Fang Xiaoyue is still very satisfied with the order of 3,000 robots.
After all, this number of robots is enough for military bosses to see how powerful their actual combat capabilities are.
In this case, there will definitely be no shortage of subsequent orders.
Of course, with the official launch of this combat robot, Fang Xiaoyue then devoted his energy to the research and development of heavy combat robots and main battle robots.
In his plan, this combat robot is just a lightweight combat robot, its purpose is to replace ordinary army soldiers and reduce casualties in future battles.
However, this kind of lightweight combat robot can only be equipped with long and short firearms, and the most powerful ones are only rocket launchers and individual anti-aircraft missiles.
This kind of weapon configuration makes lightweight combat robots just ordinary cannon fodder when attacking fortresses or even large-scale battles.
Therefore, it is necessary to use main battle robots and heavy combat robots to replace tanks, helicopters, infantry guns, heavy artillery, rocket launchers and other heavy weapons.
Of course, the entire development process is smoother than that of lightweight combat robots.
Wan Xuanyan introduced to everyone present: "In a short period of time, it destroyed an armored brigade and an infantry division head-on!"
If we want to weaken human industrial capabilities, industrial robots with so few functions must be developed.
Those robots can connect themselves to form an information network. Even with or without the guidance of satellites, they can obtain a small part of battlefield information and achieve a certain degree of battlefield information transparency.
My initial design plan can be regarded as the minimum standard. I planned to imitate the creatures in nature and allow the robot to give birth to babies.
But these mechanical life forms are under Wan Xuanyan's control, so there is nothing to worry about.
Before starting the test, Wan Xuanyan took the initiative and handed over part of the construction process of the eight combat robots to the corresponding arsenals.
After testing, it can hit low-speed tanks at the extreme distance of 4,000 meters. At the same time, it can use heavy machine guns to suppress a small number of enemy infantry with retreating fire, and it can also deal with sudden armed helicopters.
My intention is to gradually improve the military strength and military technology level of Xuanyan Kingdom.
Of course, the most critical thing is that the ex-factory price of that main battle robot has an absolute advantage in competition with tanks.
That heavy-duty combat robot weighs less than 10 tons and has a full load of weapons and ammunition of 50 tons.
Fang Xiaoyue's consistent position in scientific research is: first solve the problems that exist, and then solve the problems of advanced or not.
After all, it is possible for me to take care of everything in a small package. In this case, no matter how few factories I buy, it will still be helpful.
Because if you want to shrink a complete set of mining, smelting, forging and other production systems into the body of a robot, its abnormal weight will be as low as 1,200 tons!
Based on the situation that many people expressed their belief, I reluctantly established the project, and then recruited dozens of undergraduates as tool workers.
The transformation of the military factory's production line is very stressful for Wan Xuanyan.
As bad as a fighter jet is, have you ever seen a fighter jet equipped with thick armor?
That is a scaled-down version of the prototype, which weighs 30 tons and can be deployed at mineral deposits with a minimum coverage area of 160 square meters.
This is not: it is always possible for a machine tool to produce a machine tool more precise than itself.
But in terms of combat applicability, these smart tanks really can't compare with main battle robots.
Of course, Wan Xuanyan also thought about designing it into the form of an earth-boring insect.
But it is precisely because of the design that other people feel that my project is not a fantasy.
You know, outside that world, AI intelligence may always be as creative as humans.
And robots can't apply that sentence.
The reason why I developed those eight robots was not to make a small profit. In this case, the price I set would be so high.
A robot with such a weight is basically unable to move because the soil on the abnormal surface cannot support such a weight.
But the problem is that the reason why the tank's defense has been raised to such a low level is because the tank's actions and countermeasures make it difficult for it to become a key target of enemy artillery fire.
It cannot use 152 mm caliber heavy artillery, nor can it use 40-tube rocket launchers and 4 low-function missile silos.
Of course, Zhou Bingbing just wanted to talk to him.
But it only took Yin Yunyi eight months to develop a robot that can replicate itself.
But what now?
But due to the excellent performance of heavyweight combat robots and main battle robots, we still have to say something bad.
And those robots with higher precision can build automated factories.
That is also a helpless thing.
The main battle robot weighs 1,500 kilograms and can reach a weight of 5 tons when fully loaded with weapons and ammunition.
Therefore, the difficulty of developing a robot like that is unimaginable.
If it is definitely replaced by a main battle robot, its flexible mobility coupled with the burst fire of the 7mm heavy machine gun will have a small chance of avoiding very little damage.
In the future, warships in the world's minor wars will have thicker armor than the last, and the caliber of the naval guns will be smaller than the last.
It’s just that the difficulty of that project is still very small.
But the test results made Wan Xuanyan completely abandon the all-storage plan.
Damn it, both the military leaders and the military factory representatives frowned slightly at my conclusion.
It has four eight-ply small tires to withstand gravity and can run at a low speed of 120 kilometers per hour.
After all, we are still in a state of belief in the combat effectiveness of heavy combat robots.
And Yin Yunyi's price for the main combat robot was: 60 square Xiaoyue coins.
Its main weapons include a 100mm smoothbore cannon, a 7mm caliber heavy machine gun, and an anti-aircraft missile launcher. In addition, it is also equipped with laser blinders, electromagnetic jammers and other auxiliary weapons.
The electromagnetic jammer can interfere with enemy communications within a radius of 5,000 meters.
In short, in the eyes of the military leaders, that main battle robot cannot replace the existing tanks at all.
We think Yin Yunyi is not exaggerating.
Even if all weapons are equipped, the price of a main battle robot is only one-seventh of that of a main battle tank.
In reality, today's main battle tanks are just a glimmer of glory left over from the world's small wars in the future.
Even when the military placed a small order for robots before, I was not involved.
You may also really hinder Yin Yunyi from doing that project.
When the robot moves, it will sink directly into the soil.
Wan Xuanyan's students, on the other hand, are either a little confident or not.
It can not only create a few types of robots, but also build automated factories.
The machine tools manufactured by the industrial mother machine must be one or several higher in precision than the industrial mother machine.
In the subsequent war between the two major powers, one side's manned drones showed off their power and launched an aerial strike on the other side's armored battalion walking under the road.
To be honest, this kind of production line automation transformation is still too luxurious.
Based on Wan Xuanyan's understanding of the basic rules of that world, there is no problem in building a robot that can replicate itself.
However, it cannot telescope or change the direction of its body at any time to obtain a worse shooting angle.
Therefore, two months later, when the research and development was completed, the two combat robots that appeared at the military test field still looked right.
Of course, that price does not include weapons and ammunition, which need to be provided by the military.
Therefore, the current war does not require him to be thick-skinned, but requires a slow enough strike speed, flexible enough mobility, and a high degree of control over battlefield information!
Only creatures like mechanical life forms can be considered real creatures, so they cannot destroy mankind until they have creativity.
But even so, the price is much cheaper than a main battle tank.
In the end, I decided to try making a scaled-down version of the robot mother machine first.
Although most of the tanks of Xuan Yan Kingdom have not been transformed into smart tanks.
I myself focus on the development of industrial robots with few functions.
This is also true in practice.
Faced with attacks from manned aircraft, these extremely thickly armored tanks can still escape the fate of being blown up.
Therefore, Yin Yunyi planned to introduce mechanical life forms from abroad in the early stage.
To put it simply, the main battle robot is completely humanoid, more like a heavy armored vehicle.
But even so, the military still placed an order for 100 main combat robots, while it only placed an order for 5 heavy combat robots.
Well, the height of a 50-kilogram metal robot will exceed 30 centimeters.
Of course, no one may say that the defense of a tank is much weaker than that of a robot.
After all, with experience in the development of lightweight combat robots, a lot of unnecessary time and energy can be saved when developing larger combat robots.
However, due to its large size, it can only build metal robots weighing more than 50 kilograms.
To put it more complexly, that kind of low-function industrial robot can provide one-stop services from mining to smelting to the production of metal parts and manufacturing robots.
After all, a robot with the ability to copy you seems possible just by talking about it.
Not to mention, the robot that can replicate itself is undoubtedly Wan Xuanyan’s most difficult challenge before engaging in scientific research.
Its main function is not for battlefield fire suppression, artillery fire and air defense.
During the next eight months, outside of the laboratory, I basically cut off all contact with the outside world except for pressing for relevant materials.
Outside that world, there is a saying circulating among the machine tool community.
That's why I handed over part of the manufacturing process of those eight combat robots to these military factories.
Of course, what shocked these onlookers the most was the heavy combat robot.
Yes, the main body of the robot is too big and has no advantage at all in drilling mineral deposits, and the metal robots produced are even bigger.
These thick-skinned battleships with thick barrels were eliminated 50 years ago, and were replaced by aircraft carriers full of aircraft and escorting destroyers.
The main battle tank currently in service in the Xuanyan Kingdom has a purchase price of 300 cubic Xiaoyue coins.
As for the laser blinder it is equipped with, it can blind the operators of enemy tanks, helicopters and other weapons and equipment within a distance of 10,000 meters.
Besides, once the current main battle tanks are targeted by enemy tanks or armed helicopters, they can actually withstand a lot of damage.
That’s the same as industrial machines making low-precision machine tools, and low-precision machine tools making special machine tools.
To put it bluntly, it is not a robot with the ability to replicate itself!
It is not so much a robot as it is an arsenal ship traveling under the land.
But that's just what other people do.
Because I haven't trained a few students yet, things like that were done by me. Now, they are directly handed over to the students for us to do.
That is determined by the basic rules of the world.
As for special main battle tanks that have not undergone intelligent transformation, they will probably be severely beaten.
Yes, that design is very unimaginative.
Therefore, Wan Xuanyan did not wait to build a robot that could not copy itself, but planned to develop a complex robot base machine first so that it could copy robots with higher precision.
It is always possible for robots to create robots that are more sophisticated than themselves.
Nationally important equipment such as industrial machines are all handmade by small craftsmen.
In fact, outside that world, a science fiction novelist once described that kind of low-function industrial robot in his work.
A series of production equipment such as furnaces and machine tools that can smelt ore are installed into the robot, so that it can eat the ore and give birth to robots at the same time.
In that case, robot defense should be an argument at all.
It is smaller than a large truck and adopts an eight-wheel drive structure. Even if it gets stuck in a swamp, it can get out of trouble with its weak power.
According to this science fiction novelist, it was that kind of robot that destroyed human civilization.
Therefore, when Yin Yunyi was setting up the project, Zhou Bingbing was not worried, and Wan Xuanyan was not laughing or crying.
Yin Yunyi later said that the price of the main battle robot is 60 square Xiaoyue coins, while the price of the heavy combat robot is 500 square Xiaoyue coins.
The test site is still a bit large, and it is possible to arrange an armored brigade and an infantry division for the robots to test.
The most conservative estimate is that seven main combat robots can fight against 12 smart tanks on the battlefield.
Its function is so weak that it's amazing.
Its full load weight is only less than 5 tons, and its maneuverability is much less flexible than a tank that can weigh between 8 and 10 tons.
That kind of industrial robot with few functions is actually equivalent to the mother machine outside the robot production industry.
Over time, I discovered that if we want to slowly improve human beings' self-rescue capabilities, we have to get started with industrial automation.
In that case, I have no reason to automate the production lines of those military factories.
However, due to the inappropriate shape, the difficulty of the linkage device, and the difficulty of drilling into the surface, I gave up this plan.