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Chapter 535: The First Technology of Robotic Civilization

These technologies, including more powerful quantum robotics technology, human cryonics technology, various space technologies, and so on, any one of which will have great significance that transcends the times.

However, no one will feel complacent because of the successful development of these technologies. After all, the gap between them and this alien civilization is probably unimaginable. Only by continuously developing various technologies can they gradually make up for the huge gap in science and technology between the two sides.

However, there has been no news about the electromagnetic wave signal sent towards the alien civilization, which has caused everyone to gradually ignore its existence.

On the other hand, the seeds of "robot civilization" launched by Ning Chen to Titan finally arrived safely after a long journey.

Ning Chen and Song Xiyun also often observe the situation on Titan, looking forward to changes on this planet.

After all, compared to the upgraded Martian robots, these seeds of robot civilization are the technological products that Ning Chen has truly poured tremendous energy and expectations into. Since those Martian robots can demonstrate various manifestations similar to civilization, then the robots on Titan can definitely build a more powerful civilization.

However, as time passed, the seeds of these robot civilizations showed no signs of sprouting, which gradually extinguished the expectations of Ning Chen and Song Xiyun.

They were even a little worried that the thinking of this robot civilization was not the right choice at all, or that their design plans contained serious program errors in some places.

But now that the plan has reached this stage, they cannot immediately start a new round of research in a short period of time and can only continue to wait for changes on the satellite.

Just as Ning Chen and Song Xiyun's expectations for them gradually faded, the seeds of these robot civilizations quietly changed.

After many days of silence, they seemed to have finally adapted to this new environment and began to absorb the nutrients available around them, allowing their bodies to gradually grow.

After learning that the seeds of these robots had begun to develop, Ning Chen and Song Xiyun were both very surprised. They realized that their previous worries were unnecessary and that the plan had not really failed. It was just that the germination speed of these robot seeds was slower than expected.

"Song Xiyun, it seems that we have overestimated the planetary conditions of Titan. If these robot seeds do not confirm that the surrounding environment is suitable for their growth, they will not easily start their growth program. This feeling is like the seeds of a plant. If it does not encounter a suitable environment, it will never germinate. Otherwise, it will only lead to its own demise faster..."

Under Ning Chen's design, these robot seeds have a very strong sense of security, which is also a necessary condition for a civilization to be born and survive.

In just a few days, the seeds of these robot civilizations grew in size at an extremely fast rate, turning them into complete robots.

The rapid growth rate of these robots is inseparable from the powerful "material factory" designed by Ning Chen in their bodies. The speed at which they digest and absorb various minerals is far greater than that of normal organisms.

This also allows them to grow from seeds into "adult" robots within a few days and prepare to continue their mission of reproduction.

This is the part that Ning Chen is most looking forward to, because theoretically, the reproduction of this type of robot carries a great deal of randomness and uncertainty. It is possible to breed robots with more powerful performance, but it is also entirely possible to breed some robots with very poor performance that can only be scrapped.

But no matter what, as long as the number of these new robots is large enough, they can evolve in a more powerful direction.

As these robots continue to multiply, all the previous predictions have come true.

Under the almost random method of robot reproduction, the offspring of these first-generation robots indeed showed a variety of different "traits", which produced quite obvious differences from the previous generation of robots.

Some of these results, which are similar to "gene mutations", have a positive impact on the performance of the robot, while others have negative effects to varying degrees.

But no matter whether such an impact seems to be beneficial or harmful, Ning Chen will not easily draw a conclusion, but will let natural selection decide which robots can continue to survive on this planet.

This is also an idea shown in Darwin's "Theory of Evolution". This theory believes that biological evolution itself does not have a fixed direction, but under the long process of natural selection, only the evolutionary direction of organisms that can adapt to the environment can continue, and those organisms that are not adapted to the environment will gradually be eliminated by nature.

Ning Chen also hopes to use similar methods to screen out powerful robot civilizations that can truly adapt to the cosmic environment, and thereby bring some inspiration to his own scientific and technological research and development.

But some things that happened afterwards gave Ning Chen some new understanding of this robot civilization.

It can be seen that this robot civilization does not rely entirely on environmental selection to naturally eliminate those robots that are not suitable for the environment. Instead, it has established a detailed robot evaluation plan within this robot civilization.

According to this robot evaluation plan, robots that are assessed by the robot civilization as having "inferior" performance will be expelled from the robot civilization in advance, and may even be at risk of being directly scrapped.

Although this method seems very cruel, to some extent, it is indeed a way that is beneficial to the development of civilization, because it can avoid the waste of robot civilization resources to the greatest extent, while accelerating the civilization's selection of excellent "robot genes", allowing them to improve the overall quality of robots more quickly.

"Ning Chen, this robot civilization is really cruel. Any robot that is assessed by them as not up to standard will not even have a chance to survive in the civilization. Can such a cold-blooded group really be called a civilization?"

Hearing Song Xiyun's doubts, Ning Chen said helplessly:

"Actually, this is a very normal situation. Throughout the history of human civilization, there have been many cold-blooded and ruthless civilizations, but this has not affected the strength of these civilizations. In fact, I'm not sure whether all alien civilizations have strong emotions. Even intelligent creatures like the people on Blue Star who are easily affected by emotions may be only a very small minority..." Ning Chen naturally would not agree with this cold-blooded style of civilization, but Ning Chen also knew that existence is reasonable, and he would still analyze this kind of civilization very objectively.

Just as Ning Chen expected, this cruel method of robot screening did allow this robot civilization to develop at a very rapid speed.

In just a few months, they have completed several generations of reproduction and evolution, making their various performance properties more suitable for the environment of Titan.

While adapting to the planetary environment, they are also constantly transforming the environment of Titan, making this planet no longer a barren land, but gradually showing signs of being suitable for life.

In less than a year, this robot civilization has developed many high-tech technologies that are only possessed by human civilization. Such a rapid development speed also made Ning Chen and Song Xiyun astonished.

"Ning Chen, putting aside my resistance to this civilization, I must admit that the speed of its development is indeed too astonishing. If it continues to develop at this speed, it is estimated that they will soon develop technologies that have never appeared in our Blue Star civilization."

"Yes, this is the strength of this robot civilization. Under my original program settings, they have a very strong obsession with the development of their own civilization and technology. To them, nothing is more important than this matter."

As this robotic civilization has grown, it has developed its own aviation and aerospace technology, and has begun to notice things that don't make sense.

Because when they tried to explore the outer space of Titan, they found that they could never make a breakthrough into outer space.

It was as if there was a very solid barrier here. No matter how they tried, they could only fly at the edge of Titan's outer space. The invisible barrier allowed them to only vaguely see the outer space, but they had no way of flying even a short distance outside.

After continuous efforts failed, they had to believe that the small planet Titan was all the space they could move around in. They were like pets locked in a cage. Even if they could see the outside world, it was just out of reach.

Some robots even think that the scenes outside are just illusions. There is no need for them to care about these things, but they should continue to focus on the development of the interior of the planet.

Of course, there are a very small number of robots that still imagine that they will have the opportunity to break through this barrier in the future and have not given up on research on related technologies, just like humans thousands of years ago who also dreamed of flying into the sky one day.

The despair of going to the outside world did not affect the continued development of the robot civilization. After focusing their main energy on research on the interior of the planet, they quickly developed a number of the latest technologies.

In fact, some of these technologies even surprised Ning Chen. If these technologies can be processed and modified, it will also play an important role in the technological development of Blue Star civilization.

"I can't believe that these robot civilizations have already developed relatively mature exoskeleton devices. This technology, which once existed in science fiction movies on Blue Planet, has actually appeared in the real universe."

"Yes, this technology is really suitable for these robots. Because of their own structure, these robots can control exoskeleton devices very easily, unlike humans, who need a long period of adaptation before they can barely use such devices."

The so-called exoskeleton device, which is what people usually call a "mech robot", looks very cool in science fiction movies, but in actual research and development, it has many defects and is not a technology that can be put into use in a short time.

However, the emergence of robotic civilization has enabled this technology to be successfully developed, and the various defects of previous exoskeleton devices have been solved one by one.

"Ning Chen, if humans were to control these mecha robots, could they achieve the same effect as this robot?"

Hearing Song Xiyun's words, Ning Chen shook his head helplessly.

"At present, it is still very difficult to do this. Even for humans of our level, it is difficult to control this exoskeleton device easily. This is not because our abilities are not as good as these robots, but there is a big gap between the structure of humans and robots. Just like connecting the human brain to the brain, we must first solve the problem of information conversion..."

As he was speaking, Ning Chen suddenly changed the subject.

"But if we can do careful research and continuous training, I think we still have a chance to achieve the same control effect of these robots on exoskeletons, and we may even be able to do better than them. Song Xiyun, let's start developing this technology now. I believe this will be an important means for us to deal with this alien civilization."

Song Xiyun was also full of expectations for this, so she immediately agreed to Ning Chen's idea.

"Yeah, I can't even imagine what it will be like after we successfully develop this technology. If the eight billion people on the blue planet can wear such exoskeleton devices to fight against this alien civilization, then no matter how powerful this alien civilization is, it will be difficult to defeat us easily."

Just a mecha robot has capabilities comparable to those of an army. When such a device is popularized to every ordinary person, its effect on enhancing the combat effectiveness of a civilization will undoubtedly be extremely terrifying.

Of course, even if this robotic civilization has developed exoskeleton device technology that can be suitable for them, Ning Chen will not just copy these technologies directly, but will make some improvements and enhancements on this basis.

Because Ning Chen must ensure that this technology is suitable for use by humans on Blue Star, Ning Chen must completely adopt his own ideas on the way to connect the human brain and the exoskeleton device.

(End of this chapter)