Chen Yue has always believed that among all the equipment he has, in addition to Xiaobai, the most important equipment is the 3D printer.

Designed to be used in an alien environment, this 3D printer can make almost any mechanical device with the right materials and the right manufacturing drawings.

Ideally, it can even print a tractor on its own.

Of course, on Europa, Chen Yue doesn't need a tractor. However, it is completely trivial to use it to print some parts with high precision, more complexity, and cannot be manufactured by intelligent machine tools.

As a result, robot mining and smelting, intelligent machine tools processing parts with low requirements, 3D printers printing high-precision parts, and parts that cannot be manufactured by themselves use inventory, and Chen Yue's expansion plan has been successfully implemented.

After three failures and three robots, the fourth robot finally started without any problems.

It was also made by Chen Yue in the style of four wheels and four robotic arms to expand its functions as much as possible. It is equipped with a lithium battery, which can work for about 14 hours under ideal loads.

Based on 14 hours of work and 10 hours of charging every day, this robot, which was named "Muyi" by Chen Yue, has an expected total life of about 3 months.

In other words, Chen Yue can guarantee that they can work normally for 3 months. After 3 months, the probability of various failures will be greatly increased, so that it will have to be completely scrapped and recycled.

The main reason for this is that the quality of the parts is not as good as those carried from the Martian base and the Earth.

At this stage, the quality of the parts made by Chen Yue himself is still a bit poor.

But it doesn't matter, just improve slowly.

It took Chen Yue two months to expand the number of Mu-5 robots to 100. As a result, the total strength under Chen Yue's command at this moment skyrocketed to 110 robots.

These 110 robots are active within a radius of about 20 kilometers with the Glowing spacecraft as the core, and they are busy shuttling around it all day long.

Some robots are dedicated to digging and dividing ore, some are responsible for transporting, some are responsible for refining, and some are responsible for processing......

Coordination between each other, well-organized, not chaotic at all.

Each of these robots is directly under the control of Chen Yue. Compared to the huge computing power that Chen Yue has, controlling more than a hundred robots at the same time is not a matter at all, and it is not effortless at all.

The computing power required to calculate a difficult math problem is much more than that.

It is precisely because all the robots are directly controlled by themselves that they can cooperate with each other so tacitly.

Often the transport robot has just come to the mine, and the mining robot has just prepared the ore to be transported this time, and it has been lifted up, and it is directly put on the transport robot, and the transport robot will turn around and leave, without delaying for a second.

Often the smelting robot has just finished refining the last batch of ore, sending it to the next process for processing, and when it comes to the arrival of new ore, there happens to be a transportation robot to arrive, and the ore that meets the requirements will be handed over to it, and the same will not be delayed for a second.

In this case, more than 100 robots are busy, the error rate is almost zero, and the loss rate is also minimized.

Now that I'm busy, Ganymede is finally a little lively.

However, after Chen Yue built a hundred wooden five-type robots, he stopped continuing to expand the army.

If you want to continue to build, of course you can still build. There are still some parts left in the spaceship, and there are about a thousand more that can be rebuilt.

But Chen Yue realized that it was too slow to go on like this.

Strictly speaking, each of these robots made by Chen Yue is a "handmade customized version". They are all made one by one, not by the standard operation of the assembly line in those factories on the earth.

At best, Chen Yue's robot factory is a small handicraft workshop at the moment. As we all know, handicraft workshops will be crushed by standardized assembly line factories.

Not only the cost, but also the rest of the aspects, output and quality, will be crushed.

"There are only about 100 robots, which is far from enough. Even in the early stages of my development, I had to have at least a few hundred thousand robots. There are so many robots, all up to me to rub them one by hand? That's not going to work. It has to be scaled, it has to be standardized. ”

At this moment, after solving the danger of "paralysis", Chen Yue set his goal on scale.

He decided to build a robot factory. A real robot factory.

No, this may not be called a factory, people should be an industrial area.

A wooden 5-type robot has about 10,000 parts on it. Among them, there are 9,652 parts, which are less demanding and can be manufactured in-house.

These 9,652 parts require at least 32 supporting factories to produce. After that, they are sent to the final assembly plant for final assembly. The result is a standardized robot.

However, these 32 supporting plants need to cooperate with factories such as power plants, steel plants, and chemical plants upstream. In the end, without hundreds of factories, it is basically impossible for this industrial zone to function.

But......

Let's take it one step at a time.

Chen Yue thought secretly: "Let's start with the most important factory. ”

He plans to build a power plant first.

At this stage, the energy source for Chen Yue's own operation, as well as all the robots and all the equipment, is all the Luminous spacecraft itself.

Some of the fuel left in it is used to drive the engine to generate electricity, and the electricity from a few plutonium isotope batteries is supplied to these consumers.

However, at the moment there is not much fuel left. Plutonium isotope batteries, on the other hand, can provide a limited amount of power.

All things considered, there is a sufficient necessity to build a power plant.

What was decided, Chen Yue immediately began to do it.

A small power plant is not technically difficult. Even if he continues to "rub by hand", Chen Yue can also rub out the relevant equipment. At most, the quality is not that high, but it definitely works.

He plans to follow tradition and generate electricity by boiling hot water. To put it simply, electricity is produced by heating water to produce high-pressure water vapor to propel a generator into operation.

This requires a boiler, a generator, and some other supporting equipment.

The ore mined by the Robot Legion was no longer used to make robots, but began to produce power plant equipment. Another group of robots left the Glowing Monster and began to explore farther afield.

If you want to build a power plant to generate electricity, you must at least have fuel. After early exploration, Chen Yue finally selected a compound called propylene.