I ask you to build tractors, but you build rockets?

"What is this called? Destroying corpses and eradicating traces, the first murder and burial case on the moon?"

Fu Xiangjie took another deep breath of air through his nose under the mask. After he finished complaining, he continued to push the shovel in his hand forward, and poured the surface lunar soil mixed with black and white residue into the small cart next to him.

Next to him was Li Wei. This astronaut who should be considered the most senior astronaut in the country fully demonstrated his rigorous style at this time, looking around for possible remnants.

Deng Lei and Liu Ming are still packing up at Wutu Space Station, preparing to welcome the members of Tianmu 4. It was more than ten hours after they left that 14 caught fire and exploded.

According to the plan, the two astronauts first went to the space station to pick up and refuel the Jiuzhang, while the two astronauts stayed behind.

At that time, 14 and several other humanoid robots were charging outside the cabin, preparing to return to the underground cave for exploration and initial construction work, while the two remaining astronauts were staying in the cabin to sort out exploration data.

Judging from the playback of the camera footage, 14 was connected to a universal power supply port outside the living cabin. The power supply to the living cabin comes from a stable power supply system composed of a solar panel array and a nuclear power vehicle. The external power supply port of the living cabin is generally used for large equipment and Lunar rover charging.

14's already tattered spacesuit was instantly ripped open by the exploding lithium battery. However, the fireproof spacesuit fabric did not continue to burn. The robot just changed from standing to collapsing into a pile. The internal metal skeleton and other parts were in the space. The lithium battery inside the suit was melted, and the extremely high temperature after melting touched the spacesuit and slowly burned it again.

When the two astronauts received a warning from the power supply system and put on their space suits and went out to check, all that was left of 14 was a pile of charred remains covered in rags. The only complete part was the head. The limbs were also equipped with batteries and had long since been destroyed. It was badly burned.

Most of the power supplies in the residential cabin were turned off. After inspection, it was found that there were no major problems. The vacuum blocked the spread of heat. The charging cable was automatically disconnected when the fire broke out, and no further losses were caused.

Since the scene needed to be cleaned up as soon as possible, the two astronauts received orders to clean up the scene as soon as possible, collect the debris, seal it up and find an opportunity to send it back to Earth. As for the remaining humanoid robots with the same structure, they all went to sleep in the cave until the cause was investigated. .

Therefore, the hard work of "processing the scene" was once again handed over to human astronauts. In fact, in the past few months, every time they went out, they were followed by robots. Except for technical work, they only needed to give instructions to the robots, which was safe and convenient.

"Lieutenant Colonel Fu Xiangjie, I'm sorry to ask you to do this heavy work yourself."

"No, Fourteen, you have done a good job. The next body will be even more powerful."

"Thank you, I'm looking forward to my new body."

Well, although Fourteen was burned down, it was not dead.

"14" is an early Warrior 2 series robot. Although it is equipped with a native ternary chip manufactured at the base, it can provide highly intelligent services without being connected to the Internet. However, under normal circumstances, it is not only convenient to use it online, but it can also improve its thinking ability.

When 14 found that he could not save the fire, he simply uploaded himself to the central computer of the living cabin. He quickly came back to life under the operation on the ground. The conclusion of the lithium battery control system failure was also analyzed by himself. .

It temporarily succumbs to the computer in the habitation module. When a brand new robot is sent to the ground later, it will be able to move freely after its consciousness is transferred into it.

Astronauts do not need to regret losing a partner. Digital life is much tougher than humans.

Li Wei: "We should still send more explorers. If we don't consider accompanying humans and versatility, the capabilities of multi-legged robots are much stronger. There are not so many conditions for showing up, but they wear out faster."

Fu Xiangjie: "Come on, come on, Dawn 2 will deliver six Explorer IIs and four lunar motorcycles this time. We can also ride robots."

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"Optimus Prime, what did you see!"

"I saw a blue block and a red block in the basket. They were triangular and cylindrical respectively."

"Great, now I want you to categorize it!"

Boris tried his best to speak clearly, and then stared at the humanoid robot "Optimus Prime" standing in front of the table.

"Optimus Prime" slowly raised his robotic arm and naturally placed the two building blocks on the shelf next to them according to their shapes, corresponding to the shapes of the bottoms.

Seeing this set of actions completed smoothly, Boris relaxed slightly, and then introduced to NACA Deputy Director Jim:

"This is the humanoid robot we developed. It is equipped with MIT's latest artificial intelligence. It has strong self-judgment ability and flexible control, enough to carry out tasks."

Jim looked at "Optimus Prime" up and down, and he had to say that it looked very good from the outside. The surface smoothly reflected the original color of the metal, which was similar to something in a science fiction movie.

"Two billion dollars, is it the only thing besides the damn snake from before?"

"Uh... of course not. In fact, we have made breakthroughs in many key technologies and assisted in the development of active exoskeleton space suits, which will be available to astronauts soon."

Jim: "Let Optimus Prime move around for a while and give him an order to get the mop from the door."

Boris immediately obeyed and gave the instructions through voice. "Optimus Prime" almost didn't hesitate, swinging his arms and walked over quickly in a posture close to a half-squat, then grabbed the mop with both hands and held it up, and walked quickly again When I came back, my posture was quite stable.

In fact, this is the specialty of "Optimus Prime". The MIT Laboratory directly acquired Boston Dynamics before and developed it based on the existing foundation. The external posture is basically no problem.

If the space and ground are right, Optimus Prime can even do a backflip.

NACA initially started this project to compete with the "Explorer", but the MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory finally chose to take the humanoid robot route, and now it seems that the results are not bad.

Jim nodded in recognition of their achievements in the past two years, but obviously he still had considerable doubts about putting this thing into practical applications.

After all, the Explorer series can lift hundreds of kilograms of moon rock and run wildly on rough roads. If Optimus Prime sent it up, it would probably be cost-effective without an astronaut.

He just gave a few words of encouragement. Anyway, it was just a convenience to see the progress of the robot. The real purpose was to check JPL's Mars exploration mission.

NACA is not XAP. Xinyuan's detectors generally consider the versatility of building more than five or six identical platforms and a large number of accessories at one time. They can be used in different environments of the earth, moon, and Mars. Anyway, there is no shortage of transportation capacity. JPL does not have such treatment. .

Since the M incident resulted in the addition of two Mars probes, JPL is actually working overtime to produce satellites.

Moreover, the two rush-production satellites are not ordinary survey satellites, but have a variety of high-end equipment added like spy satellites, which is very troublesome to make.

Boris could only promise with a grimace:

"Give us another 15 days to at least complete the overall test, otherwise it will be a pile of scrap metal."

Jim patted him on the shoulder:

"I give you 20 days. They must be delivered to Cape Calaveral before May 10, and then we will launch immediately within 5 days, no later.

I hope you understand that our adversaries have put six giant rockets on the launch pad. "