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“So far, we've been talking about the Rare Metals business in Navis, and now we have to move on to the next agenda.”

When Dr. Nam manipulated the iPad and switched menus, a keynote titled XHR1 Project appeared on the screen. Nam continued the conversation, pointing his finger at Keynote.

“The XHR1 project is one of the most important projects our Navis Technology will undertake in the future."

The next keynote screen to the target was marked with a complex symbol of a human-looking robot blueprint. Ben asked Dr. Nam if he was curious about the project.

“Well, what is this? I see blueprints like some kind of robot blueprint."

“Yes, you did. This is the robot development plan. It's a plan to develop a human onboard giant robot."

Ben panicked for a moment and went on to speak to Dr. Nam.

“Wh-if it's a robot, is it a big, man-made Japanese cartoon guitar that my daughter used to love when she was a kid? ”

“Your gouge."

Ben, who was serious about a ridiculous story that he never expected, couldn't hide the embarrassing look of his elongation. He never imagined it would be a giant robot on board.

he had encountered a lot of unusual technologies in the IT company, but he thought that even a giant robot could exist in cartoons, and in reality there was very little to go on with this ridiculous project in the company.

Of course, there are a lot of geeks among the entrepreneurs he experienced, especially the venture capitalists. No, not a lot. Very common.

No, it would be hard to find someone who is not a freak. Obviously, it's very difficult to find normal people there, so they usually call Silicon Valley people "geeks."

A CEO of a Silicon Valley company bought and rode Cobra, an Army attack helicopter that was used to capture monsters in Korea, and in some cases Google Sergei purchased a supersonic jet fighter that was used by the Air Force and is being piloted and used for personal use.

In addition to Sergey Brin, the CEOs who drive fighters can be found without difficulty. There is one person who folds them, so one of the geeks is Richard Branson, who created a plan for space tourism using a freak private space shuttle.

There was a reckless challenge to an enormous project called space tourism in the United States and Russia, and he was Richard Branson, a British nerd entrepreneur.

In the case of Richard Branson, who did record business and low-cost aeronautics, he stepped up the development of the spacecraft and actually completed SpaceShip One and SpaceShip Two as the world's first commercial spacecraft, and set up SpacePort America, the world's first civilian space airport, and is now doing space tourism as a private spaceshuttle, and surprisingly, he's been seeing black holes since the first year.

Tesla's Ellen Musk later joined the Giggs Group, planning an electric sports car, an electric car followed by a supersonic jet and a trans-American supersonic bullet train fired with compressed air.

The supersonic electric jet plan seems crazy, but it's not a toy gun BB bullet that looks crazier than that. It's a place where these lunatics who think about firing people with compressed air at supersonic speeds gather.

Ellen, who has only seen such tremendous geeks, has been far beyond the level of the geeks she's been through since she was a big-footed robot, but she continues to talk with a very godlike face.

“You're a giant robot, aren't you? Hahaha”

As if I met my comrade in the story of Ben's Gaogei Robot, Nam Dr.Nam's gaze became awkward and stared at him brightly.

In the conference room, the hope of embarrassing Dr. Nam and Ben looks so contrasted with the sunny appearance of Dr. Nam.

Ben gets close and keeps the conversation cool as he wakes up like an industry giant.

“Oh, yes, Dr. Nam, it's definitely a giant robot that's recently opened up around the niche market among global rich.

I've seen Kuradas, a giant robot made in Japan on YouTube.

One person can get on board, his upper arms and hands move, his grief goes out, and he's got over $1.5 million worth of Korean money on wheels instead of legs.

They've already said over 3,000 contracts have been completed. ”

Ben nodded and replied as if Nam empathized with his opinion, capturing the commercialization and market size of giant robots as he came from Sequor Capital.

“Kuradas is the world's most recent onboard giant robot. But it's just an adult toy, and the XHR1 that we're planning is the perfect giant bipedestrian robot with proper limb movement. ”

Ben's expression became serious at Nam's words. It's because there's a huge difference between wheeling a giant robot like Curadas and legs.

Ben was not a professional engineer, but he was indirectly familiar with the difficulties because he had invested in numerous technology companies.

The difference between wheels and legs in macrorobots can easily be described from the perspective of the general public as the difference between making a tricycle and making a manned spacecraft starting on Mars.

It was not an easy problem to adapt because it cost astronomical development due to its difficulty and increased difficulty.

“Hmm. Is that possible? With current technology?”

Dr. Nam decisively replied to Ben's questionable tone.

“Two core technologies are already being developed at Navis Technology's R&D Center to build two-step robots.

The first one is a metal air cell, which has a theoretical accumulation capacity of 8 to 10 times that of a lithium-ion battery used for an existing electric car or next generation aircraft, and is a perfect battery with no risk of explosion.

The second one is supermetallic, which refers to ultra-light superalloys. ”

“Oh, I've heard of metal air cells.

I know that the American Electrofuel Company developed it for military use and produced it exclusively, and a small Korean company developed a similar kind of product and is now delivering it to the United States Department of Defense. "

As an IT Capitalist, Ben also responded to Dr. Nam's comments with a keen sense of the next generation of IT technologies. Dr. Nam also listened to Ben and looked satisfied.

“Yes, we acquired that small business that Ben mentioned a while ago in the name of a holding company. MATI is a small business located in Seongnam, Gyeonggi-do. Based on the technology of those air metal cells, we are developing a completely new and innovative second generation air metal cells, and we are now at a stage where more than 70% of the development is complete. ”

Dr. Nam floated the degradation diagram of the metal air cell on the screen. In the exploded view, the shape of the rectangle shows the configuration of the air intake control unit, the air filter, the metal catalyst, and the metal particles such as zinc, and the control chip.

In fact, metal air cells are one of the most important components in building a giant robot.

Even if you take an electric car as an example, there is still a reason why commercialization is slow: battery weight. It is the lithium cell that is said to be the most efficient of the cells developed so far, with batteries accounting for the largest volume and weight among the machine components.

However, in the case of lithium batteries currently used in electric vehicles or mobile phones, there is a limitation on the capacitance and there is a high risk of explosion.

The use of lithium batteries is in many ways dangerous given the risk of fire or explosion caused by impact, especially in the case of onboard giant robots such as XHR1, which are subjected to massive gravitational accelerations and shocks at major areas.

There is such a risk of catastrophe, unlike small lithium batteries, which are frequently encountered on the news or in mobile phone explosions.

If you go wrong, the XHR1 Hiking Robot may turn into a walking giant explosive, not a walking giant robot.

In addition, in order to create a large-scale powered lithium-ion cell, a powerful cooling device must be developed to eliminate the exothermic phenomenon caused by the electrochemical reaction of lithium and has a very unstable hazard that can explode at any time with a thermal bottleneck even if it is functioning properly. That is why there are many limitations.

However, an air metal cell can make a supercharged battery that is much more efficient and much lighter than conventional lithium ion cells without the risk of explosion if only oxygen and water are contained in the atmosphere. It is theoretically capable of achieving up to 8 times the efficiency of a lithium ion cell.

The atmosphere consists of nitrogen, oxygen and water vapour, of which the metal air cell uses oxygen and water vapour.

The operating principle is much simpler than expected, so simply combining oxygen with water captured from the atmosphere (one hydrogen and one oxygen) to create hydroxide ions (one hydrogen and one oxygen) fills the air metal cell. That is, the hydroxide ions become anodic.

When electricity is required, electricity is generated by reacting hydroxide ions with a cathode metal catalyst, such as platinum or zinc, to produce electrons while reducing them with oxygen and water, and causing the electrons to flow to a conductor connected with the metal catalyst.

Air metal cells have no risk of explosion and almost perfect form of cell support, but there are disadvantages that are difficult to make, making them very difficult to develop second generation cells.

However, to move a huge body of XHR1 that weighs more than 10 tons at 8.5 meters, it requires at least eight second-generation large-capacity air metal cells, and Dr. Nam has acquired MATI, a domestic air metal cell company, and is running an R&D center, and is currently spending a lot of money to develop a second-generation metal air cell.

Of course, in addition to air metal cells, there are a number of technical problems that need to be overcome in order to make the humanity's first bi-level walking robot called XHR1, but the development of the robot is at least 30% complete once the battery is complete.

That's how important it is. Nam explained the check section of the Air Metal Cell Composition Chart to Ben specifically.

“As you can see from the red check here, before we finished the air-metal cell, we had a couple of technical problems that we were having, so we brought our contractors here.

Now downstairs on this plane, there are various contractors who will solve some of our problems.

It would be the first thing we encounter at our company for Ben. Details of the technical issues are contained in this iPad mini, backed up in the cloud, as well as in the XHR1Project app. ”

Nam took one iPad mini out of the drawer in the conference room table and handed it to Ben. Ben said to Dr. Nam with a bitter smile.

“You are as curious and fearful as those who have monopolized the world's rare metals in a very short time.

I've been working as a venture capitalist for 25 years, and I've never seen anyone so scared in my life, Steve Jobs, Larry Page, Sergey Brin, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg.

Honestly, I'm sweating on my back right now. "

“Hahaha, I see it as a joke. We're not that scary people. Clean, naive, pure magic-day whites."

JiHoon replied to Ben with an unknown smile. Dr. Nam and Chang Su (Pure?) laughed and stared at Ben nonstop.

Ben, tired of the appearance of three people who look pure but not pure at all and look evil, got out of his place and said.

“Huh... really... I should get down there right now. ”

“Yes, Ben. Thank you. Interpreter support will help you. ”

In Dr. Nam's words, hope and Ben left the conference room side by side. After leaving the conference room, Ben made up his mind, thinking bitterly.

‘Well, somehow the down payment is $9 million and the annual salary is $5 million, and because of the performance pay, you're going to do that hard job. Anyway, I'm going to have a fun experience because of the development of a two-person walking manned robot. Forward’

Ben was fascinated by an unknown field he had never experienced as an adventurous American.

Hope also left the conference room, confused by Ben's shock, the destructive power of the bearing deal he saw in the conference room a little while ago, and his mental shock at the business plan he had never anticipated, the XHR1 project.

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