Chapter 794 Designing an advanced general-purpose robot

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After the Chinese New Year, it was followed by visiting relatives. He is not as busy as before, but he would like to spend more time at relatives' homes, so he didn't do much work during the day.

He still goes to bed on time after dinner at night, and still reads technical materials related to robots every night during the Chinese New Year.

In fact, this is also the case. In the past few days, he has seen a lot of advanced robot technology, which has greatly inspired him, and some robots are even too amazing.

For example, there is a very magical robot, which is made of multi-state special materials, which can show liquid, solid and gas states. It is simply an invincible Xiaoqiang.

To be honest, he was very excited about this robot, but he didn't dare to take it out casually, because once it got out of control, it would be a disaster, and it would take a huge price to eliminate this kind of robot that was out of control.

Immune to any physical damage, even any bombs are ineffective against it, the only way is to control it in a sealed space, then slowly compress this space, fix it, and use chemical methods to destroy him.

Although he is a little confident in the safety of artificial intelligence, no one can guarantee that there will be no accidents. He is still more cautious about such a powerful robot.

And there is no need for such a powerful robot now, even the robots produced by Qinglong Technology Company are considered very advanced products at the current level of technology.

After these days of hard work, the robot he wants to develop has gradually taken shape in his mind. It is much more advanced than the robot he imagined before, but it is not beyond the cognition of ordinary people.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, his companies gradually resumed work and production, and most employees began to return to work, while he himself began to formally develop universal robots.

According to the robot technology he studied during this period, the robot's control, calculation, and data storage will adopt bionic brain technology, which is currently the most suitable central control technology for robots.

In addition, it will also be equipped with a photonic chip and a super-large-capacity memory chip to store data that needs to remember all the details, and it will not be easily washed out by other memories.

The reason why the additional computing and storage modules are added is that the bionic brain uses fuzzy memory, and the memory used for daily life data is not a big problem. After all, it will not have much impact if it is remembered or not.

But it is impossible to have a vague state in the memory of professional knowledge and the storage of absolute orders, and every detail must be remembered.

Without this extra computing power and memory module, the robot acting as a teacher may forget part of the knowledge while speaking on the podium, and it will take a long time to remember.

And the control procedures and absolute orders must not be forgotten,

If the robot is released for a long time, and even the restrictive order is forgotten, wouldn't it be completely out of control?

Therefore, it is necessary to have a bionic brain that is good at fuzzy memory and calculation, so that the robot looks more like a human being and will not have obvious behavioral differences from humans.

However, it is also necessary to ensure that the robot has absolute memory ability and precise calculation ability for some key information and data, which is also an important guarantee for the robot to far exceed human capabilities.

Most human beings may not even be able to understand complex mental arithmetic problems. If robots behave like this, it will probably cause a lot of trouble.

Additional computing chips and storage modules can solve this problem very well, allowing it to do many exact calculations at its fingertips, and its work efficiency is definitely much higher than that of humans.

It's just that the bionic brain and the extra data computing and storage modules, if not well integrated, may produce a large time difference and the performance will not be so smooth.

Although it can't be seen under normal circumstances, it may look like a mentally retarded person under special circumstances, so he needs to personally integrate the bionic brain and additional computing and storage modules.

This can not only reduce the physical distance between the two, but also better allow the exchange of data information between the two, and once one of them is destroyed, the other will also be damaged.

The reason for doing this is for safety. When the robot is used on the market, someone will definitely conduct research. Even if it is mainly for rent, it cannot prevent others from hijacking it.

This approach is not only a means of anti-theft, but also for the sake of caution. If the robot really has a problem of control failure, it can be better solved and avoid causing great trouble to the society.

In order to avoid electromagnetic interference to the robot, the signal transmission of the robot's nerve control system uses optical signals, which can effectively resist electromagnetic interference.

The transmission of information in the human nervous system is through the combination of electrical signals and chemical signals, and it is precisely because of the combination of the two that the electromagnetic interference to the human body is effectively reduced.

It is impossible for a robot to be as complex as the human body, and chemical signals transmit information slowly, which is why people always feel a little bit off in their thinking and actions.

Among the many solutions, he believes that the use of lasers for signal transmission is the best choice for robots. It can not only resist electromagnetic interference, but also transmit information at the fastest speed, allowing robots to respond far more than humans.

Another more complicated one is the bionic peripheral nerves. The reason why human beings can respond to external stimuli is basically done by nerve endings.

The manifestations in the robot are various sensors, but with the sensor technology of Qinglong Technology Company, the sensitivity is low, the volume is large, and the structure is relatively complicated.

Therefore, he needs to find special materials that can realize the perception of the external environment by virtue of the characteristics of the materials. Otherwise, the cost to achieve human perception is too high.

In order to be able to find materials that meet the requirements, he read the books in the induction material area of ​​the virtual library for four or five days in a row, only looking at the technical outline, and giving up immediately if he did not meet the requirements.

Even so, he still spent a lot of time and finally found suitable sensing materials, which are very sensitive to temperature, humidity, strength, pressure, light, sound waves, etc.

These are the sensing capabilities based on the characteristics of the material itself. Compared with sensors with complex structures, the technical difficulty is greatly simplified, and the cost in this regard can be reduced by at least hundreds of times.

With the perception ability and signal transmission, how to turn this information into a response and let the robot make corresponding actions is also a very important topic.

The sensors mentioned above are collectively referred to as receptors, and those that control the robot to respond are collectively referred to as effectors, including the control of the bones, which is shown here as the control of the main frame.

As well as the control of tissues and organs such as muscles, here it is the control of the special filling material of the robot, so the filling material must also have responsiveness, not just any material can be used as a filling material.

In order to find suitable filling materials, he had to look through a large number of books, and it took him a week to find these suitable materials.

Any movement will generate heat. He must not only consider whether the material can respond properly, but also consider the issue of temperature control. Otherwise, the temperature will fluctuate, which will have a great impact on the entire system.

Although it is not necessary to control it at around 36 degrees Celsius like humans, it is also necessary to control it in a temperature range as much as possible to achieve the purpose of system stability.

Therefore, there is not only filling material inside the robot, but also a complex temperature control system that can always maintain the body temperature of the robot in one area.

The most suitable temperature control system is the sweat glands of our human body, so this universal robot also needs to drink water, and then transport the drinking water to various tissues of the body through the internal complex delivery system.

Then take away the excess heat and let it out from the robot's skin, showing that the robot will sweat when it is too hot. This method seems complicated, but it is actually the lowest-cost cooling system.

When these problems are solved, the energy problem becomes the key. There is no doubt that the robot uses electric energy, which is convenient and cheap, and other energy sources cannot match it.

Therefore, Leaf Book equips the robot with an energy core, which is located in the heart of the robot. The energy core is only the size of the heart, and can store 100 kWh of electricity at a time.

Since the energy utilization rate of the robot is very high, it can be used for about a week at a high intensity on a single charge, which looks perfect.

But he thinks this is not enough, because electricity is artificial energy after all, and certain conditions are required to obtain electricity. If the conditions are not met, the robot will stop cooking.

In order to avoid this situation and make the robot behave almost indistinguishably from humans, he plans to add an additional bioenergy conversion system.

That is to say, robots can also supplement energy by eating high-calorie food like humans, and convert biochemical energy into electrical energy for storage.

And the performance of this system in the robot body is a complete set of digestive system. It is almost designed to imitate the structure of the human digestive system, but the details and principles are completely different.

Robots don't need to eat food to obtain nutritional supplements, they only need to obtain the energy in it, and it is impossible to be exactly the same as the human digestive system.

The core is actually a bio-energy extractor, which is installed in the stomach of the robot, and the substances after the energy is extracted will be excreted through the intestines.

This approach is just in case, and it is not used at all at ordinary times. Compared with inefficient bio-energy acquisition, charging and supplementing energy is much more efficient.

Then there is the overall support of the robot, that is, our human bones. There are ready-made technical reserves in this regard, and there are ready-made technical materials for semi-biological robots that he has read before.

This bone material looks the same as human bones, but its strength is dozens of times that of human bones, coupled with powerful joint drive design and key control systems.

It can make the strength of the robot hundreds of times higher than that of humans. It is not bad for humans to be able to lift 100 catties of heavy objects, while robots can easily lift tens of thousands of catties of heavy objects.

Moreover, this kind of bionic bone is not only strong, but also very tough, and has a certain self-healing ability. If the damage is not serious, it can recover naturally through healing.

Thinking of this, Ye Shu thinks that such a sophisticated robot will be very difficult to repair if it is damaged, and the cost will be very high, which will make it difficult to reduce the cost of use.

To solve this problem, it is the best solution for the robot to have self-healing ability, so he redesigned the robot as a whole, so that the robot has the possibility of self-healing.

Then, with the help of a powerful water-cooling system and the digestive system inside the robot, the required materials can be delivered to all parts of the robot's body in the form of nutrients.

By sending nutrients to replenish the damaged part, the damaged part will gradually obtain the materials needed for repair, then the problem comes, and these materials need to have the ability to repair themselves.

Among the materials he is looking for, some have such ability, such as skin and bone materials, because these are the two parts that are most easily damaged. If they do not have self-repair, there will be a big problem.

However, the internal functional modules and filler materials did not have such capabilities, so he had to look for suitable materials again, which took a few days.

The above is still only in the imagination stage. After all the basic preparations are completed, a month has passed and it is mid-March.

Next, the overall design of the robot is needed. Don’t think that the overall design is very simple. In fact, it is also difficult. Considering the realistic factors and the goals he wants to achieve, he needs to keep improving.

Moreover, the design is also very complicated. The number of sensors alone is tens of billions. If there is no artificial intelligence to help design, it will be difficult to complete it in a short time by manpower alone.

After the overall design of the robot was completed, it was the end of March. So far, all the parts were finally solved, and then it took 1 day to organize them into technical documents.

After sorting out the technical materials, Leaf Book distributes them to each of its subsidiaries according to the technical categories that each of its industries is good at, allowing them to build relevant industrial chains according to the given technical materials.

And his next step is to study ultra-precise 3D printing technology, which can directly print the robot from head to toe layer by layer, and finally form a complete robot.

In the robotics technology he saw before, there are similar technologies, and Kirin Basic Industries Group itself also has 3D printing technology. It is difficult for others to do this, but it is relatively easy for him.

However, due to the complexity of the entire 3D printing system, it still took him two days to complete it. After completion, he immediately conducted robot production experiments in the virtual laboratory.

After some tests, it basically met his requirements, and some unsatisfactory parts were modified to basically meet his goals. So far, all the links of the universal robot have been completed.

One such precision 3D printing equipment can produce one general-purpose robot in 5 days. To meet the annual production requirement of one million general-purpose robots, about 15,000 such equipment need to be produced.

After handing over the technical information of this set of equipment to Kirin Basic Industry Group, he felt a lot easier suddenly, and finally completed what he needed to do in the general robot project.

He also evaluated the cost of producing this robot. The total cost of each robot is about 500,000 yuan, which is calculated based on the annual output of one million units. If there is more output, it can be reduced.

He really wants to see what changes will be brought to society when this universal robot comes out. I don’t know about the others, but it will be good for his industries in general.

Instead of being immersed in emotion, he immediately threw himself into the next research task. It is already April and he needs to hurry up.

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