"It's the sensors that just came in from Japan this afternoon, and the rest of the micro motors will arrive tomorrow. ”

Niu Xiaoqiang was taken aback: "It's so fast?"

Watson laughed quite smugly: "MIT's name is still very loud, and when the other party hears that MIT wants to procure, he will naturally not slack off." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang sighed: "Let's go to the laboratory." ”

Watson nodded, pulled out a magnetic card and swiped open the glass door of the lab. There were two security guards sitting inside, and they verified their identity information according to the regulations, and immediately let them go after confirming that it was correct.

Niu Xiaoqiang carried the wooden box on his shoulder and walked inside under the guidance of Professor Watson.

After walking for more than 20 seconds, Watson swiped the door of one of the laboratories with a magnetic card and introduced to Niu Xiaoqiang: "This is a special laboratory of the School of Physics and Mechanical Engineering, and the equipment in it is very complete. ”

Niu Xiaoqiang agreed, put down the wooden box, and walked around the laboratory.

The area of this laboratory is very large, and there are many high-end equipment in it, and the more Niu Xiaoqiang looks at it, the more he is excited, and he is eager to move all these equipment to the Asian Machinery Factory.

At present, Western countries are still implementing a technical blockade on China, and CNC machine tools with slightly higher precision will not be sold to China, let alone those high-end processing equipment.

Niu Xiaoqiang thought to himself: If these things can be sold to me, I dare to guarantee that the manufacturing level of the Asian Machinery Factory will rise several steps, but unfortunately, no matter how much money you give, people will not sell it.

Watson opened the wooden box with the assistance of Zhang Xiaolan, turned his head and saw Niu Xiaoqiang standing in front of a CNC machine in a daze, and couldn't help but be curious: "What are you doing?"

"Oh, nothing. ”

Niu Xiaoqiang turned around and took out the sensor in the wooden box: "Xiaolan, let's assemble the sensors first, and then connect them to the circuit after assembling them to see if there are any quality problems." ”

Zhang Xiaolan nodded happily and assembled it with Niu Xiaoqiang.

Professor Watson is not very good at this aspect, so he can only work on the sidelines.

The technical content of the signal sensor is not very high-end, but this equipment belongs to a more delicate type, so Zhang Xiaolan and Niu Xiaoqiang are very careful, for fear that the sensor will be damaged by too much strength.

It took more than three hours for the robot's signal sensing system to finally be assembled, and after testing, it was found that there were no problems with the sensing system.

Watson looked at his watch: "It's already past ten o'clock, that's all for today, let's continue tomorrow night." ”

Niu Xiaoqiang and Zhang Xiaolan all shook their heads, feeling that it was too early to call it a day.

Seeing that neither of them agreed, Watson smiled and said, "Okay, let's do it for two more hours." ”

In the next half an hour, Niu Xiaoqiang started the CNC machine tool and became familiar with the use of the CNC machine tool through the manual.

If you look at the actual situation, Niu Xiaoqiang doesn't need to spend so long at all. Unfortunately, this thing is too expensive, and Niu Xiaoqiang has to be careful and careful. Otherwise, if it is broken, it will be a lot of fun.

After thoroughly mastering the use of CNC machine tools, Niu Xiaoqiang picked up a metal material and began to practice practical operations.

This metal material is provided by the Faculty of Physics and Mechanical Engineering. According to Niu Xiaoqiang's idea, intelligent robots are only used to cheat money, and they do not need to be manufactured with super carbon steel, just use conventional metal materials.

In order to save production costs, Professor Watson got a batch of materials from the School of Physics and Mechanical Engineering, and Niu Xiaoqiang only needed to process them into the required parts.

After practical exercises, Niu Xiaoqiang was full of confidence and began to formally process the required spare parts.

In terms of machining, neither Professor Watson nor Zhang Xiaolan are very familiar with it, and the two can only stand on the sidelines and watch.

Niu Xiaoqiang fixed the material on the machine tool, set the parameters and stepped aside. He doesn't need to do anything about it, just monitor the operation of the machine.

He secretly sighed in his heart: it is worthy of high-end equipment, and it is easy to process, unlike domestic, which requires skilled technicians to control the processing accuracy at all times, and the slightest deviation will cause the material to be scrapped.

In terms of machining, the domestic labor is to make up for the lack of equipment, whether it is from the perspective of work efficiency or scrap rate, manual labor can obviously not be compared with high-end CNC machine tools.

Of course, some parts must be processed by hand, but the number of such parts is very scarce, and in large-scale industrial manufacturing, CNC machine tools are superior.

Watson couldn't help but ask, "Xiaoqiang, which part are you processing now?"

Niu Xiaoqiang's memory is very strong, and the size and specifications of all the parts are in his head, so he didn't even bring a laptop.

"Now it's the elbow part of the exoskeleton that is being processed. ”

"Oh, according to your estimates, how much time will it take to machine all the parts?"

"The total number of parts is 137, and according to the efficiency of the CNC machine, it will take about five days. ”

Watson nodded: "Can the rest of the assembly work be completed in two days?"

Niu Xiaoqiang estimated it and replied: "With Xiaolan's help, two days should be enough, but I'm not sure if it can run normally after the assembly is completed, in my opinion, the software is the key, professor, do you have confidence in yourself?"

It's not too difficult to get a machine to work, it's really hard to make the machine work according to your will. How do you manifest your will? The answer is to rely on the program.

For intelligent robots, the program is a very critical part, and if you want it to walk, you need to set the relevant parameters, which need to take into account a lot of problems.

For example, how to control the center of gravity, how to avoid obstacles, how to go up and down stairs, all of which need to be calculated with precision and then communicated to the robot through the program.

Robots themselves do not have human senses, and all their actions are done according to human instructions. Human instructions can only be communicated through programs, and they cannot complete them at the slightest mistake.

This is only the most basic walking ability, and it is also the basic function that Niu Xiaoqiang is willing to give to the robot. In the final analysis, this project is used to make money, and the so-called intelligent research is just a gimmick, Niu Xiaoqiang has no intention of in-depth exploration, otherwise if the robot is really favored by some institutions in the United States, he may cause unnecessary trouble.