Tackling key problems is destined to be long, fortunately, the external environment has left them a lot of time, except for the autologous replication technology, the remaining technologies are either breakthroughs, or there are traces to follow, in fact, there is not so ethereal, all have the opportunity to solve in a short time.

According to Cao Chuan's calculations, in three months at most, they will complete the integration of a series of technologies and make a batch of prototypes. Don't know how it's going on your end? At least according to the progress of the simulation according to the rules, he found that it took a lot of time to complete it thoroughly.

"Have you been in the past 10 days? This is the longest rule simulation to date. Cao Chuan said to himself, there are several drawings drawn in front of him, all of which are conceptual products, which can give him a certain idea, but there is still a distance to achieve his expectations.

In fact, his remarks that day still had reservations, what to make a mother machine to produce all unmanned units, if there really is, obviously, the scalability of the mother machine will be restricted, in case there is a problem, it is more likely to completely overturn the original design.

Yes, extensibility may be the only flaw in the design idea of the mother machine, as if human beings can only give birth to human beings forever, and it is impossible to give birth to anything else, which is considered a need for protection, and cannot be completely said to be wrong, but under the condition that the second generation of unmanned units has not yet matured, it is undoubtedly self-defeating to lock yourself in this way.

So what he really wants is to use autologous replication technology, or autologous replication concept, to create a high-precision joint production workshop, including production equipment with multiple functions, independent of each other, while maintaining the production efficiency of unmanned units, but also to cope with changes and provide adjustable space.

As for the autologous replication of the combined production workshop, it is obviously not needed for the time being, just like the queen bee in the bee colony, the queen bee is enough to exist long enough, why not let humans produce the combined production workshop themselves?

In the factory with an area of nearly 1,000 square meters, a large number of equipment is placed, and its functions involve sensor manufacturing, resource smelting, wafer manufacturing, chip turbidity, ammunition manufacturing, engine manufacturing, assembly robotic arms, and robots, etc.

Cao Chuan put these things here because he believes that by automating and integrating these devices, he will achieve his goals.

It is better to do automation, the reason why the production equipment still needs human participation, most of it is caused by the instability of the external environment, if there is a way to improve the process level of the equipment, including vacuum and dust-free, the use of more durable and durable production materials, a higher level of technology can solve the problem.

After the simulation of the rules, Cao Chuan had a few new equipment drawings in his mind, and he was convinced that these production equipment could be kept in production for several months, or even several years in a row.

A machine that never breaks will not need human involvement to achieve the goal of automation.

Then, he considered the integration of equipment, in order to improve efficiency, save space, and reduce costs, because there are reasons to take into account scalability, and this process suddenly becomes difficult to do.

This is also the process of human industrialization, there has never been a universal machine that manufactures everything, many production equipment is divided and combined, because the benefits of sharing can maintain a high enough scalability, the benefits of combining can improve efficiency, save space, reduce costs, fortunately to maintain a complete unmanned unit production system, what production equipment can be separated in the process, what production equipment can be integrated, are arbitrary according to actual needs.

Take a few samples of the second-generation unmanned unit given by the research department, Cao Chuan is not without methodology for rule simulation, according to the field, the division of the production process is the most simple and direct, but it can be determined specifically by comparing it with the actual unmanned unit.

However, there is also a new problem here, even if it is a realistic unmanned unit, if it is not typical, it is also meaningless, because once the design of the unmanned unit changes, the joint production workshop must also be changed.

Things come back to how to get a mature second-generation unmanned unit, but the second-generation unmanned unit must also take into account the design of the joint production workshop, what if the unmanned unit joint production workshop is completely impossible to build?

You have to know the design of the joint production workshop before you can design the second generation of unmanned units.

This contradictory relationship of mutual preconditions is solved through continuous iteration in the field of life, and now, Cao Chuan has completed it through optimization again and again.

In any case, first according to the current existing unmanned unit drawings, and then design the corresponding joint production workshop drawings, anyway, there is no mass production, never worry about the cost.

With the guidance of such a set of ideas, the subsequent rule simulation is much smoother, and it is basically a small and miscellaneous project, which lasts for a few minutes or hours each time, and it takes up a lot of his time cumulatively.

"It is very necessary to integrate the equipment for melting, grinding, screening, catalysis, processing and shaping in the material production stage. Combined, it will solve the processing problem of most materials, which can be regarded as a breakthrough, not only for the manufacture of unmanned units, but also for the production of spaceships, buildings, weapons and equipment with a little modification. ”

"The chip manufacturing process can also be integrated, such as Intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm and other companies, joint chip manufacturing solutions are also quite mature, if the product is mature, 10 years, 20 years will not be eliminated, why not integrate together?"

"Sensor manufacturing..."

"Artificial intelligence implants..."

In this way, it didn't take long for the huge factory to become much more empty, and dozens of equipment were continuously integrated, and finally became several multi-functional production equipment with more obvious functional distinctions.

The preliminary joint production workshop has been made, with a scale of about 500 square meters, with the ability to produce 21 kinds of unmanned units, can collect more than 100 kinds of conventional minerals, and also supports a certain degree of software and hardware upgrades, and has been operating stably for more than 100 years in an environment of minus 100 degrees Celsius to plus 100 degrees Celsius, with a production capacity of roughly 500 unmanned attack aircraft per month.

In addition to the joint production workshop, as a collocation, there are also the initial 5 second-generation engineering vehicles and 5 second-generation mining, a set of combinations can be regarded as the initial achievement of the requirements of self-replication.

"Like playing a real-time strategy game, like Red Alert, StarCraft?" Cao Chuan thought to himself, and then corroborated with the samples made by the research team, and he quickly found a lot of new problems, and then optimized.

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