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The Robot Dog That Wants to Carry Mountain Workers’ Loads Must First Earn Human Trust

The event will be held on November 2 in Shandong Tian, organized by the People's Government of Shandong City, Central Broadcasting Station Shandong Main Station, Central Broadcasting Station News New Media Center, Central Broadcasting Station Sports Youth

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“ In the first ever robotic downhill competition, several robot dogs crawled to half a mountain with their equipment.

The event will be held on November 2 in Shandong-Tian, organized jointly by the People's Government of Tianjin, the Shandong Headquarters, the Shandong News New Media Center, the Shandong Youth Programming Center, the Shandong Software Evaluation Center (Industrial and Informatics Ministry Software and Integrated Circuit Promotion Center) and will be hosted by the Shandong People's Government.

The trail is located on a 3.8-kilometre, 3,100-step climbing trail from the Red Gate to the Central Gate, and the actual transfer lines of the mountain workers are directly written into the design of the negative re-race, which robots will examine, which is what the mountain workers do every day.

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Photo: The first CMG World Robot Climbing Tournament in Thailand, where the foot-robot climbed the steepest ladder (source: Lightning News)

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This is the most dangerous route for mountaineers, and more machines are registered this year.

Choosing a mountaineer is a popular game in Thailand. A handgun, two sets of supplies, a shoulder to shoulder to send things to half a mountain, often pressing a dark shoulder imprint. This year, in the heavyweight division of this competition, there is a special candidate on the road: foot robots.

With standard equipment, they climb the stone stairs along the real pick-up line, and the task point corresponds to the pick-up of the mountain workers' daily transport links, which section is the most difficult, where to switch shoulders, the robot to pass is the pick-up of the mountain workers' daily routes. The race takes the pick-up of the mountain workers to write three words into the race design, allowing the robot to test the mountain workers' daily activities.

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It's a lot easier to fight on stairs than not throwing stuff on your back.

It's not hard to climb up, it's hard to walk with everything and not lose anything. The heavyweight race puts the focus on one word: the stuff can't fall, the posture can't collapse, the halfway can't stop. The robot leaves the red door, first with eggs, cucumbers, mineral water, these easy-to-use everyday items, go to Mother's House, and then change the search lights, medicine boxes, rescue bags, cotton clothes and mountain rescue equipment, simulating the scene of emergency transportation in the mountains.

On this route, for a real backpack, tired of resting on the edge, of changing hands, of looking for steady rocks under their feet; robots do not have these instincts, the stone stairs are irregular, the gradient changes, the day is still raining, the roads are wet, anything is not handled well, the posture is twisted, the goods are thrown away. The rules give the whole autonomy a higher weight, relying on remote control to lose, because they can judge robots that can cope with the change of the stone stairs, even if they really take the job to challenge the mountaineers.

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If you want a machine to cook for people, you have to be grounded first.

There is a team of professional mountaineers who are responsible for transferring the equipment from half-mountain to accommodation. Please note that the transfer is in the middle, the end is half-mountain, not from the top of the mountain to the foot of the mountain.

You can imagine that picture: a mountain worker bent over his shoulders with a robot that wanted to take his class and walked down a number of stone steps along his path. The first step was to get the robot to the bottom, it was away from the real man, and it was only a short distance from the man.

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Do you think it's possible to replace the Boy Scouts of America, and the contest gives the answer?

Putting robots and mountaineers in the same place is the easiest way to raise a question: will the mountaineers be replaced?

The robot takes the most tired, the most repetitive, the part that no one wants to do for the long term, the long distance, the heavy weight, the fixed lines transfer, which are the most wear and tear the body. It is pushed down, indicating that it is not yet mature, and also indicating that the value of the mountain worker has not disappeared, only moved from its position, from its own shell to the bottom of the robot. The race is to promote production, not to replace people, is to pull people alive from the heaviest shoulders, to let robots to dig out the amount of hard work that should not have been done by humans.

The robot that was being transported stopped at the point where it was picking up dozens of tons of roads to and from the mountains every day. The robot wanted to take over, but it had to be stopped by humans.

The first CMG World Robot Dentistry will be held in Shandong Tai on November 2nd, and the latest developments in the event can be seen in the official announcement by the organisers.


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