Chapter 12 The Era of Great Construction

This is a veritable era of great construction. Xiao Yu's small spaceship will become a fire that will bring the light of science and technology to the corners of the solar system, and eventually illuminate the entire planet.

Six robots got busy.

Xiao Yu has a clear jihua, to speed up the mining progress, the number of robots is a big limitation. Therefore, the priority is not to build a base, but to build robots.

In order to adapt to the extremely low temperature of minus 150 degrees Celsius on Titan, as well as the special terrain and only about one-sixth of the gravity on Earth, Xiao Yu redesigned the new robot drawings, and after collecting enough raw materials with ore smelting equipment, Xiao Yu built the first Titan-specific mining and ore training integrated robot.

To smelt iron ore into steel, it takes a lot of coal. As we all know, coal is the fossil of trees from ancient times on the earth, formed through a special environment. Xiao Yu didn't think he could find coal on Titan.

However, Xiao Yu took this situation into account before setting off from the earth, so he spent three months to develop a new set of steelmaking jishu, which only needs enough fuel, as well as some special separation and reduction, etc., to refine enough excellent steel, even better than the special steel on the earth.

This robot is a robot that has applied the new steelmaking jishu. Xiao Yu named this robot Saturn I. The Saturn 1 robot does not look like a traditional humanoid robot, but a metal platform supported by four wheels, and several manipulators and detection equipment are installed on one side of the metal stage, which looks like a strange-looking duck.

However, although the appearance is a little ugly, in a special terrain like Titan, the efficiency is several times higher than that of the original old model robot.

Most of the ground on Titan is flat, as long as it is slightly hardened, saving Xiao Yu the time to build a road. Moreover, such a ground is just suitable for the Saturn I robot to walk.

After Shiyan's great success, Xiao Yu seized the time to build hundreds of such robots, and then according to different divisions of labor, he built some Saturn II robots, and then, with the needs of the work, five different models of robots of three to seven types were developed, and the first six robots have been transferred into the spaceship by Xiao Yu and served as various operations inside the spacecraft.

In this way, a total of seven models of robots are busy on the mine.

These robots built by Xiao Yu are not intelligent robots in the real sense, in fact, with Xiao Yu's current technology, they are far from being able to build practical intelligent robots, let alone artificial intelligence.

Xiao Yu did not install a central computer in the body of these robots at all, but only installed a transmitting device and a receiving device, as well as various functional modules, all the data collection is completed by the detector installed on the robot, and then the signal is sent to the spacecraft through the transmitting device, which is processed by Xiao Yu, and after processing, the next operation instruction is sent back to the robot, which is realized by the robot through the functional module.

With Xiao Yu's incomparably powerful computing power now, let alone operating hundreds of robots at the same time, even if he controls tens of thousands at the same time, it is not a problem. The advantage of this is that almost every robot can share Xiao Yu's wisdom, and the degree of cooperation between each individual has reached the point of seamless cooperation.

This is a real finger at the finger, Xiao Yu commands these hundreds of robots as if he were commanding his own arm, and it is extremely accurate, and there is absolutely no mistake.

It is often seen that a Saturn VI robot has collected a pile of hematite ore from the ground through screening, and then poured it towards the ground, and the pile of iron ore is poured out of the container, but before it touches the ground, a Saturn Type 1 robot just walks over and catches this pile of hematite ore with its own body, and no ore is spilled on the ground.

That's where the power and accuracy of computing power comes in. Hundreds of robots are working hard in the mines, but there is not the slightest mistake.

It took Xiao Yu a month to build these hundreds of robots. It also includes a few days of pause due to rain. You know, rain is frequent.

At first, Xiao Yu had the patience to wait for the stagnant water to slowly evaporate, but later Xiao Yu found that this was a waste of time. Anyway, there is infinite methane replenishment on Titan, and the source of oxygen is not a problem, Xiao Yu simply developed a model of robot, and after every rain, he will take a huge flamethrower and shoot out flames up to thousands of degrees Celsius, which will make a large puddle of liquid methane evaporate into gas almost instantly.

In this month, Xiao Yu has built six robot parts production lines and an assembly workshop, as long as the raw materials are sufficient, these production lines can be fully activated, and almost 20 robots can be produced in a day. In addition, if the parts production line is slightly modified, it is possible to produce more models and more diverse robots.

The number of robots was enough, and Xiao Yu began the next step of construction.

The content of this construction is to build a steelmaking blast furnace.

The blast furnace that Xiao Yu wants to build is different from the blast furnace on the earth. Blast furnaces on top of the earth require a lot of coke, and it is clear that there is no coke on Titan. And Xiao Yu's blast furnace is combined with the latest steelmaking jishu.

Xiao Yu's hard drive contains a full set of materials for building a blast furnace, and it has been modified, so that it does not need coal, as long as there is enough energy to make steel.

In order to build a steelmaking blast furnace, Xiao Yu even built a crane robot. Crane robots are big guys, no bigger than small robots like Saturn 1 to 7. In order to build this big guy, Xiao Yu spent five days, consuming thousands of tons of high-quality steel and more than half a month.

After building the foundation and laying various pipes, such as the inlet, slag outlet, air inlet, etc., Xiao Yu began the construction of the blast furnace.

It wasn't until construction began that Xiao Yu discovered a problem, at least in the area that Xiao Yu had already discovered, it was difficult to find suitable insulation materials. After thinking about it for a long time, Xiao Yu gritted his teeth, simply discarded the thermal insulation layer, and went directly to a set of air-cooling system.

You must know that the wind on Titan is more than minus 150 degrees, and the air on Titan is very dense, even denser than on Earth. Xiao Yu tested it and found that this air-cooling system could fully meet the requirements, and he couldn't help but be very happy.

A piece of grinding haode steel plate is lifted by the crane robot and placed in the approximate position, and then another mechanical arm lifts a small robot to push the steel plate to the correct position, after the welding is completed, the next piece is started, and so on.

Because the steelmaking furnace has not yet been built, Xiao Yu's current steel output is entirely dependent on a few special small machines brought from the earth. Although after Xiao Yu's transformation, these machines can make steel without coal, but the output is difficult to say. In the face of increasing demand for steel, Xiao Yu's output is really a little pitiful.

During this period of time, Xiao Yu can be regarded as re-experiencing the feeling of waiting for the rice to be put in the pot. The huge demand for steel is a big pot of boiling water, as long as you put rice in it, you can quickly make a pot of fragrant rice soup. However, Xiao Yu's steel output is like an underproductive rice field, and he is only willing to produce rice one by one, which makes people anxious.

It took a month of busy work for the steelmaking blast furnace to be built. Looking at the huge furnace standing on the flat earth of Titan, a height of 60 meters, Xiao Yu sighed.

This steelmaking blast furnace combines the functions of ironmaking and steelmaking. After the iron ore is entered, it is first reduced to pig iron, and then the pig iron enters another set of processes, and after various smelting, it will be turned into steel.

As for its output, Xiao Yu made an estimate that if ordinary steel is produced, if the raw materials are sufficient, it can reach a daily output of 1,000 tons. If the production of the best quality steel that Xiao Yu can do, it can only reach the level of ten tons per day.

However, to build the base frame, it is necessary to use a lot of ordinary steel, at most some chromium-nickel alloy steel on the outside of the base, to resist the extremely cold temperatures on Titan.

The construction of the steelmaking blast furnace was completed, and it was at this time that the construction of the base could be regarded as really begin.

Xiao Yu didn't plan to build the base here in the iron mine, but chose a place about five thousand meters away from here. Compared to here, the terrain and geology are more suitable for building a large base.

Xiao Yu first commanded the fire-breathing robot to spray fire all the entire place within a radius of about 1,000 meters, removing all the evaporable matter, and then commanded the engineering robot to dig countless trenches that came and went vertically and horizontally, poured the foundation, and began to command other robots to produce large steel plates, and then transport them over and start welding work.

That's right, Xiao Yu is planning to build a base made entirely of steel. Because there are no raw materials for traditional building materials such as cement and masonry on Titan, there is a lot of steel.

With the completion of the No. 1 steelmaking blast furnace, Xiao Yu's steel production capacity has been greatly strengthened, and even started construction on three sides, while the robot production line is running at full capacity, the No. 2 steelmaking blast furnace is being built on one side, and the base is being built on the other.

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