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"Haha! Boss, you have too much vengeance! I just complained during the last meeting, why do you still remember this thing!" Hearing Lei Tiantang said, Deep Space Lab’s The general manager Zhang Hanxiu couldn't help but chuckled.

The people around were also amused. To be honest, although Lei Tiantang is now the richest man in the world, his identity has not affected the harmonious relationship between the company’s employees and him. Everyone will not because he is his own boss. The idea of ​​what needs to be kept away.

On the contrary, because of his technical strength, everyone will admire him. After all, an expert boss is a better boss for employees of a large technology research and development company, so they joke with each other when they are together. No one will find this strange.

After a group of people arrived in the test building of the lunar landing detector, Zhang Hanxiu began a brief introduction to the same packaged'Lunar Pathfinder' spare detector.

"Boss, our lunar probe is technically much better than our country's series of lunar landing probes. This is one of the reasons why our company's various material technologies and designs are considered better.

On the other hand, our lunar probes are much larger than theirs. This is mainly because our company’s rockets have a stronger carrying capacity and can carry more mass to the moon.

The larger size allows us to install more detector components for our lunar probe, making it more functional, performing more detection tasks, and conducting more lunar surface experiments at the same time."He introduced while letting Yuan project the test images of the'Moon Palace Pathfinder'.

"Although it is equipped with wheels, how do I think it feels like an insect crawling? Is it my illusion?" Keira asked curiously as she watched the various movements of the detector in the image.

She is a girl who grew up on a farm and is engaged in archaeology, so she has a deep understanding of insects, so after seeing the movement of the detector, she instinctively felt that its movement seemed to mimic the way insects walk.

"You don't feel wrong! I said that our design is better, but it's not just talking about it. Our detector does use the design concept of insect bionics. It also uses insects to crawl and walk. Design ideas.

And our Mars Landing Probe also uses this aspect of bionic design!Zhang Hanxiu affirmed Keira's conjecture with a smile, and then he briefly introduced the reason for this design.

We must know that insects are an important part of the endless nature. They have lived on the earth for at least 300 million years. There are now more than 1 million kinds of insects in the world, accounting for 2/3 of all animals.

Insects are ubiquitous in our lives, and their distribution range is extremely wide, from the equator to the poles, from the ocean, the river to the desert, and even to the highest peak in the world-Mount Everest, down to a few hundred meters deep soil, the earth There are insects in almost every corner.

Because insects have extremely strong environmental adaptability, scientists hope to imitate them to make machine insects to detect various complex environments on other planets.

It has been the unremitting pursuit of these scientists to make probe cars with good mobility, many functions and low power consumption.How can we make a detection robot with better performance?

Scientists in the laboratory thought of the super adaptability of insects. Some researchers plan to learn from insects and apply this feature of insects to the robot insects that will be developed.

Of course, in order to let Kaila, a layman, understand the research work in this area more clearly, Zhang Hanxiu also explained the difficulties in the research. At the same time, the introduction also allowed the synchronous projection to show the relevant research process.

In order to develop better lunar probes and Mars probes, the company's laboratory has a laboratory specializing in biological robots. This research team mainly develops a robot walking probe with a more stable walking method.

In its early days, it looked almost exactly like a spider, but its size was enlarged many times.In the laboratory, the scientists first used slow-motion video to carefully analyze the spider's behavior, and then copied all the insect's joint structure to the robot.

The legs of the robot walking detector are divided into 5 parts. The compressed air is used to promote the operation of the robot's "leg joints". However, this design is very expensive and complicated. Any failure of one part may paralyze the entire robot.

Therefore, scientists in the laboratory intend to simplify this robotic crawler and make another robot.Replace 8 legs with 6 wheels with wheels. Each "leg wheel" is surrounded by 3 "calves", which looks like a notched wheel.

As the wheels rotate, the three feet on each leg wheel touch the ground in turn, pushing the robot forward.In this way, the robot can drive 6 leg wheels to run simultaneously with only one engine, and the complexity is greatly reduced.

This robot also has two tentacles on the front. When encountering an obstacle, these two tentacles can help it determine whether to bypass, climb over, or drill over.

The robot takes the axis of the two leg wheels in the middle as the dividing point and divides it into the front and rear parts. When it encounters a large obstacle, it can also lift the front body like a spider, and the four rear legs are responsible for providing forward power. , The front two legs are responsible for climbing up-these characteristics make it very similar to the movement of the spider,

However, traditional machine detection vehicles have other disadvantages.For example, people are on the earth, through remote remote control of the probe car, this will make each command from issuing to returning, there is a 40-minute delay in the middle.

Therefore, it is very important to develop robots that can be fully "self-controlled". It is almost impossible to achieve advancement through the use of precise programming to control 6-legged machine insects, so the research work of these insect bionics detectors But it was not simple at all, and it failed many times before the subsequent design work was finally completed.

After reading the design process of the landing detector, Kayla also understands why her boyfriend needs to spend so much money on the laboratory investment. The various failed experiments alone will cost a lot of money. Without sufficient funds and talents, it is absolutely impossible to complete the design work of these detectors in such a short time. Success has never been so simple.