novellhall Chapter 149 Intelligent Robots
Chapter 149 Intelligent Robots
Chapter 149 Intelligent Robots
"You don't want to engage in your machine tool, what kind of intelligent robot, General Manager Li, are you a little bit drifting?"
Before Zhong Cheng could answer, Zhao Wei said it first, and Fan Chengjun, an honest boy, was pulling his master's clothes.
Li is always used to Zhao Wei's temper, so he didn't care, and explained:
"The current situation of the machine tool factory, you have been away for a long time, you may be a little unclear, it looks good on the surface, but in fact there is a hidden crisis!"
Zhong Cheng couldn't help complaining, "Mr. Li, don't be alarmist, okay, the machine tool factory is not on Mars, so we still know what's going on."
"Zhong Cheng, don't worry, let me explain to you, and you will understand."
Mr. Li said calmly: "Now the machine tool factory has a huge spread, and there are only more than 3000 employees, which is not enough. However, the company recruits five or six hundred new graduates every year, and less than 100 are assigned to the machine tool factory. people."
"In order to improve the overall quality of the employees, the company does not allow recruits with a bachelor's degree or below. This is the only supplement for a year."
Zhao Weidao: "An increase of 100 people per year is already a lot, how many people do you want?"
"Old Zhao, you only see an increase of 100 people, but there are two to 300 retired employees in the factory every year. There is no way. A large proportion of the employees are old employees who entered the factory in the 80s."
"The total number of personnel has been greatly reduced with this entry and exit. Now the employees of the machine tool factory can't even guarantee one day of rest every week. How can we do it in the long run?"
Zhong Cheng reacted, "Do you want to develop intelligent robots to replace humans?"
Mr. Li slapped his thigh, "Zhong Cheng is still smart, he can see through!"
A black line appeared on Zhong Cheng's forehead, your flattery is too blatant, everyone wants it, okay?
Zhao Wei said disdainfully: "Smart robots are almost rotten now. If you are so rich, you can just pay for it. We don't have the time to spend on this crap!"
Mr. Li retorted: "If you regard the robotic arms, truss manipulators, or robots that can only talk a few words, dance, and perform Tai Chi in the factory as intelligent robots, then Just take what I said before for nothing!"
"Alas!"
Both Zhong Cheng and Zhao Wei became interested, and Zhong Cheng asked, "Then what kind of intelligent robot do you want to create?"
Mr. Li brightened his eyes and said excitedly: "The intelligent robot in my imagination must have at least three elements: one is the sensory element, which is used to understand the state of the surrounding environment; the other is the movement element, which reacts to the outside world; The third is the thinking element, based on the information obtained by the sensory element, think about what kind of action to take."
"These three are just the basic conditions. Such an intelligent robot must also have enormous strength, flexible movement, and strong learning ability. This is my ideal intelligent robot!"
"It's better to have a human form!"
Mr. Li's words sounded like a dream to Zhong Cheng and the others. Isn't it too avant-garde? This is a move from the intelligent robot in science fiction.
This is almost the same as a real person, even stronger than a real person!
Zhao Wei's mouth continued to fire, "Let's not talk about whether it can be manufactured. Does the machine tool factory need such an advanced intelligent robot?"
Zhong Cheng also frowned, and said seriously: "How much money is needed to develop and manufacture the intelligent robot you mentioned, just to supplement the hundreds of employees in the machine tool factory. How do you calculate this account?"
Mr. Li chuckled, "So, I plan to manufacture intelligent robots for sale."
"what!"
Zhong Cheng and the others were really shocked by Mr. Li's brain teaser this time.
"Currently, the business of the machine tool factory seems to be booming. In fact, it is very difficult to develop further. The domestic high-end machine tool market is only so big, and it is difficult to break into the international market at present. I am still young, so I can't just rely on my laurels!"
Mr. Li said it sincerely, but Zhao Wei obviously didn't sell it, "You are in your fifties, isn't it a bit too much to say you are still young?"
Zhong Cheng found that the conversation between President Li and Zhao Wei always got off topic. Zhao Wei had been useless under President Li for ten years, and he had too much resentment.
In fact, Mr. Li can't be blamed entirely. Zhao Wei also had some problems in his life. In addition, Zhao Wei's ideas were avant-garde at the time, but he couldn't produce actual results.
He quickly brought back the topic.
"Hey, Mr. Li, we are all engaged in technology. It's meaningless to talk about ideals. How to realize this kind of intelligent robot? Tell me your specific ideas. I'll see if there is any possibility."
Mr. Li picked up the boiled water on the table and took a big sip, cleared his throat, and said:
"The intelligent robot I envision can realize the first sensory element and collect surrounding images, sounds, smells, and vibrations. Is there any technical problem?"
Zhong Cheng thought for a while, and the current induction technology can indeed complete it very well.
"To realize the second element of movement, to react to the outside world, with the support of the Cangjie CNC system and the power provided by the Kuafu power battery, there is no problem in terms of strength and sensitivity, right?"
Both Zhong Cheng and Zhao Wei nodded. In fact, the two existing robots have done a relatively good job.
"Only the third element of thinking and learning ability is the bottleneck of intelligent robots at present. The current robots are at most instruction-type robots, which execute the action instructions written by humans in advance, which is far from intelligent."
Both Zhong Cheng and Zhao Wei knew that the most advanced robots released today are actually externally controlled robots.
There is no intelligent unit on the body of this robot, only the actuator and the sensing mechanism. It has the ability to use sensory information for information processing, control and operation.
But it is also controlled by an external computer, which has an intelligent processing unit to process various information collected by the controlled robot, as well as information such as various postures and trajectories of the robot itself, and then issue control commands to direct the robot's actions.
Even some of the so-called "interactive intelligent robots" that are currently in the limelight in the news only conduct man-machine dialogues with operators or programmers through computer systems to realize the control and operation of robots.
Although it has some processing and decision-making functions, it can independently realize some functions such as trajectory planning and simple obstacle avoidance, but it is still subject to external control.
The intelligent robot mentioned by Mr. Li should be an autonomous robot.
After design and production, the robot can automatically complete various anthropomorphic tasks in various environments without human intervention.
The body of an autonomous robot has modules such as perception, processing, decision-making, and execution, which can act and deal with problems independently like an autonomous person.
And there are no robots with learning ability even in the laboratory.
Mr. Li saw that Zhong Cheng and Zhao Wei agreed with his statement, and continued:
"I didn't have any ideas at first, but since the Nuwa industrial master machine was upgraded this year, I found that the Fuxi optical brain and the new version of the Cangjie CNC system are overkill when used on machine tools, and their capabilities have overflowed."
"I came up with an idea, if the powerful functions of these two are used in the control of the robot, it is not possible to create a real intelligent robot!"
"laugh!"
Zhong Cheng, Zhao Wei, and Fan Chengjun all gasped. Their understanding of the Fuxi optical brain and the new version of the Cangjie CNC system was still higher than that of Mr. Li, and they knew better about the powerful functions of the two combined.
Mr. Li's whimsical idea is really feasible!
(End of this chapter)