The Sci-Fi Ring
Chapter 14

Formidable Enemy

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After getting out of the car and seeing the vast science and technology museum, they suddenly felt a sense of insignificance. This was the power of humanity; they could build such strange and wonderful buildings.

"Let's go, let's go in with the team. Right now, all the universities in Ning City should be gathered in the venue. We are just one of the representative teams."

Chen Feng nodded, then followed Li Zhengyang inside. After entering and seeing everything around him, he felt a bit curious. The robots inside were all strange and varied, with all sorts of designs.

Li Zhengyang and their robot resembled a spider because spiders have a unique structure that allows them to perfectly navigate any ground terrain. Looking around, there were countless spider robots.

There was no novelty at all. If it were Chen Feng, he would definitely not make a spider robot. Even making a worm robot would be much better than a spider robot.

However, that being said, only spider robots were easy to make. If they were to make a worm robot, they probably wouldn't have the capability.

Worm robots require some very precise components. First, they need to ensure how the worm robot operates. If it uses its abdomen for propulsion, it would be even more complex and might even jam the gears.

Some electronic short circuits are also difficult to create, and these are uncontrollable factors. Therefore, looking around, there were no worm robots at all.

Coming here this time was the right decision, because looking at the dazzling array of robots, Chen Feng's thoughts became more open. Of course, when he went back, he wouldn't just make some meaningless things, because even if he made them, there would be no sales.

They kept moving forward and soon arrived at a booth specifically reserved for Ning City University. Then they placed their robot on it. Of course, they were just one of many robot exhibition stands.

However, when they placed their robot on it, it still attracted the attention of many people, because setting aside everything else, the structure of their robot was very exquisite. Even among spider robots, the spider robots of other contestants were not as beautiful as the one made by Li Zhengyang and his team.

Because, putting everything else aside, this was made by Chen Feng for them using a 3D Printer. Many parts were made by Chen Feng, so in terms of exquisiteness, no other robot could compare.

All the electronic components were wrapped inside the spider robot's shell. This spider robot emitted a silver light, just like a metal spider, and its structure was also very good, so it was very eye-catching when presented to people.

However, subsequently, another booth also attracted a lot of attention. The sign on this booth read Ning City University of Science and Technology.

The exhibit displayed on the Ning City University of Science and Technology booth was a bird robot. This was one of the few bird robots. It's important to know that bird robots stand on two legs, so their complexity is a notch higher.

In addition, some bird robots also need to be able to glide simply, but for them, for some college students, this requirement is not necessary.

After all, bird robots that can fly have high requirements, but the design difficulty of bird robots themselves is there, so just this point makes the difference in skill immediately apparent.

Li Zhengyang's eyes were also fixed on the Ning City University of Science and Technology booth with fervent intensity. For him, this was a Formidable Enemy that must be defeated.

Robot competitions are divided into many events, whether it's running, overcoming obstacles, or some other events, they are all very complex. Although the technical difficulty of bird robots is there, once they are made, they also have unique advantages.

At least the bird robot's body is relatively light, allowing it to jump up easily, and it has decorative feathers on its wings, which can help it maintain balance.

The balance of spider robots is also very good, even several levels better than bird robots in some respects, but the technical difficulty is relatively low, so the scoring rate is not as high as that of bird robots.

"How is it? Confident? That's our Formidable Enemy."

Chen Feng said to Li Zhengyang.

"Of course I'm confident, but confidence is one thing, and whether we can successfully defeat them is another."

That was the reality. Although Li Zhengyang was confident, they couldn't guarantee they could defeat them, so they could only wait and see the results.

Since the schedule was tight, the competition started around 10 o'clock. They had already entered the venue. After entering, all irrelevant personnel had to be cleared from the arena. As for the contestants, they could naturally enter the arena. The arena was quite large and divided into many areas, each with a specific scene.

Chen Feng actually had no interest in these competitions. He just wanted to see the robots' maneuverability, but as the competition progressed, looking at the performance of these robots, he felt they were like toys.

They couldn't even be said to be like toys; they were these people's toys, still a long way off from truly top-tier robots. Compared to the intelligent robots he saw in movies, these were completely different species.

It seems that the research of robots still has a long way to go. Robot research represents many layers of meaning. First, there must be connection devices similar to neural synapses. Such connection devices are a worldwide problem, and then there is artificial intelligence.

Artificial intelligence is easy to understand; it is a simulated computing program that can have autonomous consciousness. This simulated computing program can react like a human and perform various complex actions and expressions.

Just these two points have already made countless scientists shy away, so what's so interesting about the robots researched by this group of children? However, some of the robots did give Chen Feng some other ideas. At least in the future, when creating, he wouldn't be too rigid. Maybe in the future, he would use this 3D Printer to print out some other things.

Chen Feng's gaze fell on Li Zhengyang and their robot, and he found that their previous performance was quite good. With the parts printed by Chen Feng's 3D Printer, their robot's coordination was much stronger, even much stronger than that bird robot in some sense.

But that bird robot was also not to be underestimated. Looking at it, it seemed to have also completed some difficult movements, and overcoming some complex terrain couldn't trouble this bird robot.

Undoubtedly, that bird robot was definitely Li Zhengyang and their Formidable Enemy.

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