Manufacturing Empire in the Valley

Chapter 779 High-end Laboratory

"It's the sensor that was airlifted from Japan just this afternoon, and the rest of the tiny motors will arrive tomorrow."

Niu Xiaoqiang was taken aback: "The speed is so fast?"

Watson laughed quite complacently: "The name of MIT is still very famous. When the other party hears that MIT wants to purchase, they will naturally not neglect it."

Niu Xiaoqiang snorted, "Let's go to the laboratory."

Watson nodded, took out a magnetic card and swiped open the glass door of the laboratory.There were two security guards sitting inside. They verified their identity information according to the regulations, and let them pass immediately after confirming that they were correct.

Niu Xiaoqiang carried the wooden box on his shoulders and walked inside under the leadership of Professor Watson.

After walking for more than 20 seconds, Watson opened the door of one of the laboratories with a magnetic card, and introduced to Niu Xiaoqiang: "This is a special laboratory of the School of Physical and Mechanical Engineering, and the equipment inside is very complete. You should familiarize yourself with the situation first. , Let's start working after getting familiar with it."

Niu Xiaoqiang agreed, put down the wooden box, and wandered around the laboratory.

This laboratory has a very large area, and there are many high-end equipment in it. The more Niu Xiaoqiang looked at it, the more excited he became, and he wished to move all these equipment to the Asian Machinery Factory.

At present, Western countries still impose a technical blockade on China, and CNC machine tools with slightly higher precision will not be sold to China, let alone those high-end processing equipment.

Niu Xiaoqiang thought to himself: If these things can be sold to me, I can guarantee that the manufacturing level of Asia Machinery Factory will rise several steps. Unfortunately, no matter how much money you give, they will not sell them.

With the help of Zhang Xiaolan, Watson opened the wooden box, turned his head to see Niu Xiaoqiang standing in front of a CNC machine tool in a daze, and asked curiously, "What are you doing?"

"Oh, nothing."

Niu Xiaoqiang turned around and took out the sensors from the wooden box: "Xiaolan, let's assemble the sensors first, and then connect them to the circuit to see if there are any quality problems."

Zhang Xiaolan nodded happily, and assembled with Niu Xiaoqiang.

Professor Watson is not very good at this aspect, so he can only help from the sidelines.

The technical content of the signal sensor is not very high-end, but this kind of equipment is a relatively delicate type, so Zhang Xiaolan and Niu Xiaoqiang are very careful, for fear that the sensor will be damaged by excessive force.

It took more than three hours, and the signal sensing system of the robot was finally assembled. After testing, it was found that there was no problem with the sensing system.

Watson looked at his watch: "It's past ten o'clock, I'll stop here today, and continue tomorrow night."

Both Niu Xiaoqiang and Zhang Xiaolan shook their heads, feeling that it was too early to call it a day.

Seeing that the two of them disagreed, Watson smiled and said, "Okay, let's work for another two hours."

For the next half an hour, Niu Xiaoqiang started the CNC machine tool and became familiar with the use of the CNC machine tool through the manual.

According to the actual situation, Niu Xiaoqiang didn't need to spend such a long time at all.But this thing is too delicate and expensive, Niu Xiaoqiang has to be more careful.Otherwise, if it breaks, it will be a lot of fun.

After thoroughly mastering the use of CNC machine tools, Niu Xiaoqiang picked up a piece of metal material and began to practice the actual operation.

This metal material is provided by the School of Physical and Mechanical Engineering.According to Niu Xiaoqiang's idea, intelligent robots are only used to cheat money, and they don't need to use super carbon steel for manufacturing, just use conventional metal materials.

In order to save production costs, Professor Watson obtained a batch of materials from the School of Physical and Mechanical Engineering, and Niu Xiaoqiang only needed to process them into the required parts.

After the practical operation practice, Niu Xiaoqiang was full of confidence and began to formally process the required spare parts.

In terms of mechanical processing, neither Professor Watson nor Zhang Xiaolan are very familiar with it, so they can only stand aside and watch.

Niu Xiaoqiang fixed the material on the machine tool, set the parameters and stepped back.Next, he doesn't need to do anything, just monitor the operation of the machine tool.

He secretly sighed in his heart: As expected of high-end equipment, it is easy to process, unlike in China, skilled craftsmen are required to control the processing accuracy at all times, and if there is a slight deviation, the material will be scrapped.

In terms of mechanical processing, domestic labor is used to make up for the lack of equipment. No matter in terms of work efficiency or scrap rate, labor is obviously unable to compare with high-end CNC machine tools.

Of course, some parts must be processed by hand, but the number of such parts is very rare. In terms of large-scale industrial manufacturing, CNC machine tools are still superior.

Watson couldn't help asking: "Xiaoqiang, which part are you processing now?"

Niu Xiaoqiang's memory is very strong, and the sizes and specifications of all parts are all installed in his mind, so he didn't even bring a laptop.

"What is being processed now is the exoskeleton of the elbow part."

"Oh, according to your estimate, how long will it take to process all the parts?"

"The total number of parts is 130. According to the work efficiency of CNC machine tools, it will take about five days."

Watson nodded: "Can the remaining assembly work be completed within two days?"

Niu Xiaoqiang made an estimate and replied: "With Xiaolan's help, two days should be enough, but I'm not sure whether it can run normally after the assembly is completed. In my opinion, the software is the key point. Are you confident?"

It is not very difficult to make a machine and equipment work. What is really difficult is to make this equipment work according to your will.How to express your will?The answer is to rely on the program.

For an intelligent robot, the program is a very critical part. If you want it to walk, you need to set relevant parameters, and many issues need to be considered.

For example, how does it control the center of gravity?How to avoid obstacles?How to go up and down stairs?All of this needs to be calculated extremely accurately, and then communicated to the robot through the program.

Robots themselves do not have human senses, and all their actions are completed in accordance with human instructions.Human instructions can only be conveyed through programs, as long as there is any slight error, they will not be able to complete the instructions.

This is just the most basic walking ability, and it is also the basic function that Niu Xiaoqiang is willing to give to the robot.After all, this project is for making money. The so-called intelligence research is just a gimmick. Niu Xiaoqiang doesn’t mean to explore in depth. Otherwise, if the robot is really taken by some institutions in the United States, he may provoke unnecessary Trouble.

(End of this chapter)