These are all research projects with a relatively large workload, and there are also some research projects with a relatively small workload, such as pollution-free fireworks, which is one of them. The relevant technical information has been handed over to Cornerstone Materials Company.
Compared with traditional gunpowder, the new type of firework gunpowder is a hydrogen-oxygen compound, which does not contain any sulfur or nitrate. It turns into water after burning and does not pollute the air at all.
Moreover, there are a lot of hydrogen and oxygen elements. Among the synthesis plans he provided, there was an industrial process for synthesizing new fireworks and gunpowder with water. However, the production process was relatively troublesome and the cost was higher than current gunpowder.
In fact, in addition to the gunpowder formula used in fireworks, he simply developed military gunpowder products. The overall cost is cheaper than current military gunpowder. He has handed it over to China Military Industrial Company to be responsible for production and subsequent development.
Zhao Yi thinks the slight increase in the cost of new fireworks and gunpowder is acceptable, especially as the domestic people are getting richer and can afford the cost. More importantly, the safety is much higher than the current fireworks and gunpowder.
As long as there is no open flame, the new gunpowder will not explode no matter how it collides. Whether it is during the process of making fireworks or during transportation, the cost will also be reduced a lot.
But fireworks are not just gunpowder. In order to add various colors, other additives are added. Some of these additives are also polluting to a certain extent and the cost is relatively high.
Therefore, in line with the principle of sending Buddha to the West, Zhao Yi also developed gunpowder raw materials of various colors based on hydroxide compounds, which can meet the production requirements of almost all types of fireworks.
Although the domestic fireworks market may be very large, he has not thought about getting involved in this industry. The most he can do is let Cornerstone Materials Company provide raw materials to the market.
As for the size of the current market for fireworks raw materials, it is not very clear. The country has not issued relevant bans, and only a few large cities have introduced local control measures.
In the absence of a large-scale ban on traditional fireworks and firecrackers, low-end fireworks and firecrackers still use traditional formulas at a lower cost. Only high-end fireworks are more cost-effective to use new gunpowder.
However, with the continuous development of the domestic economy, the increasing size of cities, and the safety risks caused by traditional fireworks, the ban on traditional fireworks and firecrackers has only been a matter of the past few years.
Although Zhao Yi feels that he has done a lot of merit in doing this, at least every New Year is not as deserted as the past year, but he does not pay much attention to the scale of the output value.
Most of his thoughts now are focused on the research and development of robots. If it were the kind of robot in his previous life, to be honest, he wouldn't need to spend so much effort.
Because that kind of robot is too simple for him, basically without any difficulty, and it doesn't even require advanced artificial intelligence to handle it, and he doesn't need to do anything about the hardware.
Even his companies can develop the kind of robots from previous lives, because the artificial intelligence technology they have is enough, and the rest is a problem of big data processing.
For example, the smart home central processing program developed by Polaris Company already has such capabilities. It can operate various home appliances according to the user's commands, and can even chat with the user.
However, such a product must be connected to the Internet at all times and connected to Polaris' intelligent backend. With the terminal hardware capabilities, it can only perform simple command operations. It is very difficult to have a smooth conversation.
As for the robot developed by Zhao Yi himself, the artificial intelligence program will still use a junior artificial intelligence clone. After training it in daily life, its performance is the same as that of ordinary people, and there is no difference at all from the dialogue.
However, in order to achieve such an effect, the current semiconductor technology is seriously insufficient. The robot body space is limited and it is impossible to install a large number of processors. The computing power is naturally very limited.
Therefore, the first thing Zhao Yi needs to develop is a chip product that is small in size and powerful in computing power. However, it is impossible to achieve this with current silicon chips. Even if it reaches the industrial level of later generations, it is still beyond its capabilities.
More importantly, current chips all perform serial computing, while the operating mode of the human brain is obviously parallel computing. If you want a robot to behave like an ordinary person, you naturally need to provide high-speed parallel computing capabilities.
Of course, quantum computers are the first choice for such computers. However, the difficulty of quantum computers is that they consume large amounts of energy and are difficult to miniaturize. They are not yet suitable for use by robots.
So he set his sights on photon computers. He had previously asked Tiangong Precision Instrument Company to develop them, but the progress was not very fast and could not meet his current needs.
Even if Tiangong Precision Instrument Company develops a usable photonic computer, the initial version is very large and can only be used on a background server at most.
If you want to make a photonic chip small enough, you must have special chip materials and special optical logic path components, all of which need to be developed by Zhao Yi himself.
The first is the need for optical chip materials similar to the silicon materials in silicon-based chips. In fact, this material is not difficult for him, but the related equipment for the production and use of this material takes him too much time.
However, for these necessary equipment, he just sorted out the design data and gave it to Tiangong Precision Instrument Company, asking them to develop prototypes and related production lines based on the data.
In order to further speed up the computing power of optical chips, the electrical path logic judgment mode of silicon-based chips is not used. Power on means 1, and power off means 0.
He remembered our traditional Bagua and planned to use the octal system. At the same time, ordinary white light can be divided into seven colors. If no light passes through, there are 8 colors, which just correspond to the Bagua.
In order to realize this idea, he also personally developed a special optical chip lens element that can selectively transmit that color of light according to conditions. In addition, a special laser emitter is also needed.
After completing these basic tasks, he can start the actual production of photonic chips. He even built a small photonic chip production line in his physics laboratory.
After solving the problem of photonic chips, the robot's computing module is basically completed. Moreover, photonic chips are not susceptible to electromagnetic interference, have a very long service life, and consume little power, making them very suitable for robots. .
Compared with photonic chips, the technical difficulty of designing the skin used by robots will only be higher, because like human skin, it needs to be densely covered with a large number of sensors. Only in this way can the perception of the outside world reach the same level as humans. .
And in order for the robot to behave the same as ordinary people, the vision, feel and performance of the skin must be the same as human skin. It is impossible to tell the difference. It even secretes sweat and even grows hair like human skin.
If it is attacked or injured, it will behave like human skin, with bleeding and bruises appearing, but it cannot be biological skin because it is too fragile.
In addition to the skin, another difficulty is to imitate the human internal organs, meridians and blood circulation system. The purpose is of course not to be exactly the same as humans, but to implement a complete bio-energy conversion system inside.
In other words, the robots he developed can not only be driven by electric energy, but they can also obtain energy supply through food just like ordinary people, and can even use it to charge the built-in battery.
In order for these robots to integrate well into human society, these materials cannot be ordinary materials. They must be X-rayed and the images obtained by ordinary people will be the same.
The reason why he has such high requirements is to enable these robots to survive around the world and integrate into the local social environment.
Some of them will be teachers, workers, scholars, government personnel, and military personnel. Only when they are fully integrated into the local society can they be of great help to Zhao Yichi.
As for how much help these robots can give, it depends on how successful they are locally. The greater their achievements, the greater their help will naturally be.
However, with the powerful computing power of these robots, it is very easy to stand out, and their achievements are much higher than ordinary people. After all, they have no shame and are completely rational machines.
It is precisely because of such high requirements that even if he can solve all technical problems with the help of Zhou Ling, the time it takes is very long, at least for him, it belongs to the long category.
While Zhao Yi was busy in the laboratory in darkness, the Chinese Academy of Sciences and the Chinese Academy of Engineering respectively selected him into the list of additional academicians.
In fact, the two houses of Congress had wanted to grant him the title of academician a long time ago, but at that time, in order to reduce his sense of presence, they refused on the grounds of his young age.
Now several years have passed and he is now 25 years old. Although compared with those academicians, he is still too young, but it is still reasonable.
The Academy of Sciences actually said it was okay. He had won a Fields Medal before. This achievement was enough for him to be elected as an academician of the Academy of Sciences, so this time the Academy of Sciences also selected him to the co-opted list with this title.
As for the academician of the Academy of Engineering, it is more troublesome. It is not that his engineering achievements are not enough, but that there are too many, and many of them are projects for which it is inconvenient to disclose the specific R&D personnel to the outside world.
The reason given by the Academy of Engineering this time is very sufficient. He is the chief engineer of the ultra-high-speed railway project. His achievement is to lead our country to develop an ultra-high-speed railway system. This achievement is completely enough to be an academician of the Academy of Engineering.
Even though Zhao Yi doesn't seem to care much about the domestic ultra-high-speed rail system, this is basically a fact. He has never been to CRRC Group until now, and he doesn't even know where their headquarters address is.
The reason why he is so unconcerned is mainly because he only holds 50% of the shares in this company. Although this share ratio is not low, in his opinion, it is not his own company, so he is not particularly concerned about it.
Although the person in charge of this company has not met Zhao Yi several times so far, he does hold the title of chief engineer in the research and development project team of my country's high-speed railway system.
It’s just that he usually sends the technical data encrypted to each project leader through the Internet, and the rest is for them to develop their own research based on the technical data.
Fortunately, the technical information he provided was detailed enough. As long as people from each project team follow the diagrams, they can obtain the desired results. This is why the entire ultra-high-speed railway project team came up with engineering research results in such a short period of time.
The reason why he was co-opted as an academician of the Academy of Engineering with this title is that the ultra-high-speed railway has sufficient technical content and will not arouse other people's sensitivities.
The current demand for ultra-high-speed railways is domestic. Only the technology from Japan and Germany can be used abroad. The technology in other countries is far behind in this area, and the benefits it touches are not great.
Unlike the semiconductor industry, the rise of my country's semiconductor industry has moved too many people's cheeses. As a result, he has never dared to appear in front of the world as the founder of the great development of the semiconductor industry, fearing that others would secretly poke his head open.
In fact, there was no communication with him in advance about the election of academicians this time. He has been hiding in the laboratory. It is not easy to find him outside. He is too lazy to pay attention to ordinary things.
People on both sides of the house also knew that if they communicated in advance, they might still be rejected by him. This time, they planned to deal with it first and then inform him after completing all the procedures.
The reason why they are so anxious is because when foreign scholars visit, there are always foreign scholars who want to meet him. This makes the Academy of Sciences very embarrassed, and they are even embarrassed to say that he is not yet an academician of the Academy of Sciences.
If one or two foreign scholars said this, they would be better off, and they would all reject him on the grounds that it was difficult to contact him. There are not many math weirdos in history, and this statement can also be explained.
It's just that after it happened too many times, there were inevitably some rumors outside, which had a certain negative impact on our country's international image, and also made the Academy of Sciences very embarrassed.
Now he is 25 years old. Although he is still young enough, it is unjustifiable to refuse on the grounds of youth. In addition, this time there is also an instruction from the top, and he has to be included in the work schedule of the two houses.
However, his appearance on the internal public list caused a very strong response. People who know him know that he should have been on the list long ago, and they have always been curious about why he has not been elected as an academician.
And those who didn't understand it looked at the list and saw that such a young person was elected as an academician. They looked down with curiosity and saw in his achievement column that he was a Fields Medal winner, at least with complete mathematical achievements. It's qualified.
In fact, the achievements announced by the Academy of Sciences include not only achievements in mathematics, but also achievements in materials physics, chemistry, and biology. However, these achievements are not clearly stated, and everyone does not have much impression.
In fact, he can afford the listed achievements. Although there are many papers published in his name, there is basically no communication. His name is just like the pen name of an online author, it is just a symbol.
Take the achievements in materials science. Cornerstone Materials has become the world's largest materials supplier. The basis of their current achievements is the computational materials theory they provided.
His achievements in chemistry are less conspicuous than other achievements, but in major domestic scientific research projects, he has provided a lot of theoretical knowledge and technology in chemistry, but it is just scattered.
His achievements in biology are even more impressive. It can be said that my country's genetic science was established by him. Currently, the Qingnong Biological Laboratory is still digesting the biological theories and technologies he provided.
It’s just that he is so low-key that many people quote his papers and don’t know who he is.
Therefore, even people who study the field of biology in China have little impression of Zhao Yi. Some people even have no impression at all. He is not as famous as the researchers in Qingnong Biological Laboratory.
With the help of the biological theories and technologies he provided, researchers from Qingnong Biological Laboratory have published many heavyweight papers in top domestic journals, which have received very high attention. Some are even called the Beidou of Domestic Biological Sciences. .
Those who know the inside story know that although these people's biological talents are good, they are still far behind Zhao Yi. It's just that he is not keen on these false names and is very willing to give up his achievements to those who are excellent in research. researcher.
Qingnong Biological Laboratory is currently the professional laboratory with the highest technical level in the field of biological research in China. Its level is not only leading in the country, but also far ahead of foreign biotechnology.
It's just that the scientific papers of Qingnong Biological Laboratory are only published in domestic academic journals. As for whether foreign researchers will subscribe to watch them, they don't care.
However, Qingnong Biological Laboratory has a lot of patented technologies registered internationally, especially in the field of plant research, which is far ahead of the international level. Other institutions can't even see their backs.
In fact, the domestic scientific community knew very little about his biotechnology level before. Everyone knows that Qingnong Biological Laboratory can develop so fast in the biological field, and it must be due to his contribution, otherwise it would not be good to develop by leaps and bounds. explained.
But if you want to know the situation in detail, you won't get much information, because the management inside is very strict, and many technologies and information are kept absolutely confidential.
It's just that he changed the body of Mr. Deng Jiaxian before, which completely exposed his technical ability in biology. It was also through this incident that the top officials in the country had a more detailed understanding of his technical ability in biology.
This is also the reason why biology was added to his achievements. However, his biological achievements are difficult to describe externally, so the description is not detailed.
The later introduction to his life is even simpler, but what is revealed from this simple introduction is the feeling of being gifted by nature.
It only took me one year to study undergraduate mathematics and get my diploma. It also took me one year to complete my postgraduate biology major. The following introduction was a bit confusing, except that I was currently working in the Qingnong Biological Laboratory.
Compared with the secretiveness and vagueness of the Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Engineering is much simpler and rougher. In the achievement column, it directly writes the founder of my country's ultra-high-speed railway system, the chief engineer of the project, and led the development of my country's ultra-high-speed railway.
Anyone who is Chinese knows that the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway is currently under construction. It is said that the construction will be completed around July. By then, my country's ultra-high-speed railway will usher in great development.
Prior to this, our country basically did not have any high-speed rail technology reserves. It was only known in academia that the country had established a high-speed rail project team. As for the progress inside, few people could make it clear at the time.
According to the speculations of industry insiders, it will take at least about 10 years for our country to reach the level of Japan and Germany in high-speed rail technology. This is still under a relatively smooth situation.
As a result, the facts slapped them in the face. It only took about 2 years for my country's high-speed rail project team to complete the full set of technologies from its establishment, and the technical indicators were much higher than those of Japan and Germany's high-speed rail technology.
During the construction of the Beijing-Tianjin high-speed railway in our country, the country's major media spent huge resources on publicity, because compared with other achievements, the high-speed rail project is more intuitive and the publicity effect will be better.
Regarding other achievements, when it comes to various parameters, it is difficult for ordinary people without much scientific knowledge to understand the meaning of these parameters, but the high-speed rail is different. Everyone knows what the speed is, and everyone knows it when it is said.
If you still don’t know the specific concept, just compare it with the speed of an airplane. Generally, the speed of an airplane is only more than 800 kilometers per hour. The speed of a train on the ground can almost catch up with the speed of an airplane.
As the chief engineer of such an important domestic engineering project, if he is not qualified to be elected as an academician of the Academy of Engineering, then no one else is qualified to be elected as an academician of the Academy of Engineering.
Of course, not all academicians in the two academies don't know him. There are still quite a few academicians who have come into contact with him at work, but he doesn't usually talk about technology.
For example, there are many academicians in the aerospace field, and quite a few of them even help in Future Space Technology Company. They have come into contact with Zhao Yi, but Zhao Yi always inspects Future Space Technology Company as the boss.
This makes some academicians think that Zhao Yi is just a businessman and they have no objective understanding of his technical strength. Even if they know that he has some knowledge of aerospace technology, they have no intuitive understanding of how deep it is.
As for understanding it through internal employees, it is also very difficult. Among Zhao Yi's companies, it is forbidden to disclose the source of technology to the outside world. If you violate the regulations and lead to serious consequences, you will be punished.
In this way, Zhao Yi was included in the co-option list. Without being present, he passed various links and became an official academician of the two houses.
It was only after he personally received the official notification from the academicians of the two academies that he realized that he had become an academician of the two academies inexplicably, which made him smile bitterly.
In fact, he had planned to leave the country before. If the two academies discussed with him in advance, he would not refuse. With the title of academician of the two academies, some things would be much more convenient.
The title of academician involves not only the issue of scientific honors, but also the scientific research resources behind it. However, Zhao Yi does not need these resources. Whether it is funds or manpower, the resources in his hands are sufficient.
Therefore, although he became an academician of the two academies, it actually just gained an additional title, and nothing else changed. He could still do whatever he was supposed to do, and there was no big binding force on him. (End of chapter)