Tech Islander

Chapter 174 Tianyu Robot Appears

As a top student in Columbia Media Department, Eliza has been striving to become a female anchor with intercontinental influence since she started her career.

However, when she actually started her career in KIKU TV in Hawaii, she realized how far away this goal is.

As a local TV station for the state of Hawaii, KIKU only has an audience of more than 100 million local residents.Even including the floating population of tourism and gold mining, it is only more than 200 million.

With such an audience size, on the one hand, it is rare to see interesting and valuable news; on the other hand, even if some parents talk about short-term controversial topics, it is difficult to cause any waves.

It is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice!
Until a week ago, Mia, a girl from the future biology laboratory, found her and provided a news thread: the five major laboratories will gather at the Kilauea crater in a week to use robots to collect flora samples for microbial research.

At first, Eliza didn't care.After all, Future Biological Laboratory is not well-known, and she has never even heard of it, so it is naturally not enough to constitute a hot news.It was just the professional ethics of a journalist that prompted her to start collecting relevant information in order to make professional judgments.

Do not check, I don’t know, I’m scared.

Although the Future Biological Laboratory is not well-known, the other four laboratories that are tied with it in the top five laboratories are very impressive and should not be underestimated.They are, Oak Ridge, Lawrence Berkeley, Harvard and MIT.

Not only that, but Eliza also noticed that the proposals of these four laboratory topics are inextricably linked with the creation of future biological laboratories.In this regard, American TV stations and news media have successively reported on it.

However, little media attention has been paid to the plan for the five major laboratories to gather in the Kilauea crater a week later to uniformly collect samples of the flora.

Out of the professional intuition of a journalist, Eliza felt that she had caught a potential news thread.Immediately organized colleagues familiar with the TV station to conduct early-stage collection and preparations for this incident until the arrival of the unified collection day.

Early on Saturday morning, Eliza got up when the sky was bright, took a cold shower, and changed into her favorite female anchor suit on weekdays.

The full and round chest is very eye-catching, and the long and powerful legs are eye-catching.As a mixed race with a quarter of Chinese descent, Eliza is very confident about her external conditions.It's just that today's glamorous outfit is the first time since she started working.

At ten minutes to eight, Eliza arrives at KIKU TV. Ten minutes later, the interview team she organized was all there, including the editor, cameraman, helicopter operator and herself, a total of four people.

The helicopter with the logo of KIKU officially took off 15 minutes later, and flew straight to the Kilauea volcano on the Big Island of Hawaii in the southeast direction.

On the Big Island of Hawaii, the weather is a bit gloomy, and it looks like a typical climate associated with volcanic activity.

Half an hour later, the TV helicopter landed at an observation point a kilometer away from the Kilauea crater.

When Eliza stepped off the helicopter, she found that four well-known laboratory teams had arrived, and only the lesser-known Future Biology Laboratory hadn't been seen yet.

Among the resident groups of various teams, Eliza first recognized Dr. Feynman, the subject leader of the Harvard Microbiology Laboratory, according to the character card information in her memory.

On the premises of the Harvard Microbiology Laboratory, three transport helicopters and nearly ten experimental vehicles with basic biological equipment lined up.There are more than [-] people, and several technicians are doing final debugging around the seemingly clumsy robot.

"Hi, Dr. Feynman, I'm Eliza, a reporter from KIKU TV station. Could you give me 5 minutes to do a simple interview with you?" Eliza cheered up and said expectantly.

It seems that the appearance of the beautiful reporter played a role. Dr. Feynman's eyes behind the thick lenses lighted up slightly, and he stood there without any choice, not moving at all.

"First of all, Dr. Feynman, I would like to ask you a professional biological question. It is said that the temperature of magma in the earth's crust is as high as several thousand degrees. In such an environment, will there be microorganisms? Because in our common sense, microorganisms generally Bring the water to a boil and it will kill."

Dr. Feynman pushed the lens, and said in a professional tone: "Boiling water can kill general microorganisms, but there are exceptions, such as spores, archaeal bacteria and other special types. Spores contain heat-resistant enzymes and have fine cell walls, so It has formed its heat-resistant characteristics and can survive in a high-temperature environment above [-] degrees Celsius. This is also the reason why spore-like viruses are more infectious."

"...As for archaea, there is a class of thermophiles that are even more resistant to temperature than spores. This has been confirmed by scientists sampling craters on the seabed. In fact, in craters In extremely hot environments, there are extreme thermophiles, and they can even survive in environments as high as hundreds of degrees Celsius or thousands of degrees Celsius. The objects of our sampling research this time are such extreme thermophiles."

"...And there is one more thing, I have to correct your statement. The temperature of the magma in the earth's crust increases as it gets closer to the center of the earth, and may reach several thousand degrees. But the temperature of the crater, because it is very close to the outside environment, has dropped to one thousand degrees. The temperature is about [-] degrees Celsius. Even those lavas erupted from the crater, followed the volcanic flow channel, and entered the sea, and the temperature may drop to five or six degrees."

"OK, I understand, Dr. Feynman." Eliza then asked: "So I just noticed that you are debugging the robots. IMHO, they look a little clumsy and cute, are you sure they can complete the flora sample Collection mission?"

Dr. Feynman's complexion couldn't help but he took a deep breath and said, "Our collection robot is a multi-legged robot specially developed by Google after acquiring seven robot manufacturers and combining the advantages of all their products. Moreover, Google In terms of research and development, they are already at the forefront of the industry, and I believe they will bring us surprises."

"OK, thank you Dr. Feynman."

After a short interview, Eliza took the photographer and walked up to the robot that Google engineers were debugging and wrote: "You can notice that this collection robot looks like a big dog, but it is integrated in some aspects. properties of the Atlas humanoid robot."

"OK, let's take a look at the collection robots of other teams. Oh, the robot at Oak Ridge Laboratory is from ABB. It looks very robust, and it feels particularly strong..."

"MIT's robot is more like an eight-clawed spider..."

At this moment, the roar of a huge helicopter came.After finishing the close-up of the four collection robots present, Eliza concluded: "Dear audience, these robots look clumsy and cute. I don't know what you think, but at least they are a little different from the robots I expected. Now let's go to Let's see if the collection robot in the future biological laboratory can surprise us?"

More than ten minutes later, under the guidance of Mia, Eliza finally saw the multi-legged intelligent robot provided by Tianyu.

"Hey, what you are seeing now is the collection robot of the future biology laboratory. Oh Maigao, are you surprised? At least in Elisa's opinion, it is a special surprise. When I look at them, I seem to be able to feel To their spirituality, not just a cold machine. It seems that intelligent robots should be like this. Yes, that's it!"

"...In comparison, the robots of the other four companies seem to be immature products. Next, they will perform the task of collecting bacteria in the harsh environment full of magma. Regardless of your first impression of them, Let's wait and see how they perform on the next mission."

　Ask for collection, ask for recommendation.

　　Thank you all for your support!
　　


(End of this chapter)