Chapter 68 NASA Joint Development Program
After a happy weekend on Monday, Duke came to the laboratory with joy and physical and mental health, and happened to meet Professor Boer. Duke was wondering that Professor Boer had arrived at the laboratory so early, and Professor Boer had already walked up with a man with a smile.
"Duke, you're here just in time. This is Dr. Schubert from Nasa. He came here today to discuss the problem of robotic automatic path search with you." Professor Boer said.
"Hello, Dr. Duke, I'm very happy to meet you, the new automatic robot competition champion. I'll introduce myself to myself. I'm also a MIT graduate." Dr. Schubert said with a smile, and while saying, he reached out and held Duke enthusiastically.
Schubert, who is even taller than Duke, has naturally curly golden hair and is covered with extremely lush hair and beard on his temples near his ears. If he wears a robe and a headscarf, he will look like an Arab beard. He just has a pair of gold-rimmed glasses on his nose and a very formal suit, which reveals some of the characteristics of an intellectual. But overall, it looks more like attending important business meetings than technical consultations.
"Dr. Schubert is a PhD in the 2005th Department of Aerospace. He once participated in the 2003 automatic robot competition and won the championship. Now he works in Nasa and is responsible for research on robots. Today, Dr. Schubert mainly wants to see the path-seeking performance of genius girls on actual terrain on the spot." Professor Boer directly revealed Schubert's purpose. Everyone is skilled, so it is more refreshing to go straight.
When Duke heard that he was indeed here to discuss business, he was surprised and thought that in just a few days, he had actually alarmed such a giant as Nasa. It seems that those who are following the robot competition of MIT are really a bit scary.
However, having the opportunity to cooperate with such an organization is mixed. The good thing is that this kind of project is easy to gain both fame and fortune. However, relatively speaking, participating in such a highly confidential project by Uncle Sam will never be less trouble in the future. If Duke is an ordinary person, if he can encounter such an opportunity, it would be a rare opportunity to fall from the sky. How many people can't wait to pray to God and Buddha.
But Duke had a gully in his heart. He heard that this was the case and felt a little resistant. He couldn't help but feel dissatisfied with Schubert, who had high expectations for this trip, was originally calm. At this moment, he saw Duke's expression not only without any surprise, but he was interested in it, and he couldn't help but feel a little strange.
However, when the two met for the first time, there was Professor Boer in the middle, and Schubert didn't say anything else. Even if Duke had any quirks, Schubert could understand, after all, those who were obsessed with technology were more or less different from ordinary people.
"Okay, Duke, now you take the genius beautiful girl with you. Let's find a place outside to let Dr. Schubert intuitively experience the amazing intelligent pathfinder ability of the genius beautiful girl." Professor Boer said directly when he saw that the two of them had no interest in talking. After all, Schubert was not here to MIT for nostalgia. His purpose and interest were still on the top algorithm for intelligent pathfinder developed by Duke. Although Dr. Schubert has watched the live video of the robot competition many times, he made a decision without personally inspecting it. This is not Nasa's rigorous work attitude, and even if Professor Boer admires this algorithm, it would not work.
Duke took out the genius beautiful girl robot from the laboratory, tested the power supply first, and found that it could last for a long time, so he nodded to Professor Boer and said everything was OK. The three of them picked up the robot and walked out of the laboratory.
After walking outdoors for a while, Duke and his party came to a small campus garden. The garden path was paved with uneven cobblestones. There was a green lawn on both sides of the path. There was a fountain in the center of the garden. Schubert looked at the place and felt that the terrain was already complicated enough, so he decided to pass through the garden without passing through any lawn.
Duke set a few parameters according to the requirements and activated the genius beauty. She stood at the starting point and scanned around for a while. This time she quickly identified the route she should have gone on and accurately stepped on the pebbles trail. Seeing the genius beauty automatically avoiding the obstacles of large pebbles on the trail, Schubert nodded secretly and said that it was already quite impressive to be able to do this level.
When we entered the fountain in the center of the garden, the genius beautiful girl quickly circled the pool without slowing down. She faced the temptation of the pebbled path in the other direction next to her without hesitation. She took a 180-degree turn and realized the entire garden journey from the path facing the other side of the pool.
"Duke, you, a genius beauty, is indeed worthy of reputation and amazing. If Dr. Duke is interested, I think in the future robot development of Nasa, it will definitely leave an important stage for Dr. Duke to show his strengths." Seeing the genius beauty's superb performance, Schubert praised it and even began to recruit the talent Duke.
"Schubert, you're not a friend enough, why did you start to dig up my people?" Professor Boer laughed a few times, saying as if serious and jokingly. "However, our artificial intelligence laboratory is very happy to cooperate with Nasa."
Of course, Professor Boer really hopes to promote this cooperation, because in the laboratory he led, many assistant professors and student scholarships and other expenses need research project funds to support it. He can afford to take advantage of the problem of insufficient funds for at least a few years with a rich man like Nasa.
"Haha, Professor Boer, I'm just a joke. Dr. Duke is still early to graduate, so we are discussing this issue too early. But when it comes to cooperation, I'm here this time to reach a preliminary draft joint research agreement with you. I really hope that Dr. Duke can join in and improve the joint development of our next generation of lunar robots and Mars robots' march control systems." Schubert took over Professor Boer and said. "If Dr. Duke has no objection, I think it's very likely that Nasa and the joint development project of robots march control systems in the mit Artificial Intelligence Laboratory will be approved."
Schubert's approach of connecting the cooperation plan with Duke made Professor Boer very upset, but Professor Boer knew that Schubert was originally aimed at Duke's genius beauty, otherwise they would not have given up on the cooperation plan with Stanford and instead cooperated with him, the mit artificial intelligence laboratory.
When will his students be able to influence an important cooperation plan, Professor Boer sighed in his heart. On the surface, he had to seek Duke's opinion. "Duke, what do you think of the joint development project plan proposal with Nasa?" Professor Boer said to Duke.
What else can I do? Not as good as I did, Duke smiled bitterly, "I have no problem with it and I am very happy to join this program, but" Duke said. "I only want to participate in the part with the lowest confidentiality requirements, that is, if the project confidentiality requirements affect my freedom of leaving the United States, I will not participate in this project." Duke had to raise this condition first, so as not to be clear in the future.
This request made Schubert very scratch his head. Nasa's project is rarely kept low, and Duke really raised a very big problem. However, Schubert thought again that he should be anxious, not only him, but Professor Boer, one of the biggest beneficiaries, should also contribute some effort in it. So, let's discuss this issue in the specific agreement later.
A few days later, Boer and Schubert negotiated a feasible solution, which was divided into several independent sub-projects throughout the project, and Duke was responsible for the intelligent pathfinding sub-project, which avoided the possibility of leaking the existing secrets of the Nasa robot project. Although some data on the Nasa robot's capabilities can be inferred from Duke's intelligent pathfinding module, this is already a non-critical thing.
Chapter completed!