2111 Black Technology Mining

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"Chen Cheng, hurry up and deliver the food to Luo Gong and the others."

In the canteen on the ship, Chef Zhang shouted to Chen Cheng while holding several packed lunch boxes.

Luo Gong is a teacher at Harbin Institute of Technology and one of the main persons in charge of this underwater mining project.

The technicians who operate the underwater robot are the students he took this time.

It is broad daylight now, which is the busiest time for mining work on the ship every day. Luo Gong and the others have to stay in front of the machine.

They don't even bother to come to the cafeteria to eat, because their professional manpower is limited, so no one can replace them.

They dare not leave their jobs easily.

Because Chen Cheng was relatively close to them on weekdays, Lao Zhang from the cafeteria gave Chen Cheng the task of delivering food to them.

And Chen Cheng, who was like a man who had learned from his master, was naturally reluctant to take up the task of serving tea and water.

After all, efforts will always be rewarded, and recently he became familiar with Teacher Luo.

Teacher Luo and his few apprentices had a very good impression of him.

Many operations did not shy away from him. Even when he asked some questions, they would patiently answer him...

Chen Cheng happily rushed directly to the operation room in the middle of the ship, carrying a hot meal and a large bottle of iced sour plum soup.

This is the largest studio on the entire ship, with an area of ​​more than one hundred square meters.

There are some folding beds and fitness equipment placed on the far side.

These are designed to relieve employees' stress when they feel tired.

After all, the staff here are the core treasures on the ship.

Therefore, the treatment they received was naturally the best. Even the captain's cockpit was not as big as their studio space.

At this time, Teacher Luo was leading several of his students in front of the workbench, operating the equipment.

On the south-facing wall between them is a large screen.

This large screen is divided into many small projection screens, and each projection screen displays different working areas faced by different robots.

Behind this wall, there are four semi-enclosed cockpits neatly placed.

From the outside, these cockpits look full of technology, reminding people of the image of Mobile Suit Gundam when they see them.

These cockpits are three-dimensional and look as cool as robots.

Inside the cockpit, there are operators working nervously.

These operators are the operating technicians of underwater robots.

At this time, each of them was wearing a helmet, and the sunglasses in front of the helmet were their monitors.

The camera connected to the robot can clearly see the underwater situation.

The situation captured by the camera will be immediately fed back to the sunglasses in front of them.

Then they will make their own judgment based on what they see.

Moreover, the hands and feet of those operators are also connected to various sensors.

And every move made by their hands and feet will be synchronized to the underwater robot under the sea.

This gives those robots the most flexible degree of operation.

In fact, underwater robots have been around for a long time.

It's just that the underwater robots that were born before can only be said to be the simplest robots.

To put it bluntly, it is a simple small submarine with a searchlight and camera, plus a pair of pliers.

The task of those robots is quite simple, which is to go under the sea surface and explore the situation on the seabed.

The main job is to prepare for the shipwreck of the boss, and it has basically no other effects.

If they use their underwater mining this time, it is undoubtedly a fantasy.

Because such a robot simply does not have the characteristics to work under the water.

This time, the celebrity chef group has made a lot of preparations in order to develop under the water.

The most difficult part of this is how to collect mineral sand under the sea.

You must know that the working environment under the sea is different from that on land.

When mining on land, the only headache is having to dig deep and drill holes.

The ore containing precious metals is dug out, loaded onto trucks, and transported directly to the smelting furnace.

It's different under the sea, because the entire working environment is submerged in water.

So it has to withstand a lot of forces coming from different directions, like if you find a mineral vein buried a few meters deep under the seabed.

So how do you dig out these veins? You must know that most of these veins are solid seafloor rocks.

So what you have to do is use a drill to drill holes in the veins, then bury explosives in them to blow up the veins.

Then use a drill to break the ore into sand, and then suck it up.

This process cannot be accomplished with just a controllable drill bit.

At this time you are about to take pictures of underwater robots.

Because sometimes the mineral veins can be buried under the water surface more than 20 meters deep, and sometimes they have to be buried under the water surface 100 meters, even hundreds of meters, or even thousands of meters deep.

Humans cannot enter such deep water areas at all, so we can only send robots down.

The main job of the robot is to take root in the underwater mineral deposits.

Then use both hands to hold the drill bit and plow back and forth on the vein or drill a hole.

In this way, the output of the drill bit can be stabilized. At the same time, the robot must withstand huge counter-impact forces and must resolve these impact forces.

At the same time, don’t forget that there will be undercurrents under the water, and there will be the impact and buoyancy of the water.

Under the action of these various forces, the robot can easily be displaced.

Once displacement occurs, the drill bit will become unstable.

Therefore, this robot must be made more sophisticated and complex.

It is definitely not comparable to the extremely simple underwater detection robots previously developed in Europe and the United States.

That's why there was a robot control cockpit like the one Chen Cheng saw in front of him.

At this time, four students were in the cockpit, passing through the sensors tied to their limbs.

Synchronized remote control of underwater robots.

Teacher Luo was sitting in front of the TV wall at the front of the office, taking in an overview of the whole situation.

If he finds something wrong there, he will immediately ask the students to make corrections.

After all, the environment under the water is ever-changing. It may be calm one moment, but it may change suddenly the next second.

Undercurrents will come out of nowhere...

"Teacher Luo, the food is here, you should eat first!"

Chen Cheng put the food on the table and shouted.

Teacher Luo looked back and said, "Okay, during lunch break, everyone should stop, have a bite to eat and take a break."

Several students stopped immediately. There was a joystick near their wrists.

Just flick the joystick and the sensors on your body will be released.

At the same time, the robot under the water will stop working and then quickly surface.

These robots have been working for more than six hours since they were launched into the water at around six o'clock in the morning. It's time to come up and take a rest.

These robots are different from ordinary robots. These are the latest humanoid-shaped robots developed by Spark Technology.

Although they appear to be solid on land, after all, they have been operating under the water for a long time, or in the deep sea.

Therefore, it must be maintained frequently, and it will be taken out at noon every day.

Carry out flushing, maintenance, oiling and infusion, etc.

After all, a piece of equipment costs millions. If it breaks down, it will cost a lot of money not only to repair it.

The most important thing is to delay the mining construction period, which means both parties lose money.

So it is better to put more effort into early maintenance, rather than work a few hours less and do the best maintenance.

This also allows the robot to work longer.

These robots were designed by Spark Technology engineers according to the space assistants of their time.

It is a pity that many space materials on earth have not yet been developed, and the energy problem has not yet been solved.

So this robot only imitates an appearance.

Although compared to robots from other countries in the world, theirs is already a black technology product.

It can definitely be two eras ahead of other countries, but compared with their interstellar era products, it is still far behind.

But it is enough for Spark Technology and Celebrity Chef Group.

Even in order to avoid arousing unnecessary suspicion, the first generation launched by Spark Technology was a castrated and weakened version.

Because if you take out the all-powerful version, to put it bluntly, it will definitely be the version that crushes the world.

Not to mention that people in the United States will go crazy after seeing this, but some people in China will also have twisted thoughts after seeing it.

So this robot is a shrunken version that has lost 90% of its kilometers.

But even so, this kind of robot is already a super black technology version for the people on the ship.

It is possible to work on the seabed step by step at a depth of more than 20 meters below the water surface for more than an hour.

This is not a super awesome robot.

And the most important thing is that the synchronization is completely controlled by humans.

There are too many working environments that such robots can be applied to.

So this time, Mr. Luo from Harbin Institute of Technology personally led the team, on the one hand to study underwater mining, and on the other hand to study this robot.

Soon the miners all jumped out of the cockpit and worked all morning wearing helmets. Everyone was exhausted.

You must know that although their movements can be synchronized to the robot, the various forces received by the robot will also be fed back to them.

For example, the robot holds the drill bit, moves back and forth on the mineral vein, and plows the ground.

The water pressure of more than 20 meters deep, as well as ocean currents, and the huge backlash force on the drill bit.

Although it is transmitted back through the sensor, it is still scaled down to a ratio of one to dozens.

But they are also quite tired from having to keep the robot balanced under so many complex forces and work normally for several hours.

When they heard that there was food to be eaten, they all quickly rushed to the table.