Chapter 402 The Prototype of the Third Generation of Prosthetics
[Connors: When the density of these lizard hybrid cells reaches a certain level, the user will transform in the direction of a lizard man. 】
[Connors: We can control this density to a very low range, so that the cells will transform in the human direction and die after a long period of time. 】
[Connors: From a macro perspective, this situation will occur when the strength of the prosthetic body is about 4 times higher than its own, but it is very slight. 】
[Connors: If maintained at 1.3~1.7 times the strength, users only need to perform maintenance once every 30 years to ensure normal cell operation. 】
[Connors: If it is not maintained, there will be no mutation, that is, the cells will accelerate degeneration and apoptosis, and will degenerate into a first-generation prosthetic body with only basic functions within a year. 】
The so-called maintenance is to go to the International Gene Cooperation Company to use lizard serum for maintenance and improve cell activity.
Business-wise, this restriction is even better than Lille thought!
Because of this restriction, those high-income groups with high demand can require more maintenance, and then there will be more new products to cut their leeks.
[Lille: What about the military field? 】
The person in charge of the military field was changed, and it was replaced by Michael, a former death warrior, to explain.
This former death warrior has removed the mechanical body installed on him by Cyber Technology Company and replaced it with a large number of his own cloned tissue prostheses.
Obviously he is the second human experiment case of the second generation prosthetic body.
Michael knocked on the blackboard and summoned a human model on the screen:
[Michael: In fact, if the user is trained and determined, we can directly implant a small human body into the human body. A syringe of lizard serum to maintain the activity of these artificial muscles.
By increasing the maximum stable output to 6 times normal human strength, the instantaneous limit may exceed 8 times or even higher - but at the moment I have no way of inferring where the limit is. 】
In Michael's human body model, there is also a core central control body similar to the violent component, which shows that his ideas are surprisingly consistent with the development of the violent component.
The stable output figure obviously exceeds the Lizard Fury Component Type 2 used by Jack, but the instantaneous limit is basically the same.
The reason is: Jack not only uses this artificial muscle, he also has a set of gorilla arms customized by the boxing champion.
When the power of a prosthetic body reaches this level, the limitation does not only come from the cellular level.
As the simulation device continued to improve, various parts of the mannequin began to change from colorless to green, then yellow, and finally red.
As red appears, the power boost stops.
[Michael: In the simulation, red is a sign of collapse - here, collapse includes but is not limited to cells breaking the balance between lizardization and humanization and starting to lose control, excessive force causing cell damage, and fractures .
In short, it is any situation that may cause the body to collapse.
First of all, we must make it clear that energy is not generated out of thin air. Huge power requires the consumption of matter - the conservation of mass and energy is still in effect. 】
The mannequin on the screen adds a small reserve under Michael's control.
[Michael: According to calculations, I added a high-energy fuel reserve device here.
Unlike the first-generation prosthetic body, the lizard-like muscle cells used in the second-generation prosthetic body can efficiently utilize biochemical energy, so we only need to stuff energy-containing organic matter into it. 】
Conventional second-generation prosthetics also need to operate based on energy.
Take electroactive polymers as an example. This material will change its shape as electrical energy is introduced, which is equivalent to converting electrical energy into mechanical energy, which consumes a lot of electrical energy.
However, in the cyberpunk era, the energy density of batteries still does not exceed high-purity alcohol 2, so large military prosthetics and exoskeletons are still dominated by alcohol 2 fuel and even some fossil fuels.
Rich people can ignore this inconvenience: because most of their work is indoors, even if they go out, there are floating vehicles and cars that can be charged.
Atlas's prosthetic body is different. The lizard-like cells absorb and store biochemical energy very efficiently. They can make up for a large part of their energy consumption by eating alone.
【Lille: Are there any other reactions to electrical energy stimulation? 】
[Michael: Of course, like normal muscles, these muscles can also respond to electrical stimulation, and to a certain extent]
[Michael: I wrote a method to overclock these muscles using overload current, but it is very inhumane. This algorithm can squeeze the physical limits of muscle fibers without making the cells too lizardized. The user will feel pain beyond imagination. 】
Michael pointed to the skeleton part again.
[Michael: After solving the energy problem, there is the problem of structural strength: Our prosthetic strategy abandons bone cell reinforcement to obtain higher muscle output and biochemical safety.
However, this also requires us to either let the implanter use original bone, which is too brittle; or use metal and other composite materials, which will greatly increase the intensity of the immune response.
We,need better structural alternatives. 】
What Michael mentioned happened to be the problem of transitioning from second-generation prosthetics to third-generation prostheses:
Although artificial muscles are used to replace the power system, the structural system still lags behind a lot. metal materials.
If lizard serum is used to cultivate bone cells, it will increase the density of lizard cells. It is better to add all the quota to artificial muscles and think of another method for overall strength. After all, these structures do not need to consider accuracy and force. The structure is simpler.
In the cyberpunk era, the third generation of prosthetics uses emerging composite materials such as carbon fiber and ceramics to solve this problem. This is also the generation in which most military prostheses are today:
Stronger, lighter and more precise.
And Lille also has something that can replace structural parts, and it is better.
Dr. Otto appeared next to Michael and exhaled the main components of the octopus arm on the screen——
Yes, while the development of the second-generation prosthesis was nearing completion, Art The development of the third-generation prosthetic body of the Las Group has also begun.
[Dr. Otto: The material used in the octopus arm is very suitable for this kind of skeleton, and the graphene battery can not only serve as structural parts and explosion-proof parts, but also as a power source.
And I discovered that we can also use some other biological materials as conductors. 】
As he spoke, Dr. Otto showed Lille a small arm designed with octopus arm material——
The finished product is already available.
The so-called other biological materials are actually spider silk.
In the production animation, several graphene batteries with specially designed molecular structures are assembled together. From the gaps in the structure, white spider silk extends outward. With the attachment of muscles, the three together form a brand new Forearm.
Dr. Otto looked at this invention with satisfaction and relief:
Although this is not his favorite research project, he also participated in the development of the entire software and hardware system.
Scientists and engineers like them exploring frontier fields are like ships sailing in unfamiliar waters——
No one will resist the appearance of fellow travelers. On the contrary, seeing So many partners are researching together and launching new equipment and technologies time and time again.
This feels like discovering a new continent and leaving their own flag on it.
[Dr. Otto: Animal experiments are expected to start next week. 】
Technological progress in the Marvel world is slow because there is an ethics committee stuck, but there is no such thing in the cyberpunk world.
In other words, without a successful experiment, Lille has almost caught up with the technological generation gap of giant companies in large market shares in industry.
The next step is the fourth generation of prosthetics - Sean Westan is one of the fourth generation of prosthetics.
The next generation of prosthetics will sprint towards fully integrated one-piece prostheses, enhanced neural components, the highest level of prosthetic eyes, and other prostheses.
Of course, in the cyberpunk world, the fourth-generation prosthetic body is not only a representative of stronger performance, but also a design purely for showing off wealth, as a display of status and identity.
The little octopus appeared in the virtual space, looking at a prosthetic body that was made of the same material as itself, but not the same design at all. He poked Lear:
[Little octopus: Brother, can I try? 】
Lille thought for a while: "Maybe there is a chance, but not now."
The inspection of the prosthetic body project has ended, Lille sorted it out and prepared to move on to the next topic:
Report from the Advanced Machinery Department.
Relatively speaking, these breakthroughs are more important: they are related to the situation in Africa and the problems that Atlas Group will soon encounter.
(End of this chapter)