Chapter 1384 The shock of the future world (third update, please subscribe)
A more powerful enemy!
Who knows?
After all, no one knows the future.
Just when Wells was thinking this, these young people from across the ocean were soon stunned by what they saw in front of them. As for Carol, This guy from Harvard Business School screamed in surprise:
"Oh my God, have I entered the future and arrived in a science fiction world?"
These people from across the ocean are no strangers to industrial production. After all, Blue Star is number one there - that tank Ford was born, and the production line was born.
When they were young, they had seen the kind of assembly line production from news movies, which the United States was once proud of.
But what about now?
What appeared before them was a completely different scene.
On the automobile production line, white welding robot arms flash with dazzling welding light. They perform every welding action stably and accurately. The air is filled with the pungent smell of metal and welding, but this does not affect the robot's work efficiency. The bodies of each car are gradually taking shape under their skillful hands.
"Oh my God, this, this, is this the future world?"
"Look, the robotic arm over there has started to move again."
A The student pointed to the production line not far away and said.
I saw a robotic arm drawing an elegant arc in the air and steadily grabbing a heavy car part. Its movements are light and powerful, as if it is dancing silently. Then, the robotic arm slowly transports the parts to the welding site, where they are perfectly combined with another part of the car body under the welding of the welding robot.
"It's so precise, like someone is controlling it all."
Another person praised.
"Yes, this is the power of modern technology."
He nodded, his eyes full of shock.
He knew that this was the power of modern technology, but when he was exposed to it, what he felt was an unprecedented impact.
All this is too magical.
Even if they are from Blue Star No. 1, even if they are in the United States, they have never seen such a scene.
In such a production line, people become auxiliary "tools". Huge white robotic arms weld and assemble parts one after another. What do they see in the flash of electric welding?
It’s the future!
Just like the future world in science fiction novels, it appeared before their eyes without any warning.
In fact, it was not without warning. About eight years ago, the first industrial robot was born in the mechanical laboratory of Yong'an University. Then the machinery company cooperated with the university to produce the first industrial robot, although it was only one. A robot that can twist screws, but it created a history.
Three years ago, the first spot welding robot was installed on BMW's automobile production line. From that day on, industrial robots truly entered industrial production.
Different from other companies, although industrial robots are expensive, due to the shortage of labor, robots have been rapidly promoted in BMW, Wuling, Volkswagen and other companies, and market demand has stimulated several companies. Machinery companies have invested a lot of money and technical strength in researching new industrial robots.
The first to be applied is the automobile manufacturing industry, which requires the use of various types of industrial robots such as stamping, welding, spraying, assembly, and transportation. In just a few years, machine manufacturers have developed There are more than a dozen types of robots, and automobile manufacturers invest more than 500 million yuan in robots every year, and this number is increasing year by year.
However, the obsolete old-fashioned production equipment was not turned into scrap metal, but was repaired and exported - sold to the Soviets. This was not an act of profiteers, but an initiative of the Soviet Union. In their opinion, these sci-fi robots are really... too fragile. Those integrated circuits will turn into a pile of scrap metal under war conditions!
Therefore, they still chose safety.
Of course, there is another reason, it is too expensive!
The price of the same production line will at least double!
If people can do it, why use expensive robots?
But it is different here. Here, human resources are a scarce resource.
Although true automated production has not yet been achieved, what they have in front of them is just a production line being tested.
However, Joe, Carol and others were all stunned. They stood there dumbfounded, unable to believe what they saw.
As they watched, the robotic arm continued to weld. In the arc of electric welding, the body of the car continued to undergo new changes as the production line moved, becoming more and more like a complete vehicle.
They stood next to the production line, watching each car come from scratch, from parts to body, and watched a few workers walking around the production line.
Everything here is like what is described in science fiction novels - people are no longer the main body of industrial production.
The welding robots continue to work, and their movements always maintain a high degree of stability and precision. The car body gradually becomes strong and beautiful under their welding, just like a piece of art.
"Oh my God, Joe, tell me, are we in the 21st century?"
Carol said excitedly:
"This It's the future..."
"Oh my God, compared with them, Detroit's automobile manufacturing plants are like primitive society!"
A young man from Detroit said in a surprised tone that maybe he had been to a car manufacturing plant and witnessed how cars were produced.
Now, everything in front of him completely subverted his imagination. Everyone was shocked and scared to death!
“It’s not just Detroit, but us, and the entire United States. We are simply people from primitive society...”
For these Americans , they were once proud.
After all, they have been living in America's most glorious period since the day they were born.
In their eyes, it was the United States that defeated the Germans, the United States defeated the Japanese, and the United States won World War II. It is the United States that protects the world!
Their fathers were the greatest generation of Americans, and what about them?
I will take over this flag from my fathers and pass on this pride.
Now, the United States is the well-deserved number one Blue Star. Whether it’s economy, technology, or international influence.
They are proud and arrogant.
But now, facing these industrial robots that look like they came out of science fiction novels.
In an instant, all the pride and arrogance came to an end.
This incredible production method completely subverted their cognition.
Such an impact is like a primitive man suddenly coming to modern society.
His first reaction was to be scared to death.
They were really scared to death.
This is not an adjective, but a dynamic word. At least for Joe, for a moment he didn’t know if it was an illusion, but he really peed.
Not much, just a few drops!
But these few drops fully showed the fear and uneasiness in his heart. Fortunately, he is not an eighty-year-old man now, and he can still control his restraint muscles.
Facing the white robots surrounding the car production line.
While watching them moving their arms and welding, completing the work quickly, the novel "War of the Worlds" that he had read appeared in his mind.
It was like seeing a robot made by aliens. At this moment, all the robots seemed to be separated from the production line. They turned into machines made of cold steel. They walked back and forth on the production line to produce the cars.
But soon those cars turned into armored vehicles, tanks, and airplanes. And these robots were just like what was described in the novel. They rushed into the city with ease. It destroys human resistance.
This is the machine.
This is the robot.
Is this the future?
Qiao didn’t know, but he just looked at everything in front of him with dumbfounded eyes. If his reason hadn’t controlled him, maybe he would have screamed loudly - how could this be possible?
“How is this possible?”
Some people can’t control their emotions. It’s hard for them to imagine, or believe, what they see.
If all this is the United States, they don't think there is anything strange. After all, the United States is the number one Blue Star.
It's like America invented all this, it's a matter of course.
But the robots on the production line that looks like a future world in front of them now are not made in the United States.
It was not even invented by the United States, it was a modern high-tech product that they had never seen before.
Such an impact is understandable. After all, this completely subverts their perception of the United States as number one!
"...Each robot is controlled by an electronic computer, and its movements are controlled through programming. Compared with ordinary workers, it not only welds faster, but also has higher quality solder joints..."
< br>In fact, this is just a relatively primitive industrial robot. It does not even have a multi-jointed arm. It cannot work flexibly like the mechanical arms that will be used more than ten years later. It can only complete simple straight-line welding. Spot welding, in many places, still requires the assistance of workers, but it still brings an unprecedented impact to these young people from the United States.
Not to mention them, even Wells and others who had seen the application of industrial robots in newspapers and magazines were stunned.
At this moment, they found that the world they were familiar with was completely overturned, and they were in this strange place.
This is not the United States, but this is the future world!
Today, here, they enter a future world!
(End of this chapter)