Jing Ming took a cursory glance, but found no vacancy, turned back to get off the stands, and saw Du Ruo standing on the bottom step. First off dear
The game is about to start, and she is also looking for a position for herself, looking back from time to time, moving around so as not to block the view of the audience behind her.
After moving for a long time, there was no good place, so I simply went around and stood on the steps of another staircase. The wall over there will not prevent others from watching the game.
Jing Ming also walked over and stood silently on the first step behind her.
She turned her head sideways, pouted slightly and looked ahead obliquely, in a daze, waiting for the game to start.
Didn't know he was behind.
Due to the height difference and the steps, the top of her head only reached his chest, and when he lowered his eyes, he saw her black and smooth hair pinned to her little soft ears. The eyelashes are long and flickering.
Occasionally, she was attracted by the passing staff, came out of a dazed state, turned her head left and right, but never felt the gaze from behind her head.
Soon, the host came on stage.
The surrounding lights dimmed, and the voices of people also disappeared. Only the center of the stage is brilliant.
The host gave the opening speech enthusiastically, kicking off the competition.
This game is a non-humanoid robot fetching game. There are two symmetrical tracks above the ground in the center of the square field, like building blocks.
The road is undulating, winding, and even has several sharp turns.
A white center line is drawn on the track for the robot to identify and guide the way, and a bunch of flowers is placed at the end. The robot needs to run on the track, get the bouquet and return.
Unlike the fighting robot competition that Jing Ming participated in last time, today's competition robots are all automatic and not controlled by remote control.
Amid applause, the host began to introduce the two teams: "After the previous rounds of competition, the team from xx University of Science and Technology from Province A, the red team in this final, and the xx University of Technology from Province B finally entered the finals Team, the blue side of the final.
Now, we make last-minute preparations for both parties. One minute later, the game started. "
Two teams fiddled with their robots in the corners on either side of the field. The red robot is flat and short, like a two-layer cake; the blue robot is simpler, like a shoe box.
Many students stood up and took pictures with their mobile phones.
The host reminded: "The robots in this competition have light-sensitive operations. Please turn off the flashlights, so as not to affect the competition."
"Okay!" The host's voice returned to enthusiasm, "It's time! Let the robot enter the track and prepare."
Du Ruo was looking up, when suddenly a boy came and stood in front of her, blocking her view.
"..."
She moved to the side, not thinking about whether the boy was standing or not, swaying back and forth. She moved left and right with him helplessly, when suddenly a force behind him lifted her up.
She was startled, and when she realized it, she had already been carried up a step by Jing Ming.
The stairs were narrow and she squeezed beside him.
He looked down at her, and said with disgust, "If you're so short, you should carry a bench with you."
"..." Du Ruo simply said, "I'm 166!"
He deliberately lowered his head and looked at her: "It's really tall."
"..."
She gave him a white look in displeasure, but he was already looking at the field expressionlessly;
She didn't bother to argue with him, so she calmed down and focused on the center.
The robot is in place. All quiet.
The host picked up the microphone and announced:
"Game start!"
In an instant, the two little robots rushed onto the track at the same time, galloped, up and down, left, right, and right. In just a dozen seconds, the red robot rushed to the finish line with an absolute advantage to get the bouquet. Same back to the starting point.
At this time, the blue team's robot has just arrived under the bouquet of its own track.
The host excitedly said: "19 seconds! The game is over! 19 seconds!"
Standing ovation. The boys of the red team excitedly huddled together, jumping and jumping.
"The champion is the red team! The xx University of Science and Technology team from province A!"
While applauding, Jing Ming glanced at the electronic board, 19 seconds. 8 seconds faster than their speed last year, a big improvement.
He glanced briefly, then moved his eyes down to the robot that had lost the game.
At this moment, the audience was boiling, and no one paid any attention to the robot that looked like a shoe box. It didn't know that it had lost, and it was still trying to run on the track.
he was thinking,
"Will it feel sad?" Du Ruo whispered to himself, looking at the "cardboard box" on the track.
Jing Ming was startled suddenly, and turned to look at her in surprise.
And she has already bowed her head and walked down the steps with the crowd. After showing the competition certificate to the volunteers, she entered the infield and walked towards the humanoid robot competition field.
She is dressed so formally today because she is in Yi Kun's participating team.
Generally speaking, engineering students don't care about clothing, just wear uniforms during the competition. But Yi Kun is very particular, every time he competes, at least his jacket must be a suit.
Jing Ming put his hands in his pockets and walked over.
There was still a short time before the game, and Du Ruo stood on the sidelines patiently waiting for her companions.
Jing Ming walked to the side of the track and stopped two or three meters away from her. Like her, face the field.
At this time, there was no one on the playing field, and the lively stands around them had nothing to do with them.
The white runway lines are a little dazzling under the lights,
Jing Ming glanced at the follow spot light on the overhead light stand, and asked, "Li Wei said you participated in the design and production of Astro Boy?"
Astro Boy is the name of orbit's participating robot.
Du Ruo reacted for a second or two before realizing that he was talking to her, and replied blankly: "Yes."
Jing Ming turned to look at her, and asked from a distance of two or three meters, "Who do you think will win?"
Du Ruo didn't say a word at first, she knew Jing Ming's strength, but she didn't think their team was far behind, so she said, "A tie."
Jing Ming raised his eyebrows and hooked the corner of his lower lip, and said, "Not bad."
Du Ruo looked at him suspiciously, and heard him say: "The ignorant is fearless."
"..."
Du Ruo responded by keeping a distance of twenty meters away from him.
Jing Ming felt hehe in his heart, and didn't follow him any more.
Not long after, Li Wei and the others came with the "cucurbit baby".
Cucurbita is a humanoid robot newly developed by Prime, with a height of 50 cm and the size of a child.
From the appearance point of view, there is not much difference between the gourd baby and the robots of other teams. After all, they are all in human form, and there will be no weird-looking guys. The only difference is that most of the other team's robots are black, but Cucurbita is white, very handsome and eye-catching. Still have prime characteristic big eyes, cute and cute.
Robot race is a high-tech project.
Compared with dancing on the spot, the running event greatly increases the difficulty of coordinating the various joints of the robot, and also greatly increases the chance of walking or falling. Coupled with speed, it is even more difficult.
Among the eight schools, one school did not participate in this event, and Jingming School had two participating teams, exactly eight teams. After the lottery is divided into two groups, the losers will be eliminated, and the winners will continue, and the final two teams will be selected for the final.
After each team gets the venue and opponent information, they disperse to their respective playing fields.
It is said that the venues are different, but they are actually in the same area. A large flat ground is divided into four parallel rectangular arenas of the same size, and the competitions start at the same time, which is somewhat similar to the Olympic gymnastics competition.
The surrounding stands were full of spectators, watching the competition of eight teams at the same time.
During the pre-match preparations, the scenes on the big screen always show Jing Ming and Yi Kun, one indifferent and sloppy, the other frosty.
At a certain moment, Jing Ming noticed that the camera was looking at him, and raised his eyes, his eyes were deep and sharp. Through the big screen, the girls at the scene were exclaimed.
In the next second, he looked away boredly.
The camera is always on Du Ruo, because she is the only girl on the field. Her expression was a little dazed, and when she found herself appearing on the big screen, she was startled, and immediately turned her head away, leaving a round back of her head.
Jing Ming glanced at the back of the head, and moved his eyes to the real person—Du Ruo was squatting next to the robot Astro Boy, carefully adjusting something. Li Qinghe squatted with her, their heads were very close to each other.
He withdrew his gaze coldly, and walked to his track.
The track setup is very simple, the runway is 50 meters long and 2 meters wide. 5 seconds will be added for each sideline deviation from the runway once.
Generally speaking, the faster the speed, the easier it is to increase the error and deviate from the track; the easier it is to fall and delay the time.
The running event tests the robot's balance among speed, stability, and straightness.
Prime's first opponent is a university of science and technology.
After the robot got on the runway, it gave an order and ran towards the finish line.
But rather than running, it's more like walking as fast as possible.
Robots are not as flexible as humans. They are equipped with control boards and motors on every joint from the top of the head to the ankles. They are all driven by precise calculation programs, and every joint in the whole body must be coordinated with each other. If there is a large error between the two legs, it is easy to fall and go astray.
No, the opponent's robot had just gone a few steps, and fell down with a slap. The fall was not light, and the shell trembled a few times. But it got up firmly and continued to walk, but the deviation of the two legs was relatively large, and the more it walked, the more crooked it was, and the more crooked it was, it went out of the line.
Yes, add 5 seconds.
The people in their team hurried up to move the robot back to the track, and staggered to the finish line like this.
The gourd baby of the prime team was already waiting at the finish line, taking 58 seconds.
During the same time period, three other teams also won, among them Astro Boy from orbit.
In the stands around the arena, there was applause and cheers one after another.
The loser is eliminated, and the winner continues.
In the second round, Cucurbit Baby still won. It took 57 seconds.
At the end, Jing Ming glanced at the runway next door.
Sure enough, the Astro Boy also won in 59 seconds.
There was a round of applause.
The host became excited again: "Now, the last two teams remaining on the field are! —orbit! —prime!"
There was a scream from the audience.
Both sides are the school's team, and both are home games. The students onlookers are all excited, taking pictures and shouting.
After the knockout round, the atmosphere was brewing a little bit, and it reached its peak at this moment.
The host of our school was also impassioned, waving hand gestures, encouraging the audience to create momentum for the final.
The two teams on the field were very calm, waiting for the host to finish speaking and announce the match.
Competition volunteers seized the last time to clean the track and remove small sand or foreign objects.
Jing Ming looked at the track and pursed his lips slightly. The advantages of both sides are particularly obvious. Prime's gourd baby is fast, has never fallen down, and has never crossed the line.
On the orbit side, Astro Boy's walking route is the straightest.
He faintly sensed something, and turned his head to take a look. Du Ruo stood a few meters away, mingling with the boys in the orbit team. The light from the ceiling of the gymnasium fell down, making her face as transparent as paper, with only the long eyelashes blinking slowly like brushes.
She bit her lower lip lightly, she seemed a little nervous, her eyes were a little hollow, her eyes wandered around, and suddenly she turned to meet his eyes.
There was no emotion in her eyes, like a stranger, she quickly moved away naturally.
The next second, a moving figure blocked her.
The host shouted: "Both robots please take their positions!"
"Let's count down together, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1,—start!"
In an instant, all the students in the stands raised their cameras and mobile phones. In the center of the bright field, two cute robots raced towards the finish line with almost equal speed.
Since they are all teams from the school, each has a considerable number of supporters, the people on the field are pulling their throats, shouting cheers one after another like a competition!
"Astro Boy, come on! Astro Boy, come on!"
"Gourd baby, come on! Calabash baby, come on!"
The shouts were louder and louder, Du Ruo inadvertently pressed his chest, while Jing Ming watched calmly.
But gradually, he frowned, and that strange feeling became more and more obvious. There is something wrong with the gourd baby...
At this moment, nearly halfway through, Astro Boy suddenly fell down.
There was a sound of regret all around.
After Astro Boy fell down, he lay on the ground clumsily, straightened his legs and made a split, tried to sit up, then slowly retracted his legs, stood up, and rejoined the game.
But the gourd baby had already run away happily.
In this competition, Cucurbita was the only robot that did not fall down once.
Jingming and the others refined the dynamic balance detection before the game, and designed a more sophisticated anti-fall gyroscope, which can better deal with large body shaking.
At the same time, he also extremely strictly required the players to calibrate the swing errors of the various joints on the arms and legs, so the gourd baby could walk straight in the first two games.
Although it will gradually deviate as the distance becomes longer, they all reach the end perfectly.
With only the last 10 meters and 9 meters left, Calabash Baby is absolutely in the lead, still running happily and clumsily.
The voices cheering Jingming on the field took an overwhelming advantage:
"Gourd baby, come on! Calabash baby, come on!"
"Jingming, come on! Jingming, come on!"
But Jingming's brows frowned even deeper, he had noticed it a long time ago, but it wasn't so obvious just now. Sure enough, at the final sprint stage, he saw the gourd baby getting more and more crooked.
Perhaps due to the errors accumulated in the previous two races, this time the route was significantly more deflected than the first two.
He glanced at Wan Ziang, who understood, and immediately gestured to Zhu Tao at the end of the track. Zhu Tao leaned over and followed the naive gourd baby step by step, waiting for him to step on the line. Bring him back to the track for the first time.
The gourd baby ran obediently and stupidly, getting closer to the finish line and... the side line.
In the last few meters, all the audience found this problem. They all fell silent for a while, held their breath, and stared at the leading gourd baby, waving its short legs like a toddler, running towards end.
The closer you are to the finish line, the closer you are to the sideline. Which line will you step on first? !
In the deadly silence, the little guy finally walked to the end, crossed the finish line with his left foot, and stepped on the intersection of the finish line and the sideline with his right heel.
It took 56 seconds.
In an instant, there was an uproar. There was a lot of discussion.
Everyone stared at the big screen and pointed - Cucurbita's right foot stepped on the finish line, but hit the sideline.
Astro Boy followed closely behind, the scene became a little quieter, and continued to watch the game. When Astro Boy walked to the finish line, the electronic screen displayed 1 minute and 1 second.
Another uproar!
If Cucurbita is judged to step on the line and add 5 seconds, it will be tied with Astro Boy! Double crown!
The scene was like an explosion, never seen such a situation in a game, all the referees gathered at the finish line in an emergency, and watched, discussed, and discussed around the calabash baby's right foot.
The whole audience stretched their necks, discussing and waiting.
On the track side, Jing Ming's people remained silent, while Yi Kun's people nervously waved their fists, waiting for the referee's final decision.
Only the gourd baby didn't know it yet, tilted its head happily, rolled its eyes, and slowly waved its arms to show its cuteness.
In the end, the referee decided.
The track line is painted white and the line itself is about 8 cm wide. The calabash baby’s heel overlaps the sideline by less than 1 cm, so it is not considered stepping on the line, let alone crossing the line.
The prime team Cucurbita won with a final score of 56 seconds.
The atmosphere at the scene was once again high, celebrating the birth of the champion.
Prime's side was very quiet, and the whole team was not excited about winning the prize. For their extremely demanding captain, the opponent was themselves, and they lost if they touched the sideline.
There is no frustration of failure on the orbit side, on the contrary, it is relatively relaxed.
The host was still excited, thinking that this result was an anecdote, announcing the champion while interacting with the audience.
"The final winner is!" The microphone was raised towards the auditorium,
"Prime!" The audience yelled wildly.
The champions were very calm, and Zhu Tao led the gourd baby back from the finish line.
Jing Ming knelt down, touched Calabash Baby's head, hugged him again, and said, "Thank you."
He looked at Orbit again. Although they finished second, they had a good atmosphere.
Yi Kun walked past Du Ruo and gave her a thumbs up expressionlessly.
The girl who was praised blushed and smiled, facing her teammates brightly with a smiling face. Everyone who passed by praised her, she smiled very embarrassedly, blushed, stroked the broken hair at the temples, and her ears were also red.
Jing Ming looked at her through the shadows passing by on the two runways.
He had already noticed that Astro Boy's walking route was unusually straight—there was something extra in its body.
To be honest, Jing Ming didn't pay too much attention to this game, and didn't think too much about it. As for how not to deviate from the route, what he did was to calibrate and improve the accuracy.
She didn't expect her to do the opposite, not caring about the error, and installed a photosensitive sensor in the robot to directly detect the sidelines on both sides, so that the robot would stay away from the sidelines and keep walking in the middle.
Oh, Du Ruochun, you're quite smart.