Deep Space Wandering Fleet-Chapter 43 - : Heroes Don’t Ask About Origins
Chapter 43: Chapter 43: Heroes Don’t Ask About Origins
Xisha University, Mechanical Engineering Building.
Several business representatives rushed to a meeting room, quietly discussing.
“Nowadays, are all university students this impressive? When I was in my twenties, I should have still been handing out flyers on the street…” Ma Teng joked while leaning on the chair.
As the CEO of “Evolver Robot” company, a Fortune 500 tech-originated firm, Ma Teng deeply understood the value of the thesis, even though it had not been formally published.
But it not being published had turned into a good thing at this moment, becoming their opportunity to overtake their competitors.
“President Ma, heroes needn’t ask about each other’s origins, ambition isn’t confined to the elderly. Real geniuses are already reaching their productive phase in their twenties,” said a middle-aged man sitting opposite him named Ding Peng, also the chairman of a major corporation.
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Ma Teng continued, “Honestly, I couldn’t understand what that paper was about. It’s just that my team thinks it’s important. Since I was free, I might as well come and see.”
“You jest, President Ma—if you don’t understand it, why rush over personally?”
The discussion hadn’t yet started, but there was already an invisible haze of gunpowder in the meeting room. Everyone was a competitor, fiercely rivalrous in the marketplace.
What does cutting-edge robotics rely on?
Technology!
Especially these kinds of highly autonomous robots, the better the coordination, the more humanoid they are, the more favored they are in the market.
But, it’s difficult.
Current robotic hands always have a bit of an “excavator” feel when they move.
Plainly speaking, they are stiff.
Human movements can be like this, can be like that, full of the spirituality belonging to life, but robotic hands can’t do that—it’s actually about the motion control algorithms.
This paper, one could say, had resolved the most critical “control” part, and it was likely to be an industry upgrade!
Therefore, they were all deeply concerned.
Professor Lu Junzhe saw their confrontational demeanor and was inwardly delighted.
Go on, just keep boosting each other’s bids, the higher the better, the happier I am!
“…Professor Lu, this paper, it hasn’t been sent to other companies, has it?”
“No, just to you five firms, those who have close collaboration with our university, only you were informed.”
“That’s good. If it weren’t for submission elsewhere, I would even consider buying the paper outright, why even bother publishing it?”
“President Ma, that wouldn’t be right, intellectual property should belong to all humanity!”
Professor Lu cleared his throat, “Ahem, Chairmen, trying to recruit Zhang Yuan is basically impossible now. He belongs to the Deep Space Foundation and will be following that spaceship leaving…”
Ma Teng smiled and said, “Professor Lu, what you mentioned are not problems. If he’s willing to stay on Earth, we have ways to exempt him from punishment…”
“Even if he gets punished by the government, we will still hire him.”
At this moment, the door opened, and several young people along with two middle-aged individuals walked in.
Wang Lili and Han Ziyue immediately ran to the back row. Facing so many big shots, they really didn’t dare to joke around, they would rather hide if possible.
Ma Teng, engrossed in high-spirited discussions, couldn’t help but feel a bit of a headache, as two of the individuals were negotiation representatives from the Deep Space Foundation.
Facing a twenty-something-year-old, tricking him with some phrases or getting him to sign some agreement wasn’t simple? But facing these crafty old fellows, trying to make even a little money from them is not easy.
“This is Zhang Yuan. This one is President Ma, this one is Master Ding, and this is…” Professor Lu introduced the sitting bosses one by one.
“So young!”
“Truly a tiger’s son indeed!”
A round of praise made Zhang Yuan feel rather embarrassed.
Professor Lu paused, smiled and said, “We take your paper very seriously. Next, regarding the control of movement, could you talk about it? Of course, if it involves what you are planning to write in your next paper, you can choose not to.”
In fact, this was also a test of Zhang Yuan’s strength.
Although he had written that critical paper, no one really knew how strong he actually was. Just by talking face to face for a while, these old-timers could quickly discern a person’s real caliber.
“My paper just roughly outlined a framework, there are still seven directions in total for the subsequent part…”
Seven directions?
Professor Lu was slightly startled; they had only discussed five yesterday.
“The first direction is like this…”
Zhang Yuan eloquently spoke, first paraphrasing his own paper in plain language, then he began to describe these extensions.
There were really too many details, and due to the immense amount of engineering involved, it’s not something Zhang Yuan could complete alone.
So, he spoke openly about it.
He was under no pressure to write the paper, but these professors were; during the discussion, bringing all these ideas out was beneficial to everyone. He wasn’t planning to write further about it anyway.
For more than two hours he discussed the seven directions, occasionally interrupted by questions.
Professor Lu’s eyebrows were furrowed and relaxed at times as he posed some questions.
There were some particularly tricky questions that Zhang Yuan couldn’t answer right away, but he could easily answer the vast majority of them.
“…Senior, did you understand?” Han Ziyue couldn’t make sense of a single word, aimlessly playing with her phone below when she suddenly asked a master’s student next to her.
The senior blushed and remained silent for a while.
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“Sister, what about you?” She then asked Wang Lili.
“What? Of course…I understood.” Wang Lili lied, a bit flushed, continuously shifting the topic.
Luckily, Han Ziyue didn’t ask very professional questions, “What are they talking about? Can this project make money?”
Wang Lili pursed her lips, “There are two Fortune 500 companies here, do you think they can make money? By the way, are you really his girlfriend?”
Han Ziyue blinked provocatively, “I’ve known him for much longer than you have!”
Wang Lili laughed, “Don’t worry, I already have a boyfriend. I was just gossiping. Is that right?”
“Of course…not! I just feel his earnest demeanor is quite handsome. Although he might look awkward when he messes up, when he’s smart, he’s really attractive!”
“Handsome? What does that mean?”
“An ancient Xia language, it means a bit handsome.”
“Okay…” Wang Lili felt she was a bit out of touch with the times, “He’s not staying on Earth just because of you, right?”
“It doesn’t matter, I just want to have fun with him during his last few days, not necessarily to be his girlfriend… Isn’t it okay to just be friends?”
