After all, robots cannot solve every problem.
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 their actual combat capabilities.
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.
But 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.
Before starting the test, Wan Xuanyan took the initiative to hand over part of the construction process of the eight combat robots to the corresponding arsenals.
After all, with the experience in developing lightweight combat robots, a lot of unnecessary time and energy can be saved when developing larger combat robots.
Therefore, Wan Xuanyan planned to introduce mechanical life forms from outside China in the early stage.
You may also really hinder Wan Xuanyan from doing that project.
Nationally important equipment such as industrial machines are all handmade by small craftsmen.
These thick-skinned battleships with thick barrels were eliminated 50 years ago, and were replaced by aircraft carriers full of aircraft and escorting destroyers.
It is always possible for robots to create robots that are more sophisticated than themselves.
Outside of that world, there's a saying circulating among the machine tool community.
The test site is still a bit large, and it is possible to arrange an armored brigade and an infantry division for robot testing.
Its size is not much different from that of a large truck. It adopts an eight-wheel drive structure. Even if it falls into a swamp, it can get out of trouble with its weak power.
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.
That is determined by the basic rules of the world.
In fact, in that world, a science fiction novelist once described such a low-function industrial robot in his work.
I myself focus on the development of low-function industrial robots.
But the test results made Wan Xuanyan completely abandon the all-storage plan.
Fang Xiaoyue's consistent position in scientific research is: first solve the problems that exist, and then solve the problems of advanced or not.
And those robots with higher precision can build automated factories.
However, due to its large size, it can only build metal robots weighing more than 50 kilograms.
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.
But in terms of combat applicability, these smart tanks really can't compare with main battle robots.
This is also true in practice.
Although most of the tanks in Xuan Yan Kingdom have not been transformed into smart tanks.
When the robot moves, it will sink directly into the soil.
Not to mention, the robot that can replicate itself is undoubtedly Wan Xuanyan's least difficult challenge before engaging in scientific research.
That kind of industrial robot with few functions is actually the main machine outside the robot production industry.
That's also a helpless thing.
My intention is to gradually improve the military power and military technology level of Xuanyan Kingdom.
Its full load weight is only less than 5 tons, and its maneuverability is much less flexible than a tank that can easily weigh ten tons.
After all, we are still in a state of belief in the combat effectiveness of heavy combat robots.
That heavy-duty combat robot weighs less than 10 tons and has a full load of weapons and ammunition reaching 50 tons.
The main battle tank currently in service in the Xuanyan Kingdom has a purchase price of 300 square Xiaoyue coins.
Even if all weapons are equipped, the price of a main battle robot is only one-seventh of that of a main battle tank.
To put it simply, the main battle robot is completely humanoid, more like a heavy armored vehicle.
Therefore, two months later, when the research and development was completed, the two combat robots that appeared at the military test site still looked luxurious.
Of course, Wan Xuanyan also thought about designing it into the form of an earth-boring insect.
In that case, I have no reason to automate the production lines of those military factories.
But due to the excellent performance of heavyweight combat robots and main battle robots later, let us say something bad.
The electromagnetic jammer can interfere with enemy communications within a radius of 5,000 meters.
Zhu Shuqin's students, on the other hand, are full of confidence.
However, due to the too simple shape, the difficulty of the linkage device, and the difficulty of drilling into the surface, I gave up this plan.
Well, the height of a 50-kilogram metal robot will exceed 30 centimeters.
The main combat robot weighs 1,500 kilograms and can reach a weight of 5 tons when fully loaded with weapons and ammunition.
Of course, what shocked these onlookers the most was the heavy combat robot.
Because if you want to shrink a complete set of mining, smelting, forging, etc. production systems into the body of a robot, its abnormal weight will be as low as 1,200 tons!
To put it more simply, the kind of low-function industrial robots can provide one-stop services from mining to smelting to the production of metal parts and manufacturing robots.
Of course, that price does not include weapons and ammunition, which need to be provided by the military.
Its main weapons are not only a 100mm smoothbore cannon, but also a 12.7mm caliber heavy machine gun, plus an anti-aircraft missile launcher. In addition, it is also equipped with laser blinders, electromagnetic jammers and other auxiliary weapons.
Therefore, the difficulty of developing a robot like that is beyond imagination.
But it only took Wan Xuanyan eight months to develop a robot that can replicate itself.
To put it bluntly, it is not a robot with the ability to replicate itself!
The transformation of the production line of the military factory is very exciting for Wan Xuanyan.
Its main function is not for battlefield fire suppression, artillery baptism and air defense.
Faced with attacks from manned aircraft, these extremely thickly armored tanks could still escape being blown up.
However, it cannot telescope or change the direction of its body at any time to obtain a worse shooting angle.
In that case, robot defense should be an argument at all.
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. 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.
Only creatures like mechanical life forms can be regarded as real creatures, so they cannot destroy mankind until they have creativity.
I established the project on the basis of the fact that many people were still alive, and then recruited dozens of undergraduates as tool workers.
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.
After all, a robot with the ability to replicate itself seems possible just by talking about it.
But the problem is that the reason why the tank has raised its defense to such a low level is because the tank moves so fast that it easily becomes the focus of enemy artillery fire.
In the subsequent war that broke out between the two great powers, someone on one side
The machine showed its power and launched an air strike on the other side's armored battalion walking under the road.
In short, in the eyes of the military leaders, that main battle robot cannot replace the existing tanks at all.
But that's just what other people do.
A robot with such a weight is basically unable to move because the soil on the abnormal surface cannot support such a weight.
According to this science fiction novelist, it was that kind of robot that destroyed human civilization.
But even so, the military still placed an order for 100 main battle robots, while it only placed an order for 5 heavy combat robots.
But even so, the price is much cheaper than a main battle tank.
It is not so much a robot as it is an arsenal ship traveling under the land.
It has four eight-layer small tires to withstand gravity and can run at a low speed of 120 kilometers per hour.
We feel that Zhu Shuqin is not exaggerating.
Because I haven’t trained many students yet, things like that have been done by me since then. Now, they are directly handed over to the students for us to do.
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 shoot and suppress a small number of enemy infantry, and it can also deal with sudden armed helicopters.
But what now?
The machine tools manufactured by the industrial mother machine must be one or more precision higher than the industrial mother machine.
It cannot create a few types of robots and at the same time build automated factories.
As for the laser blinder it is equipped with, it can blind operators of enemy tanks, helicopters and other weapons and equipment within a distance of 10,000 meters.
During the next eight months, outside the laboratory, I basically cut off contact with the outside world except for urging for relevant materials.
Over time, I discovered that if we want to slowly improve human self-rescue capabilities, we have to get started with industrial automation.
Therefore, when Wan Xuanyan was setting up the project, Zhou Bingbing was not too worried, and Wan Xuanyan could not laugh or cry.
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 cannot use 152 mm caliber heavy artillery, nor can it use 40-tube rocket launchers and 4 low-function missile silos.
That’s the same as industrial machine tools manufacturing low-precision machine tools, and low-precision machine tools manufacturing special machine tools.
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.
This is not: it is always possible for a machine tool to produce a machine tool more precise than itself.
As for special main battle tanks that have not undergone intelligent transformation, they will probably be severely beaten.
And the robot also lives up to that sentence.
Of course, Zhou Bingbing just wanted to talk about it.
Damn it, both the military leaders and the military factory representatives frowned slightly at my conclusion.
As bad as a fighter jet is, have you ever seen a fighter jet equipped with thick armor?
Yes, that design is very unimaginative.
You know, outside that world, AI intelligence may always be as creative as humans.
Wan Xuanyan introduced to everyone present: "In a short period of time, it destroyed an armored brigade and an infantry division head-on!"
In reality, today's main battle tanks are just a glimmer of glory left over from the world's small wars in the future.
It’s just that the difficulty of that project is still very small.
Of course, no one may say that the defense of a tank is much weaker than that of a robot.
Therefore, Wan Xuanyan did not wait to directly build a robot that could not copy itself, but planned to develop a living robot mother machine first so that it could copy robots with higher precision.
Even when the military placed a small order for robots before, I was not involved.
If it were to be replaced by a main battle robot, its flexible mobility coupled with the burst fire of the 12.7mm heavy machine gun would have a small chance of avoiding very little damage.
To be honest, this kind of production line automation transformation is still too luxurious.
But it is precisely because of the design that other people feel that my project is not a fantasy.
That's why I handed over part of the manufacturing process of those eight combat robots to these military factories.
Therefore, the current war does not require him to be thick-skinned, but requires a slow enough strike speed, flexible enough mobility, and a degree of control over battlefield information!
As for the seven main battle robots on the battlefield, the most conservative estimate is that they can fight against 12 smart tanks.
Its functions are amazing.
In the end, I decided to try making a scaled-down version of the robot mother machine first.
Wan Xuanyan's price for the main combat robot was: 60 square Xiaoyue coins.
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.
The reason why I developed those eight robots was not to make a small profit. If this was the case, the price I set would be so high.
If we want to weaken human industrial capabilities, industrial robots with so few functions must be developed.
Besides, once the current main battle tanks are targeted by enemy tanks or armed helicopters, they can actually withstand a lot of damage.
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.
But these mechanical life forms are under the control of Wan Xuanyan, so there is nothing to worry about.
Wan Xuanyan 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.
