After a bloody fight, Duke had to stay in seclusion and temporarily avoid the opponent's possible lore action, which made Duke understand that the research on pick-up robots had to be accelerated.

Fortunately, there is enough knowledge and technology accumulation in this area, whether it is research such as drive control, sensor data fusion, image processing, pattern recognition, neural networks, etc., or related various acousto-optic instruments, from the drone project and the MIT robot project, Duke has gained a lot of knowledge reserves.

Now, Duke just needs to find a reasonable reason to start doing it. At this time, Duke now has the advantage of huge resources, and after thinking about it for a few days, he took this opportunity to start an ambitious plan to develop autonomous intelligent robots.

Duke's goal is to develop a robot with a certain degree of autonomous mobility, which can accept instructions and complete them in complex environments, largely replacing human work in dangerous environments. For example, it is necessary to carry out seabed exploration or inspection and maintenance of underwater facilities, and to carry out dangerous battlefield ground reconnaissance and mine clearance......

If this can be done, in the future, Duke can even build combat robots that can take on most combat missions, which is certainly an extremely exciting goal for the military.

If someone else proposes to do this project, they don't know how much argumentation and explanation they need to do if they want to get the project approved, and they are more likely to be ridiculed for being self-conscious and ambitious.

But for Duke, these are just a gesture, he has authority and power, and he also holds a huge amount of research and development funds, which allows him to quickly mobilize relevant resources to help tackle key problems, when the robot project is established, and even the group of experts who studied the lunar rover with Duke earlier received the news, and also expressed great interest in the Duke project, hoping to work together to tackle key problems.

Because as you know, even if all the functions envisioned by Duke cannot be realized, even if only half of the project is realized, it is a huge breakthrough for the domestic intelligent robot field, and there will be a lot of room for application in both military and civilian applications. Many of the breakthroughs in robotics will greatly promote projects such as lunar rover.

Now who doesn't know, following Dr. Duke is almost a guarantee of success, the early operating system, the later nuclear power research, and then the military system in terms of drones and avionics software, wherever Duke appears is simply invincible. What's more, Dr. Duke has always been very willing to invest in research expenses, and everyone will not be troubled by the shortage of R&D funds.

With this kind of impressive performance and reputation, not to mention the domestic science and technology community, even scientists in some foreign disciplines are eager to find Duke to study something together, and now Duke has become a well-known golden sign in the science and technology community.

With such appeal, the members of the Duke Research Robotics Project started from scratch and it took less than a month to build a research team composed of hundreds of elite researchers from different disciplines in China.

Leading such an elite research team, Duke is not idle, he will be MIT robots and lunar rover, drone project after some of the results of the collation, together with the team quickly came up with an autonomous intelligent robot prototype, this new robot uses 4 G2 cores to form a control brain, with powerful computing power, transplanted from the drone image recognition technology, so that he can easily have the original difficult to achieve recognition path, judgment of obstacles and other important functions such as automatic walking.

Of course, there are still many problems with this prototype robot, such as the power supply that can support long-term work, Duke, who is struggling to find a long-lasting power source for work, and misses the thermonuclear reaction energy supply method of Billem, which can provide a long working time with very little nuclear fuel.

It is a pity that this technology is not currently possible on Earth.

Even with the special catalytic principle of the Lotus reactor generation, what Duke can achieve now is only the S1 Lotus reactor-sized power source, although the volume is much smaller than that of ordinary nuclear reactors, but the carrier still needs to be a ship of several thousand tons to be suitable. No matter how small it is, it will not be easy to achieve, and Duke cannot expect another breakthrough in nuclear fission technology in the short term.

As for the nuclear reaction battery made by the principle of radioactive decay, although it has been used for a long time, the power is too small, and the Mars rover that Yankees spent $2.5 billion to research on is only a little more than 100 watts, which is not even enough to effectively drive the four G2 cores on Duke's intelligent robot.

And this electromagnetic radiation is very strong, it is difficult to achieve effective shielding, it doesn't matter if it is used on a desolate planet like Mars, where you can't even find a drop of water, but Duke's robot is mainly used on Earth, and there are many opportunities to contact people, so it is not very suitable to use this kind of power.

Therefore, there are still many places that Duke needs to be studied by experts in this power selection, and the high-energy battery pack that is temporarily used can not be supported for a long time, which cannot meet Duke's goals, and if it cannot make a technological breakthrough in the short term, it can only be used as a verification power.

If it is only used on land, the power can also fall on the internal combustion engine to generate electricity, in this regard, Dongfang Power has more accumulation, can undertake the study of this special internal combustion engine task, but the use of internal combustion engine, in terms of volume and noise control is not easy, obviously, this power is also very unreliable in the robot used for reconnaissance.

Underwater use is even more unreliable, so Duke has set his sights on fuel cells, which have just made some progress, and now fuel cell technology is relatively mature, with many successful applications, from powering laptops to powering cars, and even Boeing can be used to drive small airplanes.

It's just that most of these technologies are at the laboratory level, which is not mature and low-cost enough.

The domestic accumulation in this area is not much, and the gap between it and the current level of the world is still a bit big, but Duke's intuition is that this thing is more reliable than the previous nuclear reaction batteries or high-energy batteries.

As long as Duke identifies the direction, he will naturally not hesitate to invest and implement it resolutely, but this time there are relatively few relevant talents that can be provided in China, and Duke has not been able to respond to every call, so he has to dig up such experts internationally with high salaries. For international cooperative research, this project is not suitable for the military industry, and Duke simply placed this project under the research team of Dongfang Qiyang Automobile.

Duke's robot plan has since been laid out, and 2018 has passed in a flash.