This is a veritable era of great construction. Xiao Yu’s small spaceship will become a prairie fire, bringing the light of science and technology to this corner of the solar system, and eventually illuminating the entire planet.
The six robots started busy.
Xiao Yu has a clear plan to speed up the mining progress. The insufficient number of robots is a major limitation. Therefore, the top priority is not to build a base, but to build robots.
In order to better adapt to the extremely low temperature of -150 degrees below zero on Titan, as well as the special terrain and only about one-sixth of the gravity on Earth, Xiao Yu redesigned the new robot blueprint and smelted it with ore.
After the equipment collected enough raw materials, Xiao Yu built the first Titan-specific mining and refining integrated robot.
Smelting iron ore into steel requires a large amount of coal. As we all know, coal is the fossil of ancient trees on the earth, formed in a special environment. Xiao Yu does not think that he can find coal on Titan.
However, Xiao Yu had considered this situation before setting off from the earth, so he spent three months to develop a new set of steel-making technology, which only required enough fuel, as well as some special separation and reduction processes.
With other technologies, we can refine steel that is good enough, even better than the special steel on Earth.
This kind of robot is a robot that applies new steel-making technology. Xiao Yu named this kind of robot Saturn-1. The Saturn-1 robot is not a traditional humanoid robot, but a metal platform supported by four wheels.
There are several robots and detection equipment installed on one side of the metal platform, which looks like a strange-looking duck.
However, although it looks a bit ugly, on the special terrain of Titan, the efficiency is several times higher than the original old model robot.
Most of the ground on Titan is flat, and it only needs to be slightly hardened, which saves Xiao Yu time in building roads. Moreover, such ground is just suitable for the Saturn-1 robot to walk.
After the great success of the experiment, Xiao Yu took the time to build hundreds of more such robots, and then built some Saturn II robots according to different divisions of labor. Then, as the work required, he developed three to seven more robots.
There are five different types of robots, and the first six robots have been transferred into the spacecraft by Xiao Yu and are responsible for various operations inside the spacecraft.
In this way, there are a total of seven types of robots busy in the mine.
The robots Xiao Yu built are not intelligent robots in the true sense. In fact, with Xiao Yu's current technology, it is far from being able to build practical intelligent robots, let alone artificial intelligence.
Xiao Yu did not install a central computer in the bodies of these robots at all, but only installed a transmitting device and a receiving device, as well as various functional modules. All data collection was completed by detectors installed on the robots, and then
The signal is sent to the spacecraft through the transmitting equipment and processed by Xiao Yu. After processing, the next operation instruction is sent back to the robot, which is implemented by the robot through the functional module.
With Xiao Yu's current extremely powerful computing power, it is not a problem to control tens of thousands of robots at the same time, not to mention hundreds of robots. The advantage of this is that almost every robot can share Xiao Yu's wisdom, and
The collaboration and tacit understanding between each individual has almost reached a seamless level.
This is a true finger-arm control. Xiao Yu commands these hundreds of robots just like commanding his own arms, and it is extremely precise and will never make mistakes.
You can often see this scene. A Saturn VI robot collected a pile of hematite ore from the ground through screening, and then poured it toward the ground. Just as this pile of iron ore was poured out of the container,
But before it touched the ground, a Saturn-1 robot came over and caught the pile of hematite ore with its own body, without any of the ore being spilled on the ground.
This is the benefit of powerful computing power and accuracy. In the mine, hundreds of robots are working hard without making a single mistake.
It took Xiao Yu a month to build these hundreds of robots. This also included a few days of suspension due to rain. You know, rain is very frequent on Titan.
At first, Xiao Yu had the patience to wait for the accumulated water to slowly evaporate, but later Xiao Yu found that this was a waste of time. Anyway, there is unlimited methane replenishment on Titan, and the source of oxygen is not a problem, so Xiao Yu simply dedicated
A type of robot was developed. Every time it rains, it goes out with a huge flamethrower, spraying out flames of thousands of degrees Celsius, which turns a large pool of liquid methane into gas and evaporates almost instantly.
In this month, Xiao Yu has completed the construction of six robot parts production lines and an assembly workshop. As long as the raw materials are sufficient, if these production lines are operated at full capacity, almost twenty robots can be produced a day. Moreover, the parts production line will be slightly modified.
If we continue to do so, we can produce more types of robots with more diverse functions.
The number of robots was enough, and Xiao Yu started the next step of construction.
The content of this construction is to build a steel-making blast furnace.
The blast furnace that Xiao Yu wants to build is different from the blast furnace on the earth. The blast furnace on the earth requires a large amount of coke, and it is obvious that there is no coke on Titan. Xiao Yu's blast furnace is a combination of the latest
Steelmaking technology.
Xiao Yu's hard drive contains a complete set of information for building a blast furnace, and it is a modified blast furnace that does not require coal and can make steel as long as it has enough energy.
In order to build a steel-making blast furnace, Xiao Yu even built a crane-type robot. The crane-type robot is a big thing, no better than the small robots like Saturn 1 to 7. In order to build this big thing, Xiao Yu spent five days.
Thousands of tons of high-quality steel and more than half a month were consumed.
After building the foundation and laying various pipes, such as the feed inlet, slag outlet, air inlet, etc., Xiao Yu began the construction of the blast furnace.
When construction started, Xiao Yu discovered a problem. On Titan, at least in the areas that Xiao Yu had explored, it was difficult to find suitable insulation materials. After thinking for a long time, Xiao Yu gritted his teeth and simply gave up the insulation.
The thermal layer is directly equipped with an air cooling system.
You know, the wind on Titan has a temperature of more than 150 degrees below zero, and the air on Titan is very dense, even denser than on Earth. Xiao Yu tested it and found that the air cooling system was completely
I can't help but be very happy that the requirements can be met.
Pieces of polished steel plates were lifted by a crane-type robot and placed in the approximate position. Then another robotic arm lifted up a small robot to push the steel plates to the correct position. After the welding was completed, the next piece was started, and so on.
repeatedly.
Because the steel-making furnace has not yet been completed, Xiao Yu's current steel production relies entirely on a few special small machines brought from the earth. Although Xiao Yu has modified them, these machines can still operate without coal.
Steelmaking, but the output is hard to say. Faced with the increasing demand for steel, Xiao Yu's output is really pitiful.
During this period of time, Xiao Yu has reexperienced the feeling of waiting for rice to come out of the pot. The huge demand for steel is a large pot with boiling water. Just put the rice in and you can quickly make a pot of fragrant rice soup.
came out. However, Xiao Yu's steel production was like a rice field with poor yield, only willing to produce rice one by one, which made people anxious to wait.
It took a full month of work to complete the construction of this steel-making blast furnace. Looking at the huge furnace standing on the flat land of Titan, with a height of sixty meters, Xiao Yu sighed.
This steel-making blast furnace combines the two functions of iron-making and steel-making. After the iron ore enters, it is first reduced into pig iron, and then the pig iron enters another set of processes. After various smelting, it becomes steel.
As for its output, Xiao Yu made an estimate. If it produces ordinary steel and has enough raw materials, it can reach a daily output of one thousand tons. If it produces the highest quality steel that Xiao Yu can do, it can only reach a daily output of ten.
Tons of levels up.
However, what is needed to build the base frame is a large amount of ordinary steel. At most, some chromium-nickel alloy steel is used on the outside of the base to withstand the extremely cold temperatures on Titan.
The construction of the steelmaking blast furnace is completed, and at this time, the base construction really begins.
Xiao Yu did not plan to build the base at the iron mine, but chose a place about five kilometers away from here. Compared with here, the terrain and geology there are more suitable for building a large base.
Xiao Yu first commanded the fire-breathing robot to spray fire over the entire place with a radius of about one kilometer to remove all evaporable matter. Then he commanded the engineering robot to dig out countless trenches and pour the foundation.
, and began to direct other robots to produce large steel plates one by one, and then transport them there to start welding work.
Yes, Xiao Yu plans to build a base made entirely of steel. Because there are no raw materials for traditional building materials such as cement and masonry on Titan, there is a lot of steel.
With the completion of the No. 1 steel-making blast furnace, Xiao Yu's steel production capacity has been greatly strengthened. He has even started construction on three sides. While the robot production line is operating at full capacity, he is also building the No. 2 steel-making blast furnace on one side and constructing the base on the other.
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