I can upgrade the shelter-Chapter 637 - 535: The Researcher’s New Attempt

For the researchers at the research center, the birth of Zhu Luan undoubtedly brought them both pain and joy.

The appearance of a new mech body meant they had to undertake a massive amount of research work. Despite Qin Lan's active cooperation with the researchers in testing and analyzing Zhu Luan, the sudden doubling of workload left the researchers, who hadn't completed Lian Bailong's analysis work, utterly exhausted.

However, the emergence of the new mech body also filled them with excitement, especially the optics digital camouflage invisibility system installed on Zhu Luan, which made these researchers drool. This thing was truly enticing!

Even though everyone wore heavy dark circles around their eyes due to overtime, they persevered by requesting coffee and tea leaves from Tang Tang, enduring a week to understand the operational mode of this seemingly formidable camouflage system.

The system itself wasn't a very complex piece of technology. It involved cameras installed on various parts of the mech body to capture the surrounding environment, then computations and analyses by onboard computers, and finally displaying in the form of digital camouflage on the mech body's surface. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢

This was indeed not a complex system, given the current technology possessed by the country; creating something similar wasn't impossible, but it would only result in covering the target surfaces that required invisibility with a layer of LCD screens, lacking any defensive capability.

Unlike Zhu Luan, which could directly display on the armor without impacting the invisibility system even when attacked, and still change colors in real-time to achieve optimal concealment effects like a Finnish sniper in the snow or a Viet Cong in the woods.

In fact, how to display digital color blocks on the armor surface was the main focus for the researchers, but this wasn't something they could resolve quickly.

After a week of overtime, they merely understood the working principle of Zhu Luan's digital camouflage. Replicating it is not an easy task.

Even with a prototype sample for reference, the significant technological gap made it impossible to carry out reverse engineering.

So eventually, though the researchers understood the entire optics digital camouflage invisibility system's principle and attempted to create something similar, the project was ultimately listed as a long-term rather than a short-term breakthrough endeavor.

Besides the optics digital camouflage, which looks attractive but is unattainable in the short term, there is another feature that the researchers found very appealing, a project they felt could yield results in the short term.

What they valued was Zhu Luan's auxiliary unit, the mechanical hunting dog.

More precisely, what these researchers admired was the self-sufficient artificial intelligence within the mechanical hunting dog, not the mechanical hunting dog itself.

If it were just the mechanical hunting dog, although like the optics digital camouflage, they couldn't produce a product matching the original effect, they could still create something similar.

Especially after Chen Xin created Titan, the country gained many valuable experiences and knowledge in mechanics, significantly improving technological levels.

For Flame Country, creating mechanical constructs like the mechanical hunting dog is no longer an impossibility. The challenge lies in whether they can reach the original level established by Chen Xin.

On the mechanical hunting dog, its installed artificial intelligence surpasses the structure or design itself and outshines the onboard weapons and auxiliary equipment.

Before the disaster, artificial intelligence was already one of the advanced cutting-edge research projects worldwide.

Although there were results, those so-called artificial intelligence were more artificial stupidity, failing to satisfy the researchers' appetite.

In part due to hardware limitations, where processor speeds didn't meet the requirements for running artificial intelligence, and also due to insufficient development to write an intelligent artificial intelligence program.

But the artificial intelligence on the mechanical hunting dog was different; though test results confirmed that it was merely weak AI, it was mature and fully functional, possessing thinking and self-judgment capabilities, able to handle complex battlefields without the need for real-time remote control like ordinary robots.

This "smart" artificial intelligence naturally made the researchers envious; software programs aren't as difficult to crack as hardware. As long as they can unpack the program, and sacrifice some programmers' hair, they can understand and replicate it.

Even if the program code was difficult to comprehend, merely copying the entire program is simpler than reverse engineering a device to replicate it.

Ultimately, since program's underlying code remains binary of 0s and 1s, there's no situation where they can't understand it; at worst, they don't grasp the programming language used or the logic of writing the program, requiring time to analyze.

So upon obtaining consent from Chen Xin and Qin Lan, they dismantled the mechanical hunting dog's host computer and copied its artificial intelligence for research purposes.

It must be said that sacrificing hair yielded results; they successfully rewrote a new program using the copied artificial intelligence, installing it on a robot they assembled themselves, which eventually began autonomously cleaning.

At first glance, isn't this thing just like a vacuuming robot? It seems not that impressive.

However, this robot is conceptually different from vacuuming robots; one runs on predetermined programs, whereas the other possesses autonomous decision-making abilities.

Firstly, it independently scans and analyzes the dirtiness of the ground. Based on the different dirt types, it autonomously selects whether to use a broom, mop, or other cleaning tools for cleansing.

These cleaning tools don't need to be installed on the robot, simply placed in visible locations; the robot can independently identify them and retrieve them for cleaning.

It's safe to say this is far more advanced than those seemingly clumsy vacuuming robots, which frequently get stuck in inexplicable places.

And this was merely a simple attempt by these researchers.

Having made the initial success of enabling robotic cleaning, these researchers gradually became bolder, planning to try something they've long wanted to – but were hindered by immature artificial intelligence technology – to realize.

That is, to develop a truly innovative robot.