Chapter 709: Lithium-air batteries also break through

In the following chat, Jiang Bo learned some basic performance and data about the bionic robot from Zhou Shupei.

The robot is built, and after being covered with a layer of bionic skin, it is almost exactly the same as a real person in terms of touch, temperature and vision, and the degree of simulation has reached more than 99.99.

Even more like a real person than those who have undergone plastic surgery.

And the previous problems such as motion friction and sound have also been solved one by one.

Now the robots that have been built can be put into the real world and help humans relieve the pressure of work.

For example, farming, sanitation, express delivery and takeaway, industry, and so on.

Even Zhou Shupei said that if the robot can be given an ID card, it can also allow them to enter the entertainment industry for development.

However, there are drawbacks.

First, all machinery has one thing in common, and that is that it is easy to break.

Second, robots represent the pinnacle of modern industry, and manufacturing is not easy.

Third, the cost is expensive, and a robot like 'Zhou Yi' requires millions of RMB.

Of course, Zhou Shupei also said that if a robot factory is opened and an assembly line is formed, the cost will plummet, but it is not clear how much it will be reduced.

Fourth, because it is necessary to imitate humans, plus the chip will be installed inside the robot, instead of being hidden in the cloud, the power consumption of this kind of bionic robot is very terrifying.

Under normal circumstances, the weight of a bionic robot is 75kg, of which 30kg is a battery pack, but with the current energy density of 200whkg of lithium-ion batteries, the energy storage of a 30kg battery is only 6kwh, that is, 6 degrees.

With the power of 1.2kw of the robot, it will run out of power after 5 hours of continuous operation, and it cannot even meet the standard of continuous work for 8 hours.

Of course, if you increase the weight of the robot's battery pack, you can increase the battery capacity, but the fact is that the larger the weight of the robot, the greater the load, the greater the power, and the larger the volume, the incoordination and instability will gradually increase.

Therefore, according to Zhou Shupei's meaning, the robot in the human form is still 75kg as the perfect standard, and it doesn't matter if the robot is in other forms.

Fifth, the commercial use of bionic robots is bound to cause a large number of ordinary people at the bottom to lose their jobs, which is a big problem.

Although the state has approved the research and commercial use of this area, it is still possible to replace robots in factories, couriers and delivery workers, sweepers and farmers, doctors and construction workers......

The number of unemployed people in the whole society will be counted in the tens of millions or even hundreds of millions.

At this time, if there is no new industry to accept these people, the world will be in turmoil, and an unprecedented and unpredictable change will sweep across China and then spread to the whole world......

After chatting with Zhou Shupei, Jiang Bo found that there were actually only two problems that needed to be solved.

One is the problem of mass production, some materials are more expensive and rare, such as bionic skins, such as robot chips, and ultra-high-precision parts of robots.

The other is the issue of battery capacity.

But it just so happens that among these two problems, the battery capacity is being solved by Black Bones, and the lithium-air battery can solve it perfectly.

The accuracy of the robot's parts is related to CNC machine tools, and Yang Kuishan is also developing and manufacturing.

The rest, the skin and chip problem, it doesn't seem to be very difficult, the skin is technological, and the chip black bone does not have the technology, but it can find someone to OEM.

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After leaving Zhou Shupei's laboratory, Jiang Bo came to the fullerene engineering laboratory again, because Zheng Shouyi's place here is relatively large, so before the laboratory was built, He Tianqiang's research work was carried out here.

Jiang Bo came to the laboratory and found more than a dozen researchers talking excitedly around him.

Hearing it closer, Jiang Bo raised his eyebrows slightly.

"The results of the thirty-eighth experiment are in!"

"Compared with the last time, our specific energy has reached 720whkg, and after 2000 cycles of charging, the energy density is still above 700, and the capacity is still as high as 97.2%!"

"This is too strong, now the average energy density of ternary batteries on the market is still at the point of 200whkg, even if the energy density of Tesla batteries is only 300whkg, but our lithium-air battery has achieved 720whkg!"

"However, the standard set by Professor He is 1200whkg, and after 2,000 times of charging and discharging, the energy density of the battery cannot be lower than the original 97%......

"If we can really achieve the standard set by Professor He, then all lithium-ion batteries on the market will be eliminated!"

"What are you talking about, with the current energy density of 720whkg, they can't compare, right?"

"Professor He is so powerful, when I came here two months ago, I never thought that lithium air batteries could be successful. ”

"Who's to say it's not, I was thinking about messing around at the time, but I don't have that idea anymore. ”

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After listening for a while, the corners of Jiang Bo's mouth flashed with a smile, and he secretly said in his heart: "The energy density of lithium-air batteries has reached 720whkg, and the progress is not small." ”

Walking through the laboratory, Jiang Bo entered the inner room and found He Tianqiang, who was reading the materials.

"Mr. Jiang, why are you here? Please take a seat. When He Tianqiang saw Jiang Bo, he hurriedly beckoned him to sit down.

"I'll come over to see the research progress on your side, I just heard those researchers outside that the energy density of lithium-air batteries has reached 720whkg?" Jiang Bo said.

He Tianqiang said with a smile: "That's right, compared with the ternary batteries on the market, our energy-to-material ratio has been more than three times that of them, even if Tesla, which currently has the best power battery, our battery energy density is still more than twice as much as theirs."

However, I divide the lithium-air battery into three stages, and the standard of the first stage is 1200whkg, so although there is a breakthrough on my side, there is still some way to go before the real breakthrough. ”

"How long will this 1200whkg breakthrough take?"

"Today is March 5th, and if nothing else, it will be basically completed in early April. ”

"So fast?"

"That's right, thanks to the information provided by the company. He Tianqiang said with emotion: "The principle of lithium-air batteries is actually very clear, as long as the problems of lithium dendrites and targeted transportation of oxygen molecules are solved, the problems of battery explosion, service life and side reactions in the battery can basically be solved."

As for the enrichment of oxygen, the data also mentions a technology for rapid enrichment by creating the difference between internal and external oxygen concentration, which is very useful.

And the experimental research we are currently conducting is actually to optimize the components of the battery as much as possible and improve the energy density, which can easily find a breakthrough as long as it is carried out step by step. ”

Jiang Bo asked again: "In this way, the lithium-air battery technology has basically achieved a breakthrough here, right?"

He Tianqiang bowed: "That's right, the technology is no problem, but there is still a lot of room for improvement, you also know that the specific energy of lithium-air batteries is very high, theoretically it can reach 11kwhkg."

Although we can't reach the theoretical height, I think it is possible to achieve 2 kWhkg, or even 3 kWhkg, if we continue to study.

However, the information only gives the technology to realize the lithium-air battery, and does not give a solution to improve the specific energy of the lithium-air battery, so we need to study and improve it ourselves. ”

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