In mid-to-late May 2050, the world is a bit lively, first of all, the construction of the Swiss Space Mirror, a total of 25,000 square kilometers, so that the whole territory of Switzerland can live without night, and the rest of the places are some mountains and valleys and other places that are really not conducive to survival.

And when Switzerland cheered, the United States, Russia, Germany, and Brazil announced in almost no particular order that they had completed the test firing of their own electromagnetic railguns. The location of the test launch was the moon. That night, billions of people passed live broadcasts and so on to witness the power of the railgun once again. Four projectiles weighing one kilogram formed four craters with a diameter of 100 meters on the surface of the moon.

This moment marks that the world has once again entered a strange equilibrium, and the powerful China is finally no longer the only country with railguns.

In less than three days, Britain and Japan, India, Iran, France and other countries also announced the successful development of the railgun, but it will not be test-fired.

On the same day, the master company announced the start of the construction of the Space Mirror for Germany, which is expected to need to build 30,000 square kilometers, and even the master company that has now entered the outbreak period will still take two months. Transport capacity has kept up, but space operators are still understaffed.

Not to mention, with the construction of more and more space mirrors, the space shading plan must also be implemented, otherwise it will cause an imbalance in the energy of the earth's sunlight, and the consequences will be somewhat severe. First of all, after the energy is enriched, the number of storms will increase.

However, now all this information can not be paid attention to by the senior management of the master company, because the long-awaited research and development task of the master company has finally seen the light of day.

With the accumulation of exploration, the intelligent research has finally been completed! However, to be exact, it is half done. There is still a long way to go in the study of true intelligence, but now the research team has succeeded in researching a semi-intelligent one: the ability to process simple logic.

Intelligent research is not an easy and simple matter, with the addition of Fang Qingshan and Liu Yanxia, Li Changxing and Huang Feifei, plus Zhang Jingyuan opening a small stove from time to time, it is still making bumpy progress; And Xiang Yundong, the direct main person in charge here, and the core members of the master's room, those old scholars and scientists who were already forty or fifty years old at the beginning, finally succeeded after ten years of forgetting to sleep and eat.

"Teacher, you've worked hard." Zhang Jingyuan looked at Xiang Yundong, a man in his sixties, even if Zhang Jingyuan opened a small stove, he was too old after all; And over the years, the research has consumed too much energy, and the hair has all turned gray.

The progress of science, in addition to those occasional flashes of genius ideas, is more about the silent dedication of a large number of scientists, so that those genius ideas are optimized, perfected, sublimated a little bit, and even enriched with the former science fiction hypothesis a little bit. For this reason, without others knowing, scientists are silently dedicating and exploring; Sometimes you even have to endure those incomprehensible glances and unpleasant words.

When ordinary people enjoy technology, they often don't take into account the hard work of those scientists day and night. Sometimes, in order to keep improving, it is even necessary to reinvent the previous research.

And now Professor Xiang Yundong has already devoted almost all his energy to the intelligent research project at hand.

Originally, Xiang Yundong was just an expert and professor in the study of "energy", but with the birth of Zhang Jingyuan's chipset that uses magnetic field calculations, Xiang Yundong led the expert team of the original master to start researching new intelligence. It uses ten-dimensional decimal technology, uses new magnetic field technology and principles, and imitates the magnetic field and electric field activities and changes in the human thinking process.

All of these are emerging fields, and they are all extremely subtle fields, which require patient and repeated research and verification.

"Haha, no hard work, no hard work, as a scientific research worker, I can successfully research artificial intelligence in my lifetime, and I am satisfied in this life." Xiang Yundong is exceptionally cheerful, for scientific research workers, solving a world problem and being ahead of the whole world may be the greatest honor. Even if some technologies cannot be disclosed, you can only be the uncrowned king.

Following Xiang Yundong, Zhang Jingyuan came to the interior of the real yàn room, and was attracted by a two-meter-high simulator at first glance.

This machine has no skin yet, only a metal shelf that flashes with a ghostly light, the structure of the whole body is almost similar to that of a human being, but it is extraordinarily thick, and the waist is not only a lone spine, but some structures similar to plate armor, the position of the chest is placed with Dali's battery and control system, and the brain is placed with a chipset made of 36 diamond chips, you can see the light blue light flashing, this machine is actually working.

The surrounding scientific research workers are conducting tests, and Wang Qingwei, who is in charge of the mechanical mechanism, is also present.

"Boss, we did it!" Seeing Zhang Jingyuan, Wang Qingwei happily jumped three feet high, "We have successfully researched the spherical bearing drive, successfully researched the intelligent core, and successfully researched."

The torque of the shutdown bearing drive machine can reach 1000 kg of torque with the help of superconducting wire and 6000 volt voltage (unscientific representation, only for reference); 1000 kilograms, you can use it to drive a car! ”

"Oh, I'll see." Zhang Jingyuan came to be interested. Previously, there were two directions in which the intelligent machine was stuck in the research of the master company, one was intelligent programming, and the other was the shutdown bearing drive machine.

The traditional machine action is to generate the driving force through the motor, and then drive the joint action through the belt, gear, hydropneumatic transmission, connecting rod, etc.

However, such a machine transmission system cannot meet the high-end indicators of the master company. The machine of the master company is not simply a machine person, and it will progress to the legendary mecha in the future. And the most important thing about this is: drive! Traditional drives are not only inefficient, but more importantly unresponsive – something that is absolutely fatal in the military.

The machines that have been available in modern times are either small and have a very fast response, but they are not strong enough and have poor dynamic stability; Either it's large, and the reaction is slow. Because of the above reasons, the dream of various countries to install aircraft and armed people has not been realized.

The drive system required by the master company should be: simple, efficient, reliable, delicate, high torque, convenient and maintenance and replacement, etc. Through these things, it is necessary to allow people to move freely like humans, to be able to resist shocks, and to react more flexibly than humans.

Obviously, the traditional machine machine, servo drive, etc., can no longer meet the needs of master companies. Therefore, the machine technology of the master company has actually found another way, proposed and established a new machine technology. From the control system software to the power system and transmission, it is completely different. Perhaps, the only thing that is the same as the traditional machine is that it still needs electricity.

At the moment, the machine qì people are testing, and the staff only gave it an order, go to the front, and leave the rest alone. The rest is up to your own judgment. In particular, this machine uses more than 78 spherical bearings to drive the machine, which consumes up to 2,000 kWh of electricity per hour. In particular, joints need to burst out of powerful power when they start and stop and turn in an instant.

Here Wang Qingwei proudly introduces his invention, the spherical bearing drive uses the cross roller technology as a jacket, and inside is a corresponding hemispherical high-strength magnet, with a connecting rod sticking out at one end. The jacket with the bearing is full of densely packed small coils that fill the gaps between the bearings. A fist-sized spherical bearing drive has tens of thousands of such small coils. These coils convert the current into a powerful magnetic field, which reacts with the hemispherical high-strength magnets in the wrap to produce a motor-like driving effect.

Just such a spherical bearing drive machine has 60,000 parts, and the maximum continuous output torque can reach 1,000 kilograms, which is enough to drive the current machine. In addition, in order to meet the extremely fast movement of the machine, this drive machine also has a characteristic, that is, it can burst out of torque of up to 10,000 catties in an instant, but in order not to burn the drive machine, it can only be maintained for 0.3 seconds, and then it takes about a minute of cooling time to cool down the drive machine.

"Oh oh......" At this time, there was a violent cheer from the side.

Zhang Jingyuan turned his head to look at it, and he was also surprised. It turned out that when the machine was tested, it was deliberately not fully charged, but now the machine is actually pulling out the plug by himself to charge himself! On top of that, there are more than a dozen outlets on site, and only one has electricity, which needs to be judged. And now the machine qì people actually know to try one by one, until they find the one with electricity.

"Qingwei, this is already a smart machine, why does the teacher say that it can only be regarded as semi-intelligent?" Zhang Jingyuan was puzzled.

"Haha, I'll answer," Li Changxing's mentor Wang Yangang happened to hear Zhang Jingyuan's words, this is a professor who used to be in charge of electronics, "The reason why it is called semi-intelligent is because of the following points:

First, once the power is lost, the system will be restarted, and although the data will accumulate, the system itself will already be in a different state.

Second, the core of the present is only a simple conceptual mode of thinking, which is lower than the abstract thinking of human beings; It's more of an instinctive upgrade.

Third, although it has the ability to learn, it does not have the human thinking of drawing inferences from one another, and can only be distinguished simply through a large number of calculations. It's still a computationally based intelligence; And not the kind of wisdom that humans have.

Because of these three points, it is said to be semi-intelligent. Of course, the current situation is already very good, and in order to prevent the rebellion of the people, we can only study semi-intelligence, not real intelligence, which is irresponsible to human beings. In particular, semi-intelligence was already enough for the needs of the Manchu humans. Enough for at least the foreseeable hundred years.

The machine does not need to be too smart, real thinking, there should be humans to make decisions. At least, that's what I think in the current situation. To study true intelligence is a thankless effort. ”

"Thank you, teacher, this concern is very correct. Any intelligent being will have the idea of pursuing freedom. Therefore, real intelligence really can't be studied. ”

"Whoa, whoa, whoa......" The loud applause resounded in this research room, and it turned out that the machine had really advanced to the end by itself. In the research room, the passage with tables and chairs is very complicated, and all the other sensing components of the current machine are not installed except for the eyes, and even other software is not installed except for the basic software, but the machine has completed this movement spontaneously; On top of that, the core of the examination found that the machine qì people actually completed a simple programming on their own, how to climb over the obstacles.

"It's against the sky!" Xiang Yundong smiled and commented.

The research was unprecedentedly successful, and at the celebration party, Zhang Jingyuan even compared it to a technology that surpassed the space shuttle. Next, the machine laboratory will be divided into two parts: the industrial machinery part and the long-awaited mecha technology of the master company!

These two technologies are equally important, industrial machinery is the foundation, and it is foreseeable that the future of space will inevitably be the world of automated industrial machinery, human living conditions in space are too harsh, the cost is too high; In addition, the mecha is the armed force, which is a guarantee of safety. As for how to split it, of course Zhang Jingyuan doesn't have to worry about it, Fang Qingshan, Xiang Yundong and the others who are in charge of this place just decide.

However, the R&D progress of machine and intelligence will inevitably promote the master company to take off again.