Chapter 104: The Second Generation of Unmanned Units
It can be said that when the eyes of the world are focused on the development of the planet itself, for its own interests, the East Galaxy Company is temporarily forgotten, and placed in a slightly marginal corner, the East Galaxy Company ushered in an excellent opportunity for stable development.
Lunar City continues to expand...
Interplanetary trade is still developing...
The combat department trains more staff ...
Build more sub-bases on the lunar surface...
Build a larger number of ships...
In order to provide unlimited spacecraft haulage services around the world...
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What does he do as an honorary advisor? The answer is rule simulation, which brings future technology to this real world in advance, so that East Galaxy can obtain the capital to determine the future.
At the request of Mr. Consultant, the research department was recruited after dividing a research team of more than 100 people.
"Our goal is the second generation of unmanned units!" Pointing to the video on the screen, which shows the basic concept of the next generation of unmanned units that Nana has made up according to Cao Chuan's ideas.
"Billions of computing speeds, which are brought about by the progress of chip technology. Last month, Intel released the latest chip on the 7nm process, which brings lower energy consumption and the possibility of accommodating more logic processing units. ”
"The bones and shells are replaced with more than 70% titanium mold composite materials, and anti-electromagnetic interference man-made materials, so that the overall solidity and durability of the unmanned unit increase by 100%."
"Equipped with a multi-purpose miniature sensor with a 30nm process, the unmanned unit can further enhance its perception of the outside world."
"At the level of artificial intelligence, it can additionally have modules such as life recognition and automatic pathfinding."
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The above is a series of second-generation unmanned units listed by Cao Chuanluo where they will be changed, the reason why there are so many is because unmanned units are a comprehensive science, and a technological breakthrough alone will lead to the benefits of some unmanned units at most, but it cannot drive the innovation of the entire unmanned unit field.
To accomplish such a goal, it is necessary to solve a difficult problem that can only be accomplished by bringing together many aspects of technological progress.
Since it is called the second generation, it means that the gap between it and the first generation will be unprecedentedly huge, and once it is mass-produced, it is enough to eliminate all the current unmanned units.
Therefore, the prospects for the second generation of unmanned units are incomparably wonderful.
Taking the common unmanned attack aircraft in the combat department as an example, relying on multi-purpose miniature sensors and a new generation of chips, it can easily handle complex situations such as mobile shooting, multi-target shooting, and ballistic evasion without the intervention of a mental model or an unmanned unit operator.
Even ordinary employees of the combat department can easily control more than 30 unmanned aircraft that can only be controlled by aces, and then go up to the mental model and the team leader of the unmanned unit operators will free up the time and energy spent on "micro-operation", and have a way to consider the problem at the tactical level, even the strategic level.
The most typical is that if the original pistol bullet was enough to threaten the unmanned attack aircraft, now at least the rifle bullet that hits accurately has a chance.
In other words, the defense of unmanned attack aircraft is stronger, not only that, but the new materials will also improve the performance of combat performance in harsh environments and the speed of natural attrition.
Therefore, even without upgrading the weapons and equipment alone, the combat effectiveness of the unmanned attack aircraft is greatly enhanced.
If it is placed at the civilian level, including mining vehicles, engineering vehicles, maintenance robots, cleaning robots, robotic arms in the workshop, automated assembly lines... It is even more difficult to enumerate the progress of the country.
The employees present seemed to be able to imagine what kind of transformation the moon city would get when the second generation of unmanned units became popular.
"But don't ignore the issue of capacity." Cao Chuan suddenly interjected a sentence, "Therefore, a core technology that will be supplemented by the second-generation unmanned unit is autologous replication technology." ”
"What is it like? By the time you hear that, you can probably imagine what it's all about. ”
"Humans are the epitome of autologous replication technology, where men and women can give birth to new human beings without limits."
"A slightly primitive example of autologous replication technology is insects, such as bees, queen bees, drones, and worker bees, which form a perfect social structure, with the queen being responsible for reproduction, the drones mating, and the worker bees providing food, building hives, and so on."
"Assuming that the second-generation unmanned unit has the ability to replicate itself, its structure will be the same..."
"A mother machine that can manufacture all unmanned units, and then cooperate with unmanned units that provide various functions, can develop without restrictions without human participation."
"The mother aircraft lives in a stable and safe environment, and its production and manufacturing work will not be interrupted; Mass-produced unmanned units are enough to cope with complex environments, even changing situations, and can be sacrificed at any time. ”
"Imagine putting such a structure on a remote planet, and in a few years, you can build a huge base for vulnerable human beings, and then mass migration will be incredibly simple, reliable, and cost-effective."
"We can not only use it for the development of remote planets such as Pluto, but even use it to go to Centaur Alpha as early as possible, otherwise according to the current speed of human space, even if it is on the Queen Nana, the time to travel through 4 light years is 1200 years, and the communication delay is also 4 years, and it is impossible to imagine what kind of crisis will be faced by humans in person."
"Above, the technology related to the second generation of unmanned units has been listed, aside from the self-replication will be solved by the board of directors, and the remaining problems are what you need to vigorously solve, from the improvement of technology, to the finalization and improvement of new products, and even to the special technologies related to the characteristics of specific unmanned units."