the superiors.
Previously, he suggested making a foreign trade version of armed humanoid robots. One of the reasons was that actual combat data was needed for technology iteration upgrades to ensure that it maintains the world's leading position in the field of humanoid robots.
However, this requires ensuring that the technology is not leaked. If this issue is not guaranteed, the country will definitely not allow armed humanoid robots to be used in foreign trade.
Lu An is very confident in the area of technological anti-theft.
In addition to the military foreign trade version, another incremental scenario is emergency rescue and disaster relief. One of the most typical application scenarios is fire extinguishing. With the assistance of fire-fighting humanoid robots, there is no need for human firefighters to put themselves in danger when entering a burning building to put out fires, rescue, etc.
However, the biggest increase is still in the civilian market. As long as the price of domestic service robots is lowered so that the 300 million ordinary middle-class consumer groups in the country can afford it, there will be no problem in annual sales reaching one million levels.
·At a local research institute, a humanoid robot was sent to the laboratory across half the world.
It is the Xiaoyuan robot released by Metaverse Intelligent Control. It has been 2 months since the product was launched. Many top scientific research institutions have obtained Xiaoyuan robot from different channels.
This is not difficult, after all, it is a product that is already on the market.
As long as you spend some money to buy it, you can definitely get it, and it is legal and compliant to ship it out of the country. Even if it is not legal and compliant, as long as the product is sold on the market, people who are willing to do it can still do it.
At this moment, the air in the laboratory is filled with the cold air of condensed liquid nitrogen, as well as the almost silent low-frequency hum of precision instruments operating.
Professor Krueger is like an apprentice helpless in the face of a stubborn locksmith.
Wearing a high-power magnifying glass, his hands are as stable as mechanical arms, operating an extremely expensive femtosecond laser micro-cutting instrument, targeting the solid-state lattice batteries removed from the Xiaoyuan robot.
In the eyes of many foreign research institutions, Xiaoyuan Robot is full of treasures, whether it is software or hardware.
Let’s talk about this solid-state lattice battery. A few months ago, Metaverse Intelligent Control released a huge breakthrough, which made a huge breakthrough in the battery field, directly increasing the battery energy density from the current mainstream lithium battery to nearly an order of magnitude, reaching 1000Wh/kg.
There is no country in the world that does not want to obtain solid-state lattice battery technology.
"Adjust the power to the lowest threshold."
"Focus calibration."
"The pulse frequency is set in the theoretical stripping safe zone."
h Professor Kruger's voice came through the intercom system, his expression was quite solemn and cautious.
His assistant is staring at the screen of a high-resolution electron microscope, which clearly displays the fine structure of the surface layer of the material.
With its ultra-short pulses and extremely high peak power, femtosecond laser can theoretically perform near-destructive molecular-level cutting.
The faint glow is precisely focused on the edge of the material.
Zhi——!
An extremely subtle abnormal sound was heard, almost drowned out by the noise of the instrument.
· On the microscope screen, in the small area focused by the laser, the perfect lattice image of its molecular arrangement is instantly distorted and blurred.
As if being thrown into the water of stones.
Immediately afterwards, a strange dark gray color, like an ink smear, quickly spread from the cutting mat to the surroundings, and the warm material color of the sample became darker visibly to the naked eye.
"Stop! Stop!"
Professor Kruger almost shouted in a hurry, and slammed the emergency stop button with his finger.
But, it’s too late.
At the moment when the laser beam was extinguished, the texture of the "contaminated" area changed dramatically.
It is no longer elastic, but becomes as fragile as dry chalk, when Professor Kruger tries to take a sample by gently touching it with the most delicate probe.
Poof!
With a soft sound, the small piece of material was like weathered sandstone, silently cracking and collapsing, turning into a handful of lifeless gray powder, falling from the tip of the probe.
"Active nanocapsules..."
This is a branch of nanomaterials. Professor Kruger took off his eyepieces, picked up a little powder with his fingers, and his voice was hoarse.
Any attempt to violently invade or energy stimulation beyond its endurance limit will trigger the rupture of these capsules, release specific etchants or trigger irreversible cross-linking of molecular chains, using self-destruction to protect secrets.
Professor Kruger looked at another scrapped instrument next to him, his eyes full of frustration.
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At the same time, North Magnesium Silicon Valley.
A core laboratory owned by the technology giant Google is also deconstructing Xiaoyuan Robot at this moment.
A software architect was staring at a dozen crazy scrolling monitors in front of him. After the robot was in place, he and his team began to work hard all night.
The team tried to break through the firmware fortress of Xiaoyuan Robot from the software level.
They bypassed physical disassembly and exploited an extremely subtle timing vulnerability that existed in early peripheral sensor driver firmware to successfully inject a carefully disguised "low-privilege diagnostic request" into the system bus.
"Command injection successful! We touched the door handle!" The voice of a team member changed the tone due to excitement.
On the screen, the green lines representing the flow of data instantly became denser, as if a massive amount of underlying information was being carefully read out.
"Elevate the privileges and try to access the core control protocol layer."
Emily's fingers were flying on the virtual keyboard, just at the moment when her command was about to touch the "central nervous system" interface that was regarded as the Holy Grail.
Buzz! ! !
A low and rapid buzzing alarm suddenly sounded inside the Xiaoyuan robot. The soft warm white light strip on its head extinguished instantly and turned to a dazzling scarlet light that flashed continuously at high speed.
【Warning! Unauthorized deep protocol access detected! 】
【Start the "Logic Maze" countermeasures program! 】
【Execute the highest priority local data chaos coverage! 】
The cold synthetic Chinese voice prompts sounded ruthlessly, causing the cracking team to panic and scramble.
Immediately afterwards, they saw that the originally orderly flow of data on all the screens was instantly completely overwhelmed by a violent torrent of garbled codes composed of 0s and 1s that had no logic but followed some extremely complex mathematical formula.
These garbled codes rush wildly, covering any valuable information on the screen, and consume the memory and CPU resources of their cracked host at an exponential rate.
“This is self-pollution! Blocking all channels with junk data.”
An engineer in the team exclaimed in shock. The interface of the cracking tool was in chaos. The cursor was jumping wildly but no valid command could be entered. The system resource usage instantly soared to 100%, and the host fan roared at the edge of the limit.
"It is committing suicide! Cut off the connection! Physical isolation! Save the data! Hurry!"
Everyone hurriedly unplugged the data cable connected to the Xiaoyuan robot interface.
When the physical connection was forcibly severed, and everyone tried to reconnect any low-level interface of the robot with the last glimmer of hope, there was no response.
This originally extremely flexible robot is now like a metal sculpture.
The team tried to read the supposedly insignificant data in the robot's local storage through the previously established low-privilege connection, such as an alarm time set by the user, a vague cache outline of the home environment map, and even the log of the last sweeping task it performed.
But the feedback received was only a piece of garbled code processed by a high-intensity and dynamically changing encryption algorithm, which was completely unreadable.
All information that is not core but may reveal clues has been completely and irreversibly "whitewashed".
In a sense, this Xiaoyuan robot has completely "formatted" itself, leaving only a metal body that refuses all communication.
Every member of the team was immediately extremely frustrated and their work was all in vain.
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The hardware reverse engineering area of the laboratory next door is also conducting hardware-level cracking.
His chief hardware engineer Tom is facing a disassembled drive unit of the Xiaoyuan robot on the workbench. This precision component, slightly larger than a fist, is composed of multiple layers of highly integrated circuit boards and micro servo motors.
They carefully peeled off the shell, avoiding those suspicious "active packaging" areas, and tried to reversely deduce its control signals and communication protocols through traditional flying line probes and logic analyzers.
At first, there seemed to be progress, and they caught some regular signals.
"Prepare to inject simulation instructions, try to bypass the main control and directly drive the micro motor."
Tom gave the order.
However, the moment when the probe carefully touched a key control node.
bang! laugh!
A dazzling blue arc suddenly burst out from the contact point.
Accompanied by a faint, pungent smell of ozone, a small, charred hole was instantly burned out of the precision circuit board that was touched by the probe.
A few wisps of green smoke curled up.
Several micro servo motors connected to it stopped rotating completely.
"WTF?? Hardware fuse?"
Tom looked at the scrapped drive unit and the burnt probe, yelled, "Don't eat the sour radish," and punched the anti-static workbench.
The laboratory fell into a dead silence, with only the low hum of the equipment's cooling fan.
Emily, Tom, and the project manager who came after hearing the news gathered around the robot, all of them looking gloomy.
The technical anti-theft system built by Yuanjie Intelligent Control, from physical materials to logical software to hardware circuits, is fortified in layers and interlocking. Each layer is full of determination to perish together.
The project manager looked at the millions of dollars in equipment damage and the expensive Xiaoyuan robot that had become "scrap metal", and then looked at Tom, Emily and other technical leaders. Seeing that they all shook their heads bitterly, the project manager let out a long and heavy sigh.
His voice was dry and he broke the silence: "Inform the headquarters, the reverse plan has failed. The core technology of Yuanjie Intelligent Control, the hinterland of the kingdom, is beyond our reach."
Such reverse failures are happening not only in Google Labs, but also in a series of laboratories of scientific research institutions around the world.