Becoming Rich with Daily Scavenging APP-Chapter 572: The First Humanoid Robot Games

Yang Chengru briefly explained the development of private rockets domestically to Chen Yiyang.

Musk’s SpaceX is undoubtedly the most successful private rocket company in the past decade.

It has also inspired quite a bit in the domestic rocket field.

Traditional rocket companies place a heavy emphasis on safety, which makes them very cautious in applying new technologies.

As long as they can achieve mission targets, they will be as conservative as possible technologically.

Such an approach is certainly not wrong. Because these traditional rocket companies rely on government financial allocations, every launch burns taxpayers’ money.

In this context, traditional rocket companies only need to safely complete the prescribed targets and tasks.

Because the impact of a failure is enormous.

But private rocket companies are different.

Private rocket companies don’t have such heavy political burdens, so they can boldly use new technologies, even if they fail, the consequences aren’t too severe, and instead explore more possibilities in technology.

So, after SpaceX’s success, the domestic private rocket field was also opened up.

Although these private rocket companies have the backing of state-owned enterprises technologically, financially, they rely on self-financing and attracting investment.

"Has a private rocket company come to you for investment?"

Chen Yiyang instinctively thought a private rocket company was short on funds and sought Yang Chengru’s help to attract investment.

"Not really." Yang Chengru said, "Lin’an has achieved many successes in frontier technology and commercial fields these past years, so I’m thinking about whether I could venture into the private rocket field, bring in a company to develop in Lin’an."

"I see." Chen Yiyang pondered for a moment and then spoke, "Let me first investigate and study; I’m not familiar with this field yet."

"Okay." Yang Chengru nodded.

"Private rocket isn’t your main concern this time, what else is there?"

Realizing Yang Chengru wasn’t commissioned by others to get him to invest in private rockets, Chen Yiyang understood that mentioning private rocket investment was just a conversation starter.

He then asked Yang Chengru to continue with other topics.

"There’s a global humanoid robot sports event, Yushu has to participate." Yang Chengru stated.

"Global humanoid robot sports event?"

Hearing the term, Chen Yiyang immediately realized there must be some official endorsement behind this sports event.

Otherwise, how could they dare to name it so grandly?

"Yes, it’s co-organized by the Imperial Capital government, CCTV, the World Robotic Collaboration Organization, and the Asia-Pacific Robot World Cup International Council. They hope Yushu will participate in this sports event, ensuring fairness and impartiality, with everyone competing according to unified standards."

"I see." After hearing the names of these organizations, Chen Yiyang guessed roughly what it was about.

Last time, the northern robot companies organized a robot sports event themselves, but the southern robot companies didn’t support it, and it basically didn’t create much buzz.

Now seeing Yushu organizing robot fighting competitions fervently, they have learned from the previous lesson and, together with various organizations, organized a world humanoid robot sports event.

Although there are many organizations behind this, the most substantial ones are the Imperial Capital government and CCTV.

Without much thinking, Chen Yiyang agreed that Yushu would participate in the competition this time.

The reason is simple; this time’s inaugural humanoid robot sports event is a domestic contest for dominance in the humanoid robot field.

If this first humanoid robot sports event is organized well, in the future, when humanoid robots truly develop.

The discourse power over the commercial performance and development of humanoid robots will be in domestic hands.

Although Yushu currently hasn’t taken the stage, as long as the meat stays in the pot, eating earlier or later makes no difference.

"As long as Yushu is willing to participate, that’s fine." Yang Chengru also sighed in relief.

The main reason he personally came to discuss this with Chen Yiyang.

Was because those above were worried Yushu might start another separate initiative, leaving the northern-organized humanoid robot sports event lacking credibility.

Seeing Chen Yiyang promptly agreeing, Yang Chengru naturally completed the task assigned from above.

The next day, Chen Yiyang went to Yushu’s company to discuss the matter with Wang Xingxing.

"They have already sent me the event schedule." Wang Xingxing said, handing a sheet to Chen Yiyang.

Chen Yiyang glanced at it.

The various projects of this competition are quite diverse.

Chen Yiyang initially thought there were only track and field events, but track and field events actually only take up a small portion, mainly including standing long jump, 100-meter obstacle race, and other running races.

Besides track and field events, there are also 3V3 and 5V5 soccer matches.

These two major projects belong to competitive events.

In addition to competitive events, there are performance events, including group dance, martial arts, and an impromptu performance event of uncertain nature.

Of course, in the future, humans hope humanoid robots can help complete repetitive physical labor.

Therefore, this humanoid robot sports event also arranged scenario matches.

They are categorized into industrial scenarios, medical scenarios, hotel scenarios, and warehousing scenarios.

The projects in these scenario matches mostly involve moving, organizing, packing, cleaning, welcoming, etc.

They primarily assess whether humanoid robots can replace humans in completing labor in these scenarios.

Chen Yiyang felt these projects were very well designed.

Although these projects seem quite dull, they actually test the technological capabilities of humanoid robots.

And make the competition have more commercial application meaning.

"No robot fighting competitions?" Chen Yiyang inquired.

Yushu’s humanoid robots became famous previously for hosting fighting competitions.

Why didn’t this humanoid robot sports event include fighting competitions?

"There are, but the robot fighting competitions require passing preliminary rounds to qualify for the main event, so they’re on another schedule."

The so-called preliminary rounds are commonly used qualification selection mechanisms in international sports events.

The most famous example is the World Cup, where teams must first pass preliminary rounds to qualify for participating in the official World Cup matches.

Because robot fighting demands extremely high performance from the robots.

If any robot company were allowed to sign up for this event, it could easily render the event unattractive.

Thus, they require preliminary rounds first to ensure the participating companies’ humanoid robots possess the ability for fighting competitions before allowing them to participate in the main event.

"This competition seems really great." Chen Yiyang felt that the higher-ups were quite attentive in planning this inaugural humanoid robot sports event, finding professionals to develop the event with care after reviewing all the competition schedules.