Chapter 83: The cost of using and producing the robotic arm (Part 2)
Shen Yang is in charge of Weiruan's technology R&D department and artificial intelligence research department, mainly promoting the company's mid- and long-term overall technology strategy, policies, and forward-looking research and development work.

Because no matter which of the artificial intelligence Jarvis and the robotic arm that Lin Feng claims to have developed is real, it will undoubtedly have a profound impact on the future.

So when Weisoft President Nadella was preparing to ask someone to go to Xingtu Technology to check out the situation, Shen Yang volunteered to come in person.

At this time, facing the question from Shen Yang, the vice president of Weiruan, Lin Feng pondered for a moment and then explained in front of the experts, reporters, representatives and millions of netizens on Bilibili and Douyin live broadcast rooms:

“The cost of this robotic arm is very high, both in terms of purchase cost and operating cost, for three main reasons.

The first aspect is supercomputer computing power and traffic fees.

Because artificial intelligence Jarvis needs to analyze the surrounding environment based on cameras and various sensors for real-time control, this requires the computing power of supercomputers and a large amount of traffic fees.

Consider the purchase and construction costs of the supercomputer as well as the daily maintenance and use costs and depreciation costs.

Add to that the traffic fees used every moment, and these things will naturally be converted into the usage price in the end.

The second aspect is the materials.

Because our robotic arms use high-performance alloys, high-end sensors, high-performance chips, etc., which are relatively expensive, it is inherently difficult to reduce their costs.

The third aspect is processing and assembly.

Let’s not talk about high-end sensors, high-performance chips and other things, let’s just talk about the metal processing of high-performance alloys.

Because they all use high-performance alloys and require very high precision, the processing and production costs are naturally more expensive.

So after adding up all the costs, the Xingtu Z1 robot arm has very high production costs, material costs, and even daily use costs, making it difficult to use in large-scale industrial production. "

After hearing Lin Feng's words, millions of netizens in the live broadcast room breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, this thing is very expensive and cannot be popularized on a large scale. Otherwise, if the robotic arm developed by Lin Feng is real, many people will be forced to lose their jobs.

"Is it like this?"

Weiruan Vice President Shen Yang nodded.

What Lin Feng said was also within his expectations. After all, although the multi-joint robotic arm has many advantages, it has too many joints, so its control accuracy is too poor.

If you want to improve control accuracy, it will definitely require more expensive material and production costs, which is why so many top companies in the world have not entered this field.

The truth is that even if it is developed, it will be useless because the production cost is too high. It would be better to spend some money and recruit more skilled experienced workers instead of this experience.

However, when Shen Yang nodded, the expression on the face of Jiang Lan, an expert in the field of intelligent manufacturing, became unhappy.

He was very happy when he heard Lin Feng talk about processing control accuracy and realized that it could really achieve the level claimed.

At this point, we hear that both the manufacturing cost and the use cost are very high, which means that the robotic arm can only serve a niche field at best.

It is naturally a regrettable fact that there is no way to completely usher in the era of intelligent manufacturing.

"Okay, ladies and gentlemen, let's start the test. First, we will test the laser engraving process.

In order to prevent you from accusing us of fraud, you experts can discuss the task objectives of laser engraving, and then give our artificial intelligence Jarvis the processing tasks. "

When Lin Feng said this, he was quite confident.

Although he does not have a true artificial intelligence Jarvis, the native software of the fourth-generation Pen Master is quite powerful and versatile.

Finally, with his modifications, it would be a very simple matter to use it to produce and process anything.

"it is good."

Hearing this, several experts started to discuss with each other. Considering that there was only one robot in front of them and it couldn't make anything too complicated, they decided to do a laser engraving task.

This laser engraving task is to carve a five-pointed star with different depths.

They only need to measure the length and depth of each corner of the five-pointed star to know whether the accuracy of laser engraving reaches between 0.02mm and 0.04mm.

Lin Feng naturally had no objection to this, because the laser engraving task was within the processing capabilities of the robotic arm and control software.

So after they decided on the size requirements, Lin Feng took the task paper and left.

The reason for leaving was that he claimed to transmit the mission objectives to the artificial intelligence Jarvis, so that the artificial intelligence Jarvis could perform automated carving according to the mission requirements.

In this regard, the artificial intelligence experts on site found the need to manually input data a bit surprising.

However, considering that the processing field is different from chatting and answering questions, everything to be processed is so complicated that artificial intelligence cannot guess human thoughts, and it is normal that processing requirements need to be input manually.

Fortunately, Lin Feng did not keep them waiting for long. In less than a few minutes, Lin Feng returned to the workshop with a thin metal plate in his hand.

Place the thin metal plate in the specified position, and at this time, the voice of the fake artificial intelligence program Jarvis also sounded.

"Sir, may I start, please?"

"let's start."

As Lin Feng spoke, the robotic arm began to work automatically, and the laser head at the front end of the arm continuously emitted blue lasers to bombard the thin metal plate.

During this process, experts, representatives from other companies, and reporters were watching the robot arm's work.

During this process, they would occasionally use their arms to block the dazzling purple light.

After all, the laser is still very dazzling, and staring at it for a long time may blind your eyes. As for how long this laser engraving takes.

The laser engraving process actually takes quite a bit of time.

Because it not only needs to make a five-pointed star pattern, but also the depths of the five corners of the five-pointed star are different.

So even though the task is just to carve a five-pointed star, the actual task is still very stressful and takes a long time.

However, the people at the scene and netizens in the live broadcast room did not seem impatient, but waited patiently for the robotic arm that kept flashing the dazzling blue laser.

At this time, when the camera in the live broadcast room turned to him, Lin Feng also smiled and said:

“In fact, using a robot arm for flat engraving is not the best choice, because our robot arms are better at engraving three-dimensional objects, and engraving flat panels is a bit of a waste of resources.

If you are engraving a flat plate, it would be more appropriate to use a frame-type structure like the third-generation PenMaster handwriting robot.

Because such a structure is more stable and has higher operating accuracy.

Theoretically, if the third-generation PenMaster handwriting robot is modified and converted into a laser engraving machine by adding a laser engraving head, the plane engraving accuracy will actually exceed that of the robotic arm.

The processing accuracy is expected to reach about ±0.01mm, which makes it more suitable for processing ultra-precision parts or engraving metal, wood, accessories or trademarks. "

After hearing Lin Feng's words, many businessmen in the live broadcast room were enlightened and discovered a business opportunity, because what Lin Feng proposed seemed to have great potential.

In fact, if they search on Taobao.com, they will find that the product that Lin Feng mentioned is already on the market.

After all, the research and development threshold of this thing is very low. It is nothing more than replacing the pen of the handwriting robot with a laser head to repeatedly write a "word".

(End of this chapter)