Recently, CCTV exposed an electric yak, with a maximum speed of 10 kilometers per hour and a load of 160 kilograms, which is still walking like a fly, which is very suitable for transportation in desert areas with high cold and lack of oxygen.
In sparsely populated areas, this electric yak is much easier to use than most vehicles powered by internal combustion engines!
It also has terrain and environmental perception capabilities, and can cope with a variety of terrains such as steps, trenches, cliffs, etc., showing strong adaptability to the terrain environment.
According to reports, the electric yak to achieve a stable weight-bearing walking key, electric yak has 12 sets of self-developed joint modules, to achieve the configuration of the whole machine 12 degrees of freedom, can complete forward, backward, left shift, right shift, steering and other actions.
Since the successful development of Boston Dogs by Boston Dynamics in 2005, domestic research in this area has also been engaged, because Boston Dynamics is to make this part of its own results public, we can directly use their source code, so similar yaks and small robot dogs, many domestic manufacturers quickly came up with their own products, large and small.
Real police dogs quarrel with robot police dogs
In terms of control level, small robot dogs can also achieve backflips and land steadily, narrowing the gap with Boston. The public security system has begun to try to patrol and patrol with robot dogs, and at the exhibition, there were real police dogs who were not accustomed to the robot police dogs and quarreled. This field is somewhat playing with the momentum of drones, a concept abroad appears, and all domestic scientific research units and universities can pounce on it and strive to take the lead in taking out products to compete for the market. Maybe the advanced nature can not be compared with Boston for the time being, but spreading competition, the inner volume is serious, and it may be rolled into the price of cabbage.
Whether the machine yak tested this time will go to the battlefield in the future cannot be concluded, and there may still be a certain gap between this machine yak and the requirements of the plateau environment combat. However, this kind of testing activity shows that we can provide a larger military and civilian market for these technologies, and the market and scientific research form an interaction, and the momentum in the subsequent development process will be more sufficient, plus the domestic foundation in the field of automatic control and artificial intelligence is not weak, it is possible to catch up.
Source: CCTV Military