Chapter 28: Mechanical Prosthetic Testing
The next morning, Gu Cheng came to Tianqing Industrial Plant again.
"Boss, all the sample module parts have been prepared according to your requirements." The head of the production department reported.
"Time is pressing, get it all quickly." Gu Cheng was in high spirits for a while, and after finishing it, he went to the hospital in the afternoon to look for volunteers.
After a while, several staff members brought out all the parts they had made, and Gu Cheng led the big guys to start assembling them directly.
Times are evolving, technology is advancing, and the distance between prosthetics (prosthetics) and real limbs is shrinking.
Thanks to the continuous advancement of batteries, brain control devices and artificial intelligence, coupled with Gu Cheng's own black technology, mechanical prosthetics can complete all maneuvers from twisting, pointing, grabbing and weightlifting, and even actions that cannot be done by human limbs, such as 360-degree steering.
This is not only good news for amputees, but even for things similar to bomb disposal, it will definitely be safer and more convenient to use a robotic arm, which can save the lives of many bomb disposal fighters.
At this moment, Gu Cheng and several assistant technical workers are assembling a mechanical prosthetic arm, which takes a lot of effort to assemble, because to do twisting, pointing, grabbing and other actions means complex mechanical structure, with more than 600 parts, which is extremely complex, which is very technical in itself, and even then it is not the core technology of this prosthetic.
The real core technology is soft control and the ability to process weak neural signals, to put it bluntly, it is the processing and analysis, which is the most difficult, and it is also the place to ensure the uniqueness of Tianqing Technology's products.
Without the blessing of this technology, even if it is sophisticated, it is dead.
The prosthetic sample being assembled can realize information interaction and functional integration between the nervous system and the external device (prosthesis) by establishing a direct connection pathway between the human brain nerve and sensory cortex and the external device with high biocompatibility.
To put it simply, it is to control the machine with the mind, the idea is a bit metaphysical, and the scientific description is actually by directly extracting the brain nerve signal and processing it, so as to obtain the use of accurate brain intentions and implement the intentions, the external embodiment is the control device, the user wants to raise his hand, grab, point, and he can execute in perfect synchronization according to human ideas.
The mechanical prosthetic sample technology is non-invasive, that is, the neural network signals are collected through peripherals.
Intrusive perception, which involves implanting a chip in the brain.
In terms of technology, Gu Cheng can do it, because he has epoch-making advanced black technology in his head, but it is impossible to achieve it through the existing resources and financial resources of Tianqing Technology, even if the product is made and launched into the market, it is difficult.
After all, whether consumers can accept it or not, implanting chips into their brains, I am afraid that the vast majority of people will not agree, and they will panic whether these high-tech companies will control people in the future and many other questions.
Although implanted chips can obtain richer and more accurate neural signals, non-invasive does not have this advantage, non-invasive neural signals are extremely weak, how to accurately understand the intention of the party through such limited information and soft control analysis and cooperate with him, the current major technology companies can not do.
And this is the advantage of Tianqing Technology, Gu Cheng can process it with the acquisition and its limited signal and can understand the intention of the person concerned and cooperate with him, so that he can also swing the prosthetic limb like an arm.
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Time passed, and more than an hour passed, and the first mechanical prosthetic arm was finally assembled by hand, which was a mechanical prosthetic arm below the elbow.
Several technicians in charge of assisting were also staring intently at the metal mechanical prosthesis, with a bionic core bone in the middle, some power cords on the surface, circuit boards, chip templates, sensors, and some precision gears and miniaturized sensor shafts, etc., and a solid metal round bar with 22 straws of varying thickness and length but the shortest one was more than 26 centimeters.
The mechanical palm is also a completely bionic palm, with five fingers with complete motorized joints, wrist joints, and so on.
The whole mechanical prosthetic is full of sci-fi metallic flavor, but this mechanical prosthetic is not yet a finished product, because it also needs to be attached with a layer of bionic skin and bionic muscle fibers mainly made of silicone material.
Gu Cheng kept instructing the employees who assisted him to fix the metal mechanical prosthetic leg on an arm model and graft it, and then extend the internal wiring length, Gu Cheng immediately took off his T-shirt shirt and was shirtless.
"Boss, how do you get fit with this body?" A post-90s technical employee who assisted subconsciously said, envy.
"I won't tell you!" Gu Chengpi made everyone laugh for a while, but to be reasonable, everyone is still a little envious and jealous, even if it is the boss, it doesn't matter if it's so young, it's okay if it's so young, it's okay if it's so handsome, it's okay, the figure is still so good, God is really too favoritic.
After the hiccup, the test continued, and the post-90s technical employee quickly retrieved a device called a "neural sensing sleeve", much like the rubber ring worn by an NBA player on his wrist.
But instead of wearing it on the wrist, the device is located on the biceps brachii muscle above the elbow, and it has a grid-like structure filled with microsensors that collect nerve signals.
This thing is not developed by Tianqing Technology, but the imported materials, which are only slightly improved by themselves, belong to the application parts of BCI technology.
The wiring connects to the device, and this "neural sensor sleeve" is contractile, and it works by applying pressure when you wear it, and the signal alerts the brain to the sensory cortex.
But this is not enough, it also needs reinforcement assistance such as conductive adhesives.
An employee holds a syringe device, injects conductive glue into the electrode, and then puts the device on Gu Cheng's biceps muscle, which is connected to a mechanical prosthetic arm next to it.
After a while, a staff member took a 19,000 milliampere rectangular bar battery and inserted it into it with a groove 5 centimeters behind the prosthetic wrist.
At the same time, the other two technical engineers opened the thin metal protection plate on the outer layer of the metal mechanical prosthesis, soldered several thin lines on the internal integrated circuit board with a soldering iron, added a terminal interface, and then the micro U disk access, all the data will be collected and then stored in the U disk, this is the sample, which needs to be collected and analyzed and then optimized and improved.
It took about five or six minutes before and after.
"Boss, everything is OK!!"
Gu Cheng saw that the staff made a gesture that everything was ready, and everyone was staring.
At this moment, Gu Cheng's hand and the mechanical prosthetic limb were more than twenty centimeters apart from each other, and after a while, he tried to turn his wrist, swing his fingers flexibly, and clenched his fist to make rock, scissors, paper and other gestures.
At the same time, the next performance of the mechanical prosthetic next to it made every witness excited.
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