The formation and running-in of the team took a lot of time, but these were not important. When Lu Zixin saw the works of the previous robot research team, he felt that the task was arduous.
The first is balance. In their previous works, the four-legged machines had difficulty maintaining balance. Although it is said that he can "walk", Lu Zixin prefers to call it "crawling"!
That's right, when he saw a robot crawling on the ground, Lu Zixin felt like he was seeing a robotic turtle. Compared with the work of Boston Dynamics Robotics, the balance is still a bit behind.
Then there is the load-bearing. Due to the old design of the power system, the load-carrying capacity of the machine is not high. It can only carry light objects and has low practical value.
Machine coordination is a more difficult technical field. If you want a robot to not only walk, but also imitate humans in jumping, climbing, performing tricks, etc., every small part needs to be integrated into the overall balance system and stability system.
"Bring Dongfang Hao and Zhang over," Lu Zixin ordered, "We still have to rely on them for robot design."
RI-8901 itself is an industrial robot and has been upgraded. Lu Zixin asked him to design a relatively convenient industrial robot, mainly used for industrial production.
Dongfang Hao is responsible for construction and technical guidance, and improving other robot designs.
Within two or three days of this order, Lu Zixin received a complaint from the Future City Intelligent Robot Company.
"Mr. Lu, it's not that we don't cooperate, it's that this little leader is too unreliable. He directly denied all our designs and insulted us, saying that our designs were garbage." In the company, the original military research team researcher complained to Lu Zixin about Dongfang Hao.
"Dongfang Hao is indeed somewhat incapable of speaking... but in terms of mechanical design, his ideas are relatively advanced." Lu Zixin smoothed things over.
However, the researchers present did not appreciate it at all. A doctor of mechanical dynamics said directly: "We cannot accept his leadership."
It was difficult for Lu Zixin to order them, because this company cooperated with the Ministry of National Defense on research and development, and these researchers who were originally members of the military were very arrogant. But when a young man like Dongfang Hao, who was "uninhibited" and seemed unreliable, led the team, they became even more reluctant and strongly demanded that Dongfang Hao be replaced.
"Let's do this. I already understand the situation and I'll coordinate." Lu Zixin said.
"I won't do it anymore, I won't do it anymore, this bunch of idiots won't listen to me at all!" At home, Dongfang Hao opened his brain, took out a part and put it in the refrigerator, and said: "A bunch of stupid people are so angry that my parts are about to burn. If it falls, I won’t do it anymore and let them play by themselves!”
Lu Zixin said: "Can you speak more tactfully? If you directly say to someone who is a veteran expert in their 60s or 70s that what others designed is rubbish, anyone else would be angry. This problem has not happened once or twice. I have never had it happen before. Then They are our own members of the Hongxin Group.”
"Why should I be tactful? Autobots are never tactful!" Dongfang Hao said in a stunned tone.
"Robot research must continue... Since they don't want to, let them make parts." Lu Zixin did not spoil the researchers. Since they didn't listen to the leadership, they just went to do odd jobs, making parts or something. of.
Lu Zixin's arrangement made those researchers even more angry. They thought that they were the main body in designing the robot, and it was the people from the Hongxin Group who should cooperate with their research. Who knew that now the team of the Hongxin Group completely ignored their design and R&D, let them design and improve some insignificant parts.
So out of anger, they applied for an independent project and developed it themselves. They only relied on the intelligent system of Hongxin Group and the rest was still designed by them.
Their R&D funds all came from military investment, and Lu Zixin didn't care, the company leaders directly approved it. In this way, two independent robot research teams appeared in one company, which was very strange.
In the newly built robot research center in Future City, two research teams have already started working.
The military team's code name is the "Iron Arm" research team, which means that robots will become human beings' strong steel arms.
Hong Xin's team is codenamed the "God" research team. This codename was naturally obtained by Dongfang Hao. He believed that their team was like God, bestowing "life" on the machine.
The Iron Arm research team, experts from the military, have begun to work nervously and orderly. Before that, they had already achieved results, and now they are naturally constantly improving and overcoming difficulties.
"Although the trouble with the team leader was very annoying before, the intelligent brain and sensing equipment of Hongxin Group are really good. Some of the problems we encountered before have been solved directly!" A senior researcher in the Iron Arm team said.
"Yes, I am more confident now. We are correcting the balance system and redesigning the power system through the intelligent system. In a few months, our robot will be redone and its performance will definitely be more than three times what it is now!" said a colleague confidently .
"At that time, I guess they couldn't even make a mechanical toy." Someone said, and he was naturally referring to the "Celestial God" team. It's ridiculous that a team that has never made a robot wants to command them!
The God team was also very busy. The composition of the Tianshen team is relatively complex, including researchers from Hongxin Intelligence, Pengyun Machinery, Pengyun Battery, and quantum brain researchers.
Hongxin Group has invested more than tens of billions of Chinese dollars in research and development every day in the past few years, and has indeed cultivated a group of reliable scientific researchers. And because of the high welfare benefits and high technology of Hongxin Group, top talents from all over the world flow here.
As long as you have stayed in a laboratory of Hongxin Group, you will definitely be a top talent with high salary after returning to China.
"Have the modules of the power pack been released? We need them for simulation experiments!"
"It's out, three versions, and two more versions are being revised!"
"Has the balance system been debugged?"
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The R&D scene here is completely different from that on the other side. Although they have no foundation in robot design before, the research methods they use are very advanced and greatly improve efficiency—that is, virtual simulation experiments.
Each group enters its own data into the Hongxiaoxiao intelligent system and uses the intelligent simulation experiment system to conduct experiments. In this way, all experiments can be completed instantly without wasting time, and Hongxiaoxiao can directly find out The problem is that tens of thousands of top scientific researchers are working at the same time.
Here, they also used the latest technological achievements of Hongxin Group, the 3D precision parts printer. The parts on the robot can also be manufactured directly through the 3D printer. If there is a suitable design plan, all the components of the robot can be directly printed out and assembled. None of it is a problem.