In the endless space.
Dian Jing was scratching her ears and cheeks, hesitating in front of two similar models of parts.
These two parts had the same function, and the price difference was less than 100 yuan.
One of the two parts focused on earthquake resistance, and the other focused on high temperature resistance.
If it was in the past, Dian Jing would have installed both parts and kept one as a backup system.
But now, the legendary monster of Monster Industries was scratching her ears and cheeks because of something that was less than 100 yuan …
Then, Ye Qing's figure slowly condensed in the endless space.
Dian Jing scratched her translucent little head and sighed. "Boss, didn't you go to rest? Why are you back after only half an hour?"
"I thought of a perfect cost-cutting plan."
"What plan?" Dian Jing, who was squatting on the chair, almost jumped up. "It's universal. Can it be used on my industrial version?"
Ye Qing smiled mysteriously, then turned on the sound in the virtual world and asked Dian Jing to watch the video together.
But as the video played, the suspicion in Dian Jing's eyes grew stronger and stronger.
In the video, a young girl with two ponytails was walking on a bustling street. The girl was dancing as she walked, attracting the attention of passersby.
What did this have to do with the cost reduction of the robot? The disappointed Dian Jing was unhappy.
"Boss …"
"I have no problem with you wasting time watching videos of women when you're resting and relaxing."
"But what's the use of showing it to me?"
"First, I'm not tired and I don't need to relax. Second, I'm not interested in these women." After saying that, Dian Jing snorted and turned her head away.
"I'm not asking you to pay attention to her gender." Ye Qing turned Dian Jing's head back and forced it to watch the video again.
"Hmph, she's not good-looking."
"Can't you use your brain a little?" Ye Qing preached with some disappointment. "I didn't even rest and ran into the endless space just to let you tell whether she's good-looking or not?"
"Or in your eyes, I'm just a superficial man who likes to look at beautiful girls?"
"Let me ask you, other than her looks, you can't see anything else?"
"No." Dian Jing didn't dare to make a sound, but she was obviously still unhappy.
Ye Qing said word by word, "I'll have to trouble you to take a look at her figure."
"Didn't you notice that not only is she cute, but her figure is also very petite?"
"What does being petite have to do with me? It has even less to do with our robot …"
Dian Jing seemed to have suddenly understood something. It came back to its senses and muttered, "Petite … petite?"
Ye Qing gave it an expression that indicated it was not hopelessly stupid. "Do you understand now?"
Dian Jing immediately jumped up from her chair.
"Isn't my idea great?"
"Bravo, bravo, bravo!" Dian Jing had become the same as Ye Qing in the beginning. She did not give this girl with two ponytails a red star, nor did she call her a woman. She even left comments like, "You're so cute."
"Hey, hey, hey ~ Brother, this is my account. How dare you leave a message?"
…
Ten minutes later.
Ye Qing and Dian Jing sat in front of the virtual operating equipment again.
Reduction, reduction ~
Both of them had previously walked into a mistake that could not be considered a mistake.
The cost of the latest model of the Watchman robot was more than 100 million yuan. Its entire body was condensed with some of the most cutting-edge technology of the Monster Industries.
It was not wrong to reduce these cutting-edge technologies and replace them with mass-produced electronic components for reduction.
It was also not wrong to use the design of the Watchman robot as a blueprint and reduce and modify two sets of civilian and industrial versions of the robot.
Now they both understood that the mistake was not to follow the script.
The Watchman robot was an infiltration type, an assassin type, and a lone wolf type robot built specifically for killing.
For the sake of infiltration and concealment, its design was completely copied from the human shape.
If it wore a cloak and looked from the side, it would look like a strong adult man.
Ye Qing and Tianjin had been down-matched for almost a day, and they only down-matched it to a "thin man". They deleted the armor that had originally piled up into a muscle contour, so that it no longer looked like a person, but it could be seen at a glance that it was a robot.
So what if they cut its height again?
From the original 1.8 meters, it was directly cut to 1.6 meters.
The height difference of the robot was not as simple as being 20 centimeters shorter as that of humans.
The robot being 20 centimeters shorter meant that it had a lighter net weight and lower energy consumption.
It meant that the bionic electric muscle material that was originally used to maintain the robot's movement could be reduced by 4%, which meant that the bionic metal skeleton could be reduced by 2%.
It meant that the connecting wires of the components made of precious metals and required to meet various harsh working environments could be reduced by 1.5%.
It meant that the cermet bionic vertebrae that had been reduced to ten pieces could be reduced by one more piece.
It meant that after the energy consumption was reduced, the volume of the second-generation plasma battery could be reduced by 8%.
It meant …
If humans could be strong and petite, why couldn't machines be?
The two of them were so focused on reducing the electronic vitality parts of the Watchman robot that they did not feel that there was anything wrong with the robot's strong body.
Perhaps if the reduction plan was handed over to a larger product team, some designers would be able to quickly come up with the operation of cutting the height.
But if the two of them did not have external prompts, they would not have thought of it for a while.
Because the height of the Watchman robot was not only to meet the need for concealment and infiltration.
Its height was very much in line with the industrial design proportion. Only with this height and body shape could it fit so many electronic components.
In addition, if the height was changed rashly, Ye Qing and Dian Jing would first think of the height change of the robot. Then, the posture balance system of the whole body would have to be pushed back.
This kind of major change involved the core stability system. When the two of them were reducing the size, their subconscious minds automatically blocked this seemingly wrong idea.
"After the height change, is it easy to redo the posture balance?"
"It's not difficult!" Dian Jing's eyes glowed with the same vigor as when she first started working. "The layout of the robot's components and the posture balance system are the best results simulated by the supercomputer in various environments."
"If the Watchman model was cut by 20 centimeters, there would be no way to do it."
"But our two versions have deleted a large number of electronic components. Originally, we had to readjust the dynamic balance."
"Now that we're pushing it back, it's nothing more than increasing the workload of the supercomputer and redesigning the stability system."
…
The next day.
Ye Qing and Dian Jing respectively "redesigned" the two robots and entered the simulation test of the posture balance system.
In order to pursue efficiency, Ye Qing directly allocated all the remaining computing power of the supercomputing cluster of Monster Industries into the endless space.
With the addition of computing power, the timeline of the simulation test was sped up by more than 700 times. After discovering the problem, the modification authority was also handed over to the supercomputer.
The supercomputer simulated for two full days.
The industrial version of the robot successfully passed the supercomputer test. The supercomputer adjusted the installation position of the components to the most optimal, and the posture balance was also perfect.
However, there was a small problem with Ye Qing's civilian version.
In order to enrich the functions of the civilian version of the robot, Ye Qing deliberately added some medical components.
For example, infrared temperature monitoring, electronic blood sugar detection, blood oxygen saturation, heart rate monitoring, and so on.
The cost of these built-in detection equipment components was actually very low, only more than 200 yuan.
However, with these built-in components, its function in family scenes could be greatly improved, and consumers would have more desire to buy it.
The problem was with the medical components. These medical components were originally built into the robot's arms. No matter where they were changed, there would still be problems affecting the posture balance.
After thinking for a moment, Ye Qing simply gritted his teeth and took out all the medical components and stopped installing them.
The robot could not fit these things inside, so they would make the robot's special medical kit parts and let the customers choose.
This way, more supporting medical products could be put in the medical kit parts.
As long as there was money, it would not be a problem to choose one with an intensive care bed.
A robot with a height of 1.6 meters, which looked a little cute and small, carrying a special medical kit and running around was no less popular than a robot with a height of 1.8 meters.
The civilian version was 78,000 yuan.
The industrial version was 285,000 yuan.
This was the latest mass-production cost quote for the two robots after the height was adjusted to 1.6 meters.
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