ocean-life Chapter 146, Product 2: Light Armor!
Chapter 146, Product 2: Light Armor!
Su Chen didn't rush to reveal the thing on the right that had everyone curious about.
He first walked to the silver-white metal box on the left and gently patted its outer shell.
"Let me first introduce the first product—the G1 Industrial Gateway (official version)."
As Su Chen spoke, the parameter page of the official version of the G1 industrial gateway lit up on the giant screen behind him.
"Compared to the engineering prototypes you are already using, the official version has three core upgrades."
Su Chen held up three fingers.
"First, the chip has been upgraded from the Minecraft 200 to the Minecraft 220, increasing computing power by approximately 35%."
A soft gasp of amazement rippled through the audience. A 35% increase in computing power is a remarkable generational leap for industrial-grade equipment.
"Secondly, the latency for edge AI inference has been reduced from 15 milliseconds to 11 milliseconds."
As soon as this number was announced, the eyes of several strategic member representatives sitting in the front row lit up instantly.
11 milliseconds!
It's worth noting that the best industrial-grade drone gateways on the market typically have inference latency between 50 and 80 milliseconds.
DJI's FlightCore 2.0 boasts a 35-millisecond timer, which has been hailed as the industry benchmark.
The official version of G1 achieved 11 milliseconds—less than a third of FlightCore 2.0's speed!
"Third, the official version adds a real-time situational awareness function for multi-machine collaboration."
After saying this, Su Chen turned to look at the side of the stage.
A burly, middle-aged man with a resolute face walked onto the stage—that was Zhou Zhenguo, the founder of Xiangyu Intelligent.
"Hello everyone, I'm Zhou Zhenguo from Xiangyu Intelligent."
Zhou Zhenguo's voice was steady and powerful, carrying the confidence of someone who had worked in the industrial field for many years.
"Next, I'll spend fifteen minutes sharing practical data from our experience using the G1 industrial gateway in a Southern Power Grid project."
As Zhou Zhenguo spoke, the giant screen displayed actual footage of Xiangyu Intelligent's work in the Southern Power Grid project—twelve industrial-grade drones shuttling between high-voltage transmission lines for inspection. The real-time status, flight path, and inspection data of each drone were clearly visible on the management interface of the G1 gateway.
"This project covers more than 3,000 kilometers of power transmission lines in the Pearl River Delta region. We deployed 48 drones and used 12 G1 industrial gateways for zoned management."
Zhou Zhenguo pointed to the data on the large screen and said.
"During two months of real-world testing, the G1 gateway's edge AI inference remained stable between 12 and 15 milliseconds, with zero incidents and zero false positives. One of the most astonishing metrics for our team was the anomaly detection accuracy rate, which reached 99.7%."
This number caused many people in the audience to gasp in shock.
99.7% anomaly detection accuracy!
It is important to understand that in scenarios such as high-voltage power line inspection, a single misjudgment could result in millions of dollars in economic losses, and a single missed inspection could lead to a large-scale power outage.
The G1 gateway achieved an astonishing 99.7%!
"To be honest, I was skeptical before using the G1."
Zhou Zhenguo smiled honestly.
"After all, Mr. Su's company has only been established for a little over a year, while our Xiangyu has been making industrial-grade drones for almost eight years. I had my doubts about whether a new company's products could withstand the stringent requirements of industrial-grade manufacturing."
"But the data from two months of actual combat completely convinced me."
Zhou Zhenguo's words were simple yet powerful, and many people present nodded slightly—Zhou Zhenguo's words carried a lot of weight because Xiangyu Intelligent is recognized in the industry as a technical powerhouse, and they never easily endorse others.
"So three weeks ago, we made a decision—to purchase an additional fifty G1 industrial gateways, in preparation for covering all sixty-four of our inspection routes next year."
After Zhou Zhenguo finished speaking, he bowed slightly and walked off the stage amidst enthusiastic applause.
Immediately afterwards, the screen switched to a video—
Above thousands of acres of rice paddies in Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Six Tianyu Aerospace T-6 agricultural plant protection drones formed a neat formation and flew automatically in the afterglow of the setting sun, accurately spraying along the boundary line of the rice field.
There are no operators in the video – this is a completely unattended automated plant protection operation.
"This is a video of Lu Ming, founder of Tianyu Aerospace Technology, giving a demonstration in Chiang Mai, Thailand."
Su Chen explained calmly.
"Six T-6 drones were centrally coordinated through a single G1 industrial gateway, achieving fully autonomous formation-based plant protection. This resulted in six times the operational efficiency of traditional manual operation and a 40% reduction in pesticide use."
The five-minute video finished playing in the quiet lecture hall, followed by even more enthusiastic applause.
Many attendees from the agricultural plant protection sector had their eyes light up – they saw their companies' future potential in this video.
"Okay, that concludes the introduction to the official version of the G1 industrial gateway."
Su Chen nodded slightly.
"The full version will be available for pre-order within a week of the summit's conclusion, with the first 100 affiliate members receiving a 20% discount."
After saying this, Su Chen turned and walked to the right side of the display stand—the mysterious item that had everyone curious for the better part of an hour.
It was covered by a piece of black velvet, flat in shape, making it impossible to tell what it was.
Su Chen reached out and ripped off the velvet cloth.
……
"Is this a board?"
Many people at the scene were surprised to see that under the velvet was a translucent, thin plate with a faint silver-gray sheen. Their eyes showed obvious disappointment.
After waiting so long, you're telling me the second product is just a circuit board?!
"Isn't this just carbon fiber sheet? Which drone manufacturer doesn't use carbon fiber?"
A technical director from a drone manufacturer in the front row frowned and muttered something under his breath.
"Exactly, what's so great about releasing carbon fiber composite materials? They're everywhere on the market."
His colleague next to him echoed this.
"To be honest, I'm a little disappointed. I thought it would be some kind of game-changer related to MEMS sensors."
The partners from several investment firms in the back row also exchanged disappointed glances.
Although those present were all industry professionals, and wouldn't stand up and leave like ordinary audience members at a consumer product launch event, many people's interest had clearly faded.
Several people sitting in the last row had even taken out their phones and started scrolling through messages.
"People these days are indeed a bit impatient."
Seeing this, Su Chen shook his head slightly, a faint smile appearing on his lips.
He then turned to the side of the stage and waved slightly.
Soon, a burly man walked onto the stage from the side. He was wearing a tight-fitting black overalls, and his arms were thick and powerful—clearly someone who had long been engaged in heavy physical labor.
What's even more eye-catching is what he's holding—a large industrial sledgehammer with a long handle, commonly seen on construction sites!
"Huh?!"
The audience looked surprised as they watched the burly man slowly walk onto the stage carrying a large iron sledgehammer.
Those who were already scrolling through their phones subconsciously looked up, curiously watching what was about to happen on stage.
A smile appeared on Su Chen's lips as he pointed to the thin plate and said:
"As you can see, the second product we are releasing this time is indeed a material."
A super composite material whose hardness, tensile strength, and impact resistance are all groundbreaking and revolutionary, defying industry expectations.
Internally, we named it 'Light Armor'.
Before he finished speaking, the burly man had already raised the giant iron hammer!
He took a deep breath, his arms bulging with veins, and slammed the large iron hammer down on the thin plate with a whooshing sound!
"boom!"
A dull sound echoed throughout the lecture hall.
The display stand holding the thin panel suddenly shook, and the two staff members who were holding it up were jolted back half a step.
But that thin plate—
Completely unharmed!
"hiss--"
Gasps of astonishment filled the air.
The technical director who had just been muttering "What's so great about releasing carbon fiber?" now stared wide-eyed, his mouth agape, unable to utter a word.
Because he knew all too well that ordinary carbon fiber sheets, even if they didn't break, would show obvious dents and delamination under this kind of hammering force.
But this thin plate doesn't have a single mark on it?!
"Again!"
Su Chen said calmly.
Without saying a word, the burly man raised his big iron hammer and smashed it down three more times in a row!
"Bang! Bang! Bang!"
Each strike was delivered with full force; the hammer slammed into the thin plate with a dull thud, causing the display stand to shake violently.
But the thin plate remained completely still, without even a scratch on its surface.
The scene fell into a deathly silence.
Then, the silence was broken—not by applause, but by a cacophony of discussion.
"Something's not right, this isn't ordinary carbon fiber!"
The technical director suddenly stood up, his eyes fixed on the thin panel on the stage.
"Ordinary carbon fiber composites simply cannot achieve this level of impact resistance! Even aerospace-grade T800 carbon fiber will experience matrix cracking under this force!"
"That's right!"
His colleague next to him also stood up excitedly.
"And look closely—that sheet looks incredibly thin! Given the strength of regular carbon fiber, to achieve that kind of hammer-resistant effect, it would need to be at least 5 to 8 millimeters thick. But that sheet looks…"
He swallowed hard and uttered a guess that even he himself couldn't believe.
"It looks less than 1 millimeter."
At this moment, Su Chen on stage seemed to hear the discussion below the stage. He smiled slightly and said to the staff:
"Remove the clamps."
"OK."
In front of nearly a thousand spectators, two staff members disassembled the metal clamps that held the thin plate in place.
The thin plate was carefully lifted by the staff with both hands and slowly rotated under the spotlight.
Light shines through the edge of the thin plate—
People finally saw its thickness.
"this?!"
A huge gasp erupted from the crowd!
Because that board was incredibly thin!
On the large screen, a close-up shot from a high-definition camera clearly showed the side of the thin plate—it was almost as thin as paper!
Immediately afterwards, a staff member took out a precision digital micrometer and carefully measured the thickness of the thin plate in front of everyone.
The numbers on the micrometer appeared clearly on the big screen—
0.25 mm
"As you can see."
Su Chen's voice was calm and clear.
"Our 'light armor' material just withstood four full-force hammer blows from a strong man without any damage, and its thickness is 0.25 millimeters."
This thickness might not be easy for everyone to grasp intuitively—it's roughly the thickness of three A4 sheets of paper stacked together.
Su Chen's words caused an uproar at the scene.
The thickness of three A4 sheets of paper!
How could a material as thick as three A4 sheets of paper withstand the full force of an industrial sledgehammer?!
Is this still the carbon fiber material they know?
"This is not scientific!"
The technical director blurted it out.
他做了二十多年的无人机结构工程师，接触过市面上几乎所有的碳纤维複合材料——T300、T700、T800、T1000——没有任何一种碳纤维能在0.25毫米的厚度下达到这种抗冲击性能！
This is not carbon fiber at all!
Or rather, it was a completely new material far beyond his understanding!
Su Chen seemed to sense the shock and confusion in the audience. He walked to the large screen and turned to the next page—
That is a scanning electron microscope image of the material's microstructure.
"The full name of 'Light Armor' is 'Graphene-Reinforced Carbon Fiber Nanocomposite Material'."
Su Chen pointed to the electron microscope image and said.
"In short, we uniformly dispersed graphene nanosheets in a carbon fiber matrix and achieved nanoscale interface enhancement through a special process we developed ourselves."
This allows the 'lightweight armor' to maintain the lightweight advantages of carbon fiber while achieving a tensile strength 3.5 times that of aerospace-grade T1000 carbon fiber and an impact resistance twice that of titanium alloy—all while weighing only one-sixth of titanium alloy.
T1000 carbon fiber has 3.5 times the tensile strength!
Twice the impact resistance of titanium alloy!
It weighs only one-sixth of titanium alloy!
These three sets of data exploded in the auditorium like three bombs, and the noise from the audience instantly reached its peak.
The technical director had stopped saying "this is not scientific"—he was frantically taking pictures of the data on the big screen with his phone, his hands trembling slightly with excitement.
Because he understood better than anyone else present what this data meant—
If the data on "light armor" is true, then the weight of the drone could be reduced by more than 50%!
What does a 50% reduction in fuselage weight mean?
This means that battery life can be increased by 40% to 60%!
Battery life is currently the biggest headache for all drone manufacturers!
The increase in the flight time of an industrial-grade drone from 30 minutes to 50 minutes represents a qualitative leap for all application scenarios, including inspection, surveying, and plant protection!
Moreover, the application of "light armor" is by no means limited to drones—
Mobile phone cases, car bodies, aerospace structural components, military protective equipment...
This is a trillion-dollar materials market!
Thinking of this, the partners from the four investment institutions in the audience sat up straight, their eyes gleaming with shrewdness.
They were disappointed just now, but now they realize that Su Chen, this young man, may be hiding much more than they imagined.
"alright."
Su Chen clapped his hands, interrupting the increasingly noisy discussion below the stage.
"Looking at the data alone might not be intuitive enough."
A meaningful smile curved at the corner of his lips.
"Next, we'll have an interactive session."
As he spoke, Su Chen waved to the side of the stage.
Soon, four staff members carried a long table up. Various tools were neatly arranged on the table—electric drill, hydraulic shears, angle grinder, industrial scissors, hacksaw, chisels, files…
At the other end of the table was a transparent acrylic box—with stacks of hundred-yuan bills neatly arranged inside.
"Five hundred thousand!"
Someone with sharp eyes noticed the approximate amount of cash in the box and exclaimed in surprise.
Su Chen smiled and nodded.
"The rules are simple—there are various tools on the table, and each challenger can choose one tool to destroy this 0.25 mm 'light armor' sheet within sixty seconds."
If anyone can cause a visible damage to this thin plate—even just a small hole or a crack—then the five hundred thousand dollars belongs to the challenger!
As soon as Su Chen finished speaking, the lecture hall erupted in cheers.
Although those present were industry professionals rather than ordinary consumers, the allure of 500,000 yuan in cash would be real for anyone.
What's more, that thin board is only the thickness of three A4 sheets of paper!
There are industrial-grade tools like an electric drill and an angle grinder on the table!
A 0.25 mm thick material can be drilled through in just a few seconds with an electric drill, right?
Many people are full of confidence.
"Who would like to try it first?"
Su Chen glanced around at the nearly one thousand eager eyes below the stage.