Chapter 840: Neural Bridging Breakthrough
Translator: _Min_ Editor: Rundi
The future development direction of the group was a broad topic.
In order to counter the threat from 20.5 light years away, the focus of Future Group’s development was definitely the universe. Even if Earth civilization was doomed to use “bows and spears” to fight against foreign visitors’ “guns and cannons,” he must at least sharpen the bows and spears.
As for the threat from within humanity…
Maybe it would be better to release some news at the right moment?
He was just uncertain if it would be counterproductive or not…
While Jiang Chen was about to fall asleep, Jean’s holographic image appeared on Jiang Chen’s hand and awakened him in an emotionless tone.
“Mr. President, Dr. Amos wants to see you.”
Jiang Chen rubbed his sleepy eyes and sat up in his chair, yawning.
“Amos? What is it?”
“According to him, the neural bridging technology seems to have made a breakthrough -”
Jiang Chen suddenly stood up from the chair.
“Neural bridging technology? The technology that connects the circuit boards through brainwaves and transplants the soul to the machine?”
Perhaps the understanding of the word soul was not profound enough. Jean took a second to a.n.a.lyze Jiang Chen’s words and then gave a positive answer.
“Yes.”
“Tell him to wait for me. I’ll go now!”
After saying this, Jiang Chen beamed out of the office to the elevator, pressing the b.u.t.ton for the ground floor. As the modern world’s first technology developed independently, he must personally witness its birth.
…
Amos was indeed a genius.
Even Lin Lin, who always had a bad mouth, wholeheartedly admitted this point. She appraised him as the genius who stood on the shoulders of giants but saw the landscape not seen by the giants.
Derived on the basis of neural connection, by adding a brainwave acquisition device to increase the amplitude, it could be remotely connected to the robot’s body as if the soul possesses the same body as the robot.
At this moment, Jiang Chen was standing in Dr. Amos’ laboratory and watching himself sitting in a chair and wearing a helmet.
Not through a mirror, but the robot’s electronic eyes.
“How does it feel?”
Amos watched “Jiang Chen” with eager eyes, and Jiang Chen suddenly had gooseb.u.mps… if the robot had gooseb.u.mps.
“Overall, it’s not bad…”
Looking at his metal hands, Jiang Chen moved his arms and fingers and then moved his legs, intrigued.
Almost the same as moving his own body. Although there was a big difference with the human body, in terms of flexibility alone, this mechanical body was no worse than the human limbs. The only flaw was that in the body of a robot, the whole person felt empty as if there was something missing.
Oh, and, because there was no tactile feeling, Jiang Chen found out during the test that the robot had poor control over its strength.
For example, reaching out and holding a cup, he wouldn’t be able to feel how much power he actually used and would accidentally break the cup. When he thought about hopping up, he would end up hitting the ceiling.
Later, under the guidance of Dr. Amos, Jiang Chen set a limit on the output power of each joint, which avoided making a fool of himself again.
However, if the parameters of every action must be set in advance, it would be a countless amount of trouble.
It seems that this “driver” of mechanical subst.i.tutes must be trained for a long time before that driver could skillfully use this mechanical body.
Immediately afterward, Jiang Chen under Dr. Amos’s instructions completed a series of relatively complex actions such as running, weight lifting, boxing, and shooting with a large number of experimental equipment.
While Dr. Amos was pleased to collect experimental data, Jiang Chen could not help but ponder.
For the application prospect of this mechanical subst.i.tute, he first through about construction of outer s.p.a.ce!
No need for wearing a s.p.a.cesuit, directly control the robot through the neural bridging technology and remote control the robot into s.p.a.ce to complete dangerous and complex work.
Although the cost of robots would be much higher than that of s.p.a.cesuits, it would be much safer and more efficient. The cost-effectiveness of using these robots in outer s.p.a.ce would still be quite high!
Objects moving in the universe have high relative movement speeds that are hard to imagine.
Even if a piece of sesame-sized meteorite debris slashed on the s.p.a.ce suit at a relative speed of several hundred Mach, the accident caused would be extremely severe. Only because human activity in s.p.a.ce was still not very frequent today, this issue has not been exposed.
The solution at the apocalypse was to increase the strength of s.p.a.ce suits so that typical meteorite fragments didn’t feel like anything on the body. After all, the chance of encountering meteorite debris at few hundred Mach was not much higher than winning a lottery ticket. It would simply be unlucky if that did happen.
However, it was undeniable that the use of neural bridging technology through a remote connection method was indeed feasible. The robot controlled by the human brain; by using AI instead of sending people to outer s.p.a.ce to perform dangerous and complex work that could not be completed would do wonders.
Another point was supply.
Until the s.p.a.ce elevator is completed, the cost of sending an astronaut to the sky was not a small figure. A person needs to eat and drink, and can’t live for too long in a gravity-free environment. The person must be changed every three months. Therefore, the more people in outer s.p.a.ce, the greater amount of resources demanded from Celestial Trade.
Currently, without the s.p.a.ce elevator, these people relied on rockets and landing capsules to go back and forth!
Affected by this, the number of astronauts who constructed the s.p.a.ce elevator in outer s.p.a.ce was very limited. Although intelligent engineering equipment a.s.sistance existed, many tasks still could not be done without humans. The progress of the project was slow.
However, if this thing could be used in outer s.p.a.ce construction, the situation would be completely different. These robots could stay for as long as they wished in outer s.p.a.ce, with only a solar charger, there would be no need for supplying missions.
Jiang Chen took off his helmet and he fixed his eyes on Amos, who was processing the data, and immediately asked.
“How long until you can have a finished product?”
“This is already a finished product, although it is only a first-generation product.” Amos picked up the robot and put it back on the stand next to the lab, and then patted its head with a smile, “Continued working hours can be as long as 24 hours. Although there are many flaws, but there will be no problems using it.”
“What is the cost of this robot?”
Speaking of cost, Amos embarra.s.sedly rubbed his messy hair.
“Ahem. After all, it is a first generation product, and it is purely hand-made… Well, if you don’t consider the research and developement costs, probably about 5 million US Dollar.”
Jiang Chen silently made a note in his heart.
It would certainly not be possible to throw bare robots directly into s.p.a.ce. In order to adapt to a specific working environment, specialized modifications would also be required. In so doing, a neural bridge robot that can build in s.p.a.ce should be around 10-20 million USD.
A possibility!
After making up his mind, Jiang Chen said immediately.
“Designing a machine that can be used in s.p.a.ce… What’s the name of this machine?”
“X-1 robot.” Amos added.
“Mhmm, I hope you can design an X-A1 robot that can be used in s.p.a.ce. Is there a way to do it?” Jiang Chen looked at Amos and said seriously.
“It’s not difficult in theory, but what about communication in s.p.a.ce?” Amos asked.
Upon hearing this question, Jiang Chen began to laugh.
“Haha, my friend, you forgot. We have quantum satellites!”
Amos slapped his head and suddenly caught on.
“I almost forgot.”
“How long have you been inside? You should be able to go on the internet.” Jiang Chen mocked.
“For some time now, haha.” Amos smiled awkwardly and said with a timid voice, “Going on the Internet … The Group’s database has more resources than the National Library. There is no need to go on the Internet.”
He was the kind of person that once he touches the experimental equipment, he would be in his own world.
But it was precisely because of his dedication to scientific research that he finally “saw the landscape not seen by the giants”.