Chapter 162 Development of the Hard Body of Bionic Humans
Hearing what Huang Zongsheng said, one of his students was stunned with a look on his face: "Brother spent twenty minutes to write a four-page manuscript, which is enough for us to study for decades? Ah, this——"
He suddenly said in his heart what a good guy.
I knew that Senior Brother Lu was very good, and I had never doubted it,
But I really didn’t expect that the big academician I looked up to would actually say that he was a mediocre scholar compared to Senior Brother Lu?
Then who are we graduate students who are still worrying about our graduation thesis?
When the country has the ability to manufacture the "Lu'an Telescope", it means that it has mastered its core technology.
Many technologies in this telescope have significant potential for civilian transformation. Industries such as semiconductors, smartphones, medical diagnosis, and industrial laser processing can all use its advanced technologies.
For example, the adaptive optics system of telescopes can provide technology prototypes for civilian laser communications and can be used in ocean monitoring and digital upgrading of inland shipping.
Piezoelectric fast mirror technology can be used in industrial laser processing equipment to achieve nanoscale spot positioning and improve semiconductor wafer cutting efficiency.
The vacuum insulation technology involved can be used in the design of cargo tanks of LNG carriers; the gold-plated beryllium mirror manufacturing process can be used in high-end smartphone camera modules to greatly improve the resolution of night shots; the adaptive temperature control algorithm can be used in air conditioning systems to dynamically adjust the refrigerant flow rate by detecting indoor and outdoor temperature differences in real time, etc.
At present, there is almost no technical foundation in this area in China, and some are very weak.
If you look at the overall manufacturing and material costs of the telescope, it will definitely not cost so much. It will be around 12 billion. Based on domestic prices, it will definitely be cheaper than the Hubble Telescope.
But to be able to manufacture the telescope and achieve the expected level of the design goals, it is necessary to spend huge sums of money to develop and establish a set of related tight manufacturing processes almost from scratch. Only with this foundation can the telescope be manufactured.
Lu An has made an assessment and estimates that a total budget of around 50 billion is needed.
On Friday, August 25, there was big news in the astronomy world.
Today, China's first large-scale space telescope project focusing on infrared band observation, the "Lu An Telescope", was officially announced. The project has an investment budget of 50 billion yuan and is funded by Lu An personally.
Huge investment budget, the name of the telescope, and Luan itself bring huge traffic attention.
This has brought unprecedented attention to the astronomical community and made headlines.
The project is led by the National Space Administration, and more than 20 top domestic institutions or universities including the National Astronomical Observatory, Purple Mountain Observatory, National Space Science Center, NPU, Qingbei University, University of Science and Technology, and Nanjing University are participating.
Basically, the top domestic astronomy and related scientific research institutions and institutes are participating. It is expected that nearly 3,000 scientists and engineers in different fields will participate in the project.
The project establishment meeting was held this morning in Beijing.
Lu An also went to Beijing to attend the project establishment meeting. After all, he is the sole sponsor of this project. Without his funding, this project would not have been born.
However, Lu An came to attend the meeting mainly to have his face scanned as a "financier", and he returned to Jianing on the same day after the face scan was completed.
Him will not be involved in the specific development and manufacturing of the telescope, and he does not have the time.
I have written a four-page manuscript for other scientists and engineers to work on. The only thing left is to occasionally check the progress of the project. Unless the project is completely blocked by technical problems and the scientific and technical personnel involved in the project cannot solve it, Lu An will only come forward when this happens.
However, this situation should be a low-probability event. The four pages of the manuscript are equivalent to reference answers, so it is not like this.
On the next day, this incident also caused a huge sensation in the international astronomical community. Astronomers around the world could not sit still when they learned about this incident. Those with connections in China called their colleagues in the domestic astronomical community to confirm whether the news was true.
A major scientific research project of this level is a big event even in the global astronomical community.
The academic astronomy community, even foreign astronomers, are very happy to hear about this project and support it without hesitation, because it is beneficial to their academic research.
There are even foreign scientific research teams in the astronomical community who have approached the project owner for consultation. After the "Lu'an Telescope" is launched and put into use in the future, can it develop observation qualifications for foreign scientific research teams? If so, how to apply for it?
Scientists in the astronomy community are happy to hear about it, but foreign media are not. To be precise, it is the vested interest groups behind the media that control these media.
On the third day after the establishment of the project, a European mainstream media published an article saying: Humanity already has the "James Webb Telescope" project under development, which also focuses on infrared band observations. Launching the "Lu'an Telescope" project is a repeated waste of resources.
The media further stated in the article: In the current global economic environment that is full of challenges, many countries are cutting basic scientific research budgets,
· Countless problems on the earth, poverty, disease, climate crisis and other urgent resources are urgently needed to solve, what is the practical significance of spending such a huge sum of money to repeatedly build a telescope "just to see further"?
Obviously, the article published by this European magnesium media gave people a very unpleasant feeling between the lines.
Because there is not only moral kidnapping, but the subtext is, this kind of high-level things can only be played by their Europeans, why do you want to get involved? Is this something you can get involved in? You should cut your hair and make shirts.
A group of well-known public figures in China followed suit by ridiculing, smearing and slandering this telescope project.
However, it is no different now than it was five years ago. Many netizens have come out to criticize these big nephews. Compared with five years ago, the Internet environment is much better.
Even so, the voices of the nephews of the public are still very loud, and at the moment they are not to the extent that everyone shouts and beats them.
Lu An ignored the hustle and bustle on the Internet. After attending the meeting, he brushed his face and returned to Jianing City. Then he focused on the development of the intelligent body of the AI assistant "Lingxi" and the development of the bionic human hardware body.
Yuanjie Intelligent Control Headquarters and R&D Center.
"Boss, the design indicators of the latest generation of humanoid robots you told us are to create a robotic android companion?" In the laboratory, Fu Chen asked hurriedly when he heard the new task assigned by Lu An.
An engineer next to him brightened up and said: "This can happen. The majority of netizens outside are eagerly looking forward to it, and there are also many people in the community who want to do it."
The first generation Xiaoyuan robot only behaves highly like a human, but its body is still a machine.
Although bionics are also robots, the biggest difference is that bionics are more anthropomorphic. Both in appearance and behavior, they can be as real as humans.
Lu An looked around at his subordinates and said: "It is indeed a bionic human, but its positioning is not the cyber girlfriend you think of, but a powerful bionic bodyguard. The new project is not aimed at commercialization. It is to allocate bodyguards to the company's core personnel to provide higher security protection."
This is true. Not only can you configure androids for yourself and Meng Qiuyan, but you can also configure some of the company's core figures.
Fu Chen said with a smile: "If we can create a bionic bodyguard, it is also a matter of course to use the derivative technology to create a cybernetic companion."
Lu An immediately said: "Let's talk about it later, we can create it at this stage. We are faced with the embarrassing situation of not being able to use it if we can afford it, and not being able to afford it if we can use it."
Quickly skipping this topic, Lu An looked around at the crowd and added: "This is the general idea of the hardware design of bionic humans. Take a look at it."
Hearing this, everyone picked up their work tablets, received the file sent by Lu An, and then opened the preview.
The hardware body of bionic humans requires the participation of many fields such as biological simulation, artificial intelligence, and materials science.
Even compared to the Xiaoyuan robot, which is considered by outsiders to be full of black technology, the technological content of the bionic human hardware body is far higher than that of the Xiaoyuan robot by several generations, and there are many technology trees to light up.
The design goal requires the bionic human body to have powerful explosive power and speed, which can be more than five times that of humans, and can easily suppress adults with bare hands.
After all, Lu An wants to build a bionic bodyguard, so the force value must not be low.
As a bionic mechanical body, bionic humans neither need breathing nor sleep, and are immune to radiation, vacuum, toxic gases, etc.
The mechanical structure of the bionic human is planned to use nano-lattice adaptive alloy to create a mechanical composite structure.
The nano-lattice adaptive alloy being developed is lightweight and has ultra-high strength, which can support bionic humans to withstand extreme physical impacts such as falling and impact. The alloy material also has ultra-high plasticity and stability, making it the best choice for internal mechanical skeleton materials.
In order for the appearance to be as real as that of humans, it is also necessary to develop artificial epidermal technology that has the biological characteristics and texture of human skin.
The bionic body is integrated with microfluidic channels to transport coolant.
This coolant circulation system simulates human blood circulation. Of course, it is certainly not as sophisticated as the human blood circulation system and capillary network, but the degree of sophistication is relatively amazing.
In addition to this, a pseudo-digestive function system must be designed.
Obviously, this is designed for the social module, that is, the bionic person can support eating, and the food is decomposed into harmless residues by microwaves in the bionic stomach bag.
Lu An has designed a multi-spectral sensory system for the bionic human. The visual ability is in the visible light and infrared/ultraviolet bands, with a wavelength of 220-
1100 nanometers. The dynamic focusing speed is 10 times faster than the human eye. The hearing ability is from 20Hz to 80kHz, which can receive infrasound waves and support sonar positioning.
This series of functions also means that the bionic man is a big consumer of power.
Therefore, it needs to be equipped with a solid-state lattice battery with an energy density of 3000Wh/kg, and the net weight of the battery is 40 kg.
A full charge can reach 120 kilowatt-hours of electricity, and the battery life can reach 30 to 100 hours.
The fluctuation rate of battery life mainly depends on the specific scene. If frequent exercise or strenuous exercise or even fighting is required, and all systems are fully turned on, the power consumption will increase significantly. The maximum power consumption can reach 8 kilowatt-hours of electricity per hour. In this case, it can only support 15 hours.
But if you just stand still like a wooden person, when running with low power consumption, the power consumption per hour is less than 0.85 degrees.
The battery is the module that accounts for the largest weight of the entire body of the bionic man. In order to optimize the internal space resources of the body, the 40 kilogram battery must be broken into 5 batteries of different sizes and distributed inside the body.
This also has another potential benefit. If one battery is damaged, it can be shut down through the power management system without affecting the normal output of other batteries.