Chapter 526: Mining robot

Ye Su walked directly to the workbench and stood beside the group of technicians to see what they were discussing.
This huge workbench is placed in the center of the laboratory, occupying a large area in the laboratory.
There are many technicians standing around the workbench, and they are discussing technical issues intensively.
A young technician is expressing his opinion. His voice is very loud, as if he wants to use this method to strengthen his tone.
"I think this kind of transmission design should not be used for this Mars mining robot. Although this transmission design has high power transmission efficiency, it is not stable enough."
"If the mining robot breaks down on Mars, there will be no maintenance conditions on Mars. Therefore, a conservative transmission design should be adopted and some power should be sacrificed to ensure the stability of the entire equipment."
A middle-aged technician standing next to him seemed to disagree with his point of view, and when he finished speaking, he immediately refuted it.
"What you said is really not wrong. If you want to have stronger power, you must sacrifice some stability, so that mining robots are indeed more prone to failure."
"But you have considered that if the power of mining robots is insufficient, the efficiency of mining will be greatly reduced. If you want to complete the scheduled tasks, you must increase the number of mining robots."
"This way we have to send more mining robots to Mars. You have to know how difficult it is to send things to Mars. If the mining robots are too inefficient, it is not as cost-effective as to send materials directly to Mars some."
The middle-aged man raised the issue of work efficiency with him. It seems that he has a completely different point of view from the young technician.
He believes that stability can be sacrificed in order to improve efficiency, and work efficiency is the top priority.
It turns out that the problem that these help technicians are discussing is the technical problem of mining robots.
If this time the Mars landing plan is successful, then Ye Su will build a simple base on Mars for the astronauts going to Mars later.
There are a lot of materials needed to build a base. If all are sent from the Earth to Mars, too many rockets are needed.
So Ye Su felt that he would get materials on Mars, and some simple metal materials would be mined from Mars.
But it is not easy to mine and smelt metals on Mars.
The problem of smelting metal was solved by Ye Su, and he had designed an integrated smelting device.
This device uses nuclear fusion as an energy source and can smelt all minerals into finished metal products.
It can also carry out some simple processing on these technical products and forge them into the desired shape.
In other words, with this integrated smelting device, you only need to put the minerals in to get the desired metal parts.
Upon hearing it, I knew that this integrated smelting device was very sci-fi, and it was not something that could be made on earth at all.
But Ye Su has completed this somewhat sci-fi thing, who called Ye Su completely different from ordinary humans.
This kind of installation took Ye Su a long time to complete. It can be said to be a technology that transcends the times.
Now with this device, it is possible to make some simple metal parts on Mars.
But with the integrated melting and forging device, not all problems have been solved.
They also need to mine on Mars to meet the mineral requirements of this device.
Even if Ye Su only went to collect those shallow mineral veins, that would be a difficult thing to do.
It is impossible to collect with human power. Astronauts go to Mars instead of doing mining.
So Ye Su needs a fully automatic mining robot that can mine on Mars by himself, and then transport these minerals back to the Mars base.
Ye Su handed this task to his technical team, and after a period of research, they already had some preliminary results.
But these mining robots are not perfect yet, so they still need some improvements.
Holographic projection technology is used on the workbench to project many models of mining robots.
These models are all designed by them, but the effect is not ideal.
Said to be robots. In fact, these mining robots don't want to be alone at all, so they are not humanoid robots.
These mining robots have all kinds of models, they all look weird, but none of them look like humans.
Robots are just a synonym, mining robots are only used for mining, there is no need to be designed to look like humans.
Some special shapes can increase the efficiency of mining robots, which are much more advanced than humanoid robots.
They are discussing the issue of improving mining robots, and it looks like they are now in trouble.
Another middle-aged technician also joined the discussion.
"However, if an unstable transmission system is adopted, although the power is greatly enhanced, the failure rate will also increase."
"Have you considered the problem of damage to mining robots? If the damage rate is too high, it will also reduce the efficiency of mining, and the efficiency of work will actually decrease."
From what he said, he also agreed with the view of the young technician at the beginning.
He believes that it is more important to ensure the stability of mining robots, even if it is worth sacrificing work efficiency.
After listening for a while, Ye Su understood what they were discussing. The focus of this argument was actually very simple.
That is whether mining robots prioritize work efficiency or equipment stability.
If you consider the stability of mining robots leisurely, work efficiency will be greatly reduced.
But if work efficiency is the priority, the failure rate of mining robots will increase, which will also affect the efficiency of mining operations.
This problem seems to be quite troublesome, so it has caused a controversy among these technicians.