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Chapter 007: Making a Bionic Prosthetic Robotic Arm

 half a month later.

 In the company's factory building, sunlight shines through the dusty glass windows on a group of busy figures.

  Lu An is leading the company's start-up team members and is sprinting towards the goal of manufacturing the first bionic prosthetic robotic arm.

 At this moment, he is in front of a workbench.

 Hold a design drawing that has been revised many times in his hand, and his eyes glanced back and forth on it.

  On the drawings, the structure of each component of the bionic prosthesis is clear, and every detail embodies the efforts of him and the founding team.

 "He Liang, bring that alloy thin tube."

 Lu An said without raising his head. He Liang is the member of the team responsible for material processing and one of the first five members to join the job.

He found the thin tube from the pile of tools next to him and handed it to Lu An: "Boss, go on."

He took the thin tube and put it in front of his eyes. Lu An looked at it carefully for a while, stroking and feeling its texture. Under the company's limited conditions, many materials were made using existing materials as much as possible.

 This pipe was recovered from an abandoned machinery factory. After being cleaned and polished by them, it can reach the standard of use.

  At this time, they are making the skeleton of the robotic arm.

  Lu An then instructed another employee to place several aluminum alloy plates on the workbench. The other employee skillfully picked up the angle grinder, put on a protective mask, and started cutting the plates.

  A harsh noise sounded, sparks flew, and aluminum alloy chips fell one after another.

Lu An was holding a tape measure at the side, carefully measuring the size of each plate to ensure that the cut parts met the design requirements.

 After cutting is completed, it is polishing and assembly.

 Employee Zhang Wenjie took sandpaper and carefully polished the edges of each cut plate until they became smooth and flat.

 Then another employee, Yu Changle, assembled the polished parts and fixed them together with screwdrivers and wrenches. Although the movements were slow, they were also very precise.

 After the skeleton is completed, the next step is to install the circuit part.

  This is a delicate job that requires patience and concentration.

 The circuit engineers in the team have placed various electronic components and circuits on the workbench.

Wearing a magnifying glass and holding a soldering iron, he carefully soldered resistors and capacitors to the circuit board one by one.

 "The line layout here needs to be adjusted, otherwise there may be signal interference." Lu An stood aside and pointed to a place on the circuit board and said.

 The other party nodded, looked at it carefully, and then adjusted the position of the line.

 The circuit board gradually took shape, and the dense lines were like a complex network, which carried the nerve signal transmission of the bionic prosthesis.

 Lu An stopped paying attention to the employee after confirming that there was no problem, and looked elsewhere.

 As time went by, while everyone was busy working, a young employee, Guo Wei, threw the tools in his hand to the ground.

Zhang Wenjie, the colleague next to him, couldn't help but said: "Take it easy, don't throw things around..."

Guo Wei ignored him and walked directly towards Lu An. When he got to him, he said, "Boss, I can't handle the intensity of the work anymore. I want to resign."

As soon as these words came out, several employees nearby couldn't help but look over after hearing this.

 Lu An looked at the other person and said, "Have you thought about it?"

 Hearing this, Guo Wei nodded: "I'm really tired. I came to apply for a job as a coder before, but now I really can't hold on to this job. I'm very sorry."

 Currently, all employees of the company are working overtime, and the work intensity is indeed very high.

 Working for at least 10 hours a day, 12 hours is common, and there are only two days of rest a month, which is basically the same as assembly line workers who drive screws in a factory.

 However, in the start-up stage of the company, limited funds inevitably lead to insufficient manpower, and overtime is inevitable.

  Lu An patted his shoulder and nodded and said, "Okay, I've worked hard for you during this period. Go to the company's financial office and settle your salary today. I wish you a bright future."

  Guo Wei couldn't help being slightly stunned when he heard this. He didn't expect that the boss agreed so readily and didn't even hold back.

 This made it impossible for him to say a few words of complaint that he had planned to say, so he had to say: "Thank you for your understanding, boss."

 After saying this, he left the factory workshop.

Lu An immediately put down what he was doing, and then took out his mobile phone and called Meng Qiuyan: "Qiuyan, please settle Guo Wei's salary for him. I approved his resignation." People come in. "

Meng Qiuyan replied: "Okay."

After a simple instruction, Lu An ended the call. Lu An asked everyone to pause, and then said with a smile: "Brothers, the time is tight at the moment, the tasks are heavy, and the work intensity is high, but after these few months everything will be fine."

Lu An continued: "There is already a brother who can't bear to play GG. I respect everyone's choice, but I hope that in the near future, when we harvest the results and share the cake, everyone will still be at Metaverse Intelligence. Let's do it!"

  The next step is the sensor installation of the first bionic prosthetic limb, which is a key core component developed by Lu An himself. The key to the prosthetic limb is that it can accurately sense the user's muscle signals, thereby achieving the effect of waving an arm.

 With the cooperation of the algorithm technology developed by Luan, subtle changes in muscles can be captured more sensitively and analyzed quickly.

At this moment, He Liang is responsible for carefully installing the sensors on various key parts of the robotic arm and then debugging them. Lu An is guiding beside him. It is definitely faster for him to do it himself, but the important thing is to teach the people under him.

  "Put this electrode patch on your arm to simulate the electrical signals of the muscles." Lu An said to Zhang Wenjie.

 Zhang Wenjie attached the electrode patch to his arm as required, and then made various movements.

 The mechanical arm next to him also began to copy his movements. Seeing this scene, he was greatly surprised and said: "Boss, is this done? What a great achievement!"

 Several employees nearby also came to watch, and they were very excited to see this scene.

 Lu An stared at the computer screen next to him, observing the changes in the signals captured by the sensors.

"The signal is still a bit weak, maybe the position of the sensor needs to be adjusted. "He immediately readjusted the position of the sensor himself and tested it over and over again until the captured signal was stable and accurate.

"Well, not bad, in line with expectations. This is a staged victory, brothers, a good start." Lu An nodded with satisfaction.

Lu An then added: "The bionic prosthetic robotic arm has finally taken shape, and our next plan is to find a disabled volunteer for further debugging and testing."

Suddenly an employee said: "I have a hunch that Guo Wei will definitely regret it after resigning."

Everyone laughed when they heard this, and Lu An couldn't help but smile, but didn't say anything.

This phased victory gave everyone a lot of confidence. In short, they saw a bright future.

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