After a bloody battle, Duke had to stay in silence and temporarily avoid possible killing actions by his opponents. This situation like a bird in a cage made Duke understand that the research on pickup robots must speed up the process.

Fortunately, there has been enough knowledge and technology accumulation in this area. Whether it is research in driver control, sensor data fusion, image processing, pattern recognition, neural networks, etc., or related various acoustic and photoelectric instruments, Duke has gained a lot of knowledge reserves from the drone project and the MIT robot project.

Now, Duke only needs to find a reasonable reason to start doing this. At this time, Duke now has huge resources and shows his advantages. After thinking for a few days, he happened to take advantage of this opportunity to launch an ambitious plan to develop autonomous intelligent robots.

Duke's goal is to develop a robot with certain independent activities that can accept instructions and complete these instructions in complex environments, largely replacing people's work in dangerous environments. For example, performing submarine detection or inspection and maintenance of underwater facilities, conducting dangerous battlefield ground reconnaissance, mine clearance, etc.

If these can be done, Duke can even create combat robots that can undertake most combat tasks in the future. This is of course an extremely exciting goal for the military.

If someone else proposes to do this project, if you want to obtain a lot of arguments and explanations, you will be more likely to be ridiculed for overestimating your ability and being too ambitious.

But for Duke, these are just a slight effort. He has authority and power, and he also holds huge R&D funds, which allows him to quickly mobilize relevant resources to assist in the problem. When the robot project was established, even the group of experts who studied the lunar rover with Duke earlier received news that he was very interested in the Duke project and hoped to work together to solve the problem.

Because everyone knows that even if all the functions that Duke imagines cannot be realized, even if this project only achieves half of them, it will be a huge breakthrough for the domestic intelligent robot field. There will be a lot of room for application for both military and civilian use. Many technologies that have been breakthroughs in robots will have a great promotion effect on projects like lunar rovers.

Now no one knows that following Dr. Duke is almost a guarantee of success. He used operating systems in the early stages, then did nuclear power research, and then used drones and avionics software in the military system. Everything where Duke appeared was simply invincible. Moreover, Dr. Duke has always been willing to invest in research costs, and everyone will not be troubled by the shortage of R&D funds.

With such impressive performance and reputation, let alone the domestic science and technology industry, even scientists from some foreign disciplines can hope to find Duke to study something. Before he knew it, Duke has now become a famous golden signboard in the science and technology industry.

With such appeal, the members of the Duke Research Robot Project took less than a month to form a research team composed of hundreds of elite scientific researchers from different disciplines in China.

Duke is not idle either by leading such an elite research team. He sorted out some achievements of the MIT robot and lunar rover and drone project, and quickly formed the prototype of an autonomous intelligent robot. This new robot uses 4 G2 cores to control the brain, has powerful computing power, and the image recognition technology transplanted from the drone allows him to easily have important functions such as recognition paths that were originally difficult to achieve, and automatic walking of obstacles.

Of course, this prototype robot still has many problems, such as Duke, who can support power supply for long-term work and is unable to find a lasting power source for work, misses Bileme's thermonuclear reaction energy supply method, which can provide a long working time with very little nuclear fuel.

Unfortunately, this technology is currently impossible to implement on Earth.

Even with the special catalytic principle of the Lotus Drill Generation, Duke can achieve only the S1 Lotus Drill Small Power Source. Although the volume is much smaller than that of an ordinary nuclear reactor, the carrier still needs to be on board a ship of thousands of tons. No matter how small it is, it is not easy to achieve. In the short term, Duke will not expect nuclear fission technology to make another breakthrough.

As for the nuclear reaction batteries manufactured through the principle of radioactive decay, although they have been used for a long time, their power is too small. The Mars rover that the Americans spent $2.5 billion to research, the nuclear reaction batteries used on them are only more than 100 watts, which is not even effective enough to drive the 4 G2 cores on Duke's intelligent robot.

Moreover, this electromagnetic radiation is very strong and it is difficult to effectively shield it. It doesn’t matter if you use it on a desolate planet like Mars where you can’t even find a drop of water. However, Duke is mainly used on Earth, and there are many opportunities for social contact, so it is not very suitable to use this power.

Therefore, Duke still needs to study in this power selection. The high-energy battery pack currently used temporarily can not support it for a long time and cannot meet Duke's goals. If technological breakthroughs cannot be made in the short term, it can only be used as verification power.

If it is only used on land, the power can also be placed on the power generation of internal combustion engines. In this regard, Oriental Power has accumulated a lot of accumulation and can undertake the task of studying this special internal combustion engine. However, using internal combustion engines is not easy to control volume and noise. Obviously, this power supply power is also unreliable for robots for reconnaissance purposes.

It is even more unreliable to use underwater, so Duke's attention has just been on fuel cells. Now fuel cell technology is relatively mature and has many successful applications, from driving laptops to driving cars, Boeing can even be used to drive small aircraft.

But most of these technologies are at the laboratory level, not mature enough and low-cost.

There is not much accumulation in this area in China, and the gap is still a bit large from the current level of the world. However, Duke intuitively believes that this thing is more reliable than the previous nuclear reaction batteries or high-energy batteries.

As long as Duke determines the direction, he will naturally invest and implement it vigorously. However, this time, there are few relevant talents that can be provided in China. Duke failed to respond to the call and had to explore such experts internationally at a high salary. For international cooperative research, this project is not suitable for military industry. Duke simply placed this project under the Dongfang Qiyang Automobile Research Team.

Duke's robot plan has been completed since then, and just a little while, 2018 has passed in a flash.
Chapter completed!