Perfikot was satisfied with Andrew’s caution, but she still said to Andrew: "In that case, relocate all the technicians who have co into contact with the Steam Knight armor production to the Northern Territory. If anyone is unwilling, let them co to talk to ."
Although Perfikot said this, she wasn’t actually too concerned about the leakage of the Steam Knight’s blueprints and technology.
The Steam Knight is actually composed of three parts: the armor itself, the knight as the wearer, and the power source capable of driving the armor.
The knight is the easiest part of the three to solve. Every major nation has organized knight units, and even if the standard is raised to great knights, for every nation, it’s rely about selecting an elite unit.
Compared to knights, the armor itself indeed poses so difficulty.
However, the challenging part is not how to manufacture it, but the core design concept.
It’s similar to powered exoskeletons in the original world, where various countries had related research during the Cold War. The earliest exoskeleton patent can even be traced back to the period of the Second Industrial Revolution, showing that the principle is not complex.
But until Perfikot crossed over, no country had truly produced powered exoskeletons that could be used in real combat.
Although so armies have been equipped, it was mostly used in small-scale trials to collect experintal data.
The reason for such slow progress, aside from the crucial energy issue, which was the inability to produce portable high-density energy sources capable of long-term powering the exoskeleton, was primarily human-machine interaction control.
Briefly, human-machine interaction involves three steps:
The first step is perceiving human behavioral intentions and collecting human information;
The second is to assess the external environnt and calculate the autonomous operation strategy for all motors through algorithms;
Finally, during physical movent implentation, constantly loop back to the previous step, evaluating the degree of behavior achievent, considering external environntal changes and operation intents, and adjusting system movent strategy in real-ti.
The main challenges in exoskeleton developnt are effectively obtaining human intent, quickly making subsequent assessnts, and ensuring synchronized actions between the machine and the human body.
After all, the essence of wearing a powered exoskeleton is to save effort and assist. If it requires more effort than not wearing, or if a leg lift turns into a large split, that’s clearly unacceptable.
Perfikot faced similar issues at the initial stage of developing the Steam Knight armor.
Amplifying the wearer’s strength by three tis is not a simple task. It’s not just a matter of attaching several hydraulic links to the arm and increasing output power by three tis human exertion.
The installed assist structures must precisely match the force mode of corresponding actions, ensuring no errors occur, or mistakes in timing or direction during exertion.
Situations like attempting to retract an arm, only for the assist structure to break it—absolutely cannot happen.
To solve this problem, profound research into human body structure and vast computational data is necessary.
For any nation in this world, this is not sothing that can be resolved in a short ti.
Even for Perfikot herself, without the differential engine and chanical logic, she wouldn’t have been able to solve these problems.
If this issue couldn’t be solved, rely having the Steam Knight’s blueprints would only result in a replica of her product—a shell without the critical core part.
The Imperial Military can replicate it, but they rely on Perfikot’s assistance. The critical micro-differential engine with chanical logic is a technology exclusive to Perfikot.
Indeed, she sold her maid automaton technology along with the Alchemy Workshop, but the opposing side can rely reproduce her technology template without altering any content in the chanical logic part.
Thus, the differential engine produced by the opposing side can still only load the maid automaton’s instruction set and cannot load the Steam Knight’s instruction set.
This instruction set is exclusive to Perfikot herself, and she provided a standard template to the Imperial Military, enabling them to replicate the Steam Knight.
As long as the military personnel aren’t idiots, they won’t let anyone threaten this template.
Moreover, information about this template is only known to a few military high-ranking executives; others have no idea of its existence.
Even if the template was leaked, do you think Perfikot might have set a backdoor in the instruction set?
Anyway, she has never worried about anyone using the Steam Knight against her.
"Can you manufacture large chanical components?" After discussing the relocation of Steam Knight armor technicians with Andrew, Perfikot suddenly asked.
Andrew was puzzled but answered anyway: "That depends on how large the components are. We can manufacture parts the size of harbor cranes. Is there sothing large you need to manufacture?"
As he asked, excitent and anticipation showed in Andrew’s expression.
In his view, there aren’t many things that can be called large components, which could likely be the Flying Airship’s parts.
Even if not, they’re at least similar.
This undoubtedly ans orders and business, along with significant profit.
Perfikot nodded and said: "I plan to manufacture a large autonomous machine for the exploration and construction in the Northern Territory, which requires so large-sized tal components. If you can produce them, I won’t need to find soone from the mainland to do it.
It’s undeniable that the New Continent’s industrial developnt lacks a bit, and many things still aren’t comparable to the mainland."
Andrew deliberately ignored Perfikot’s comnts on the New Continent’s industrial developnt, able to discern the enticing market from her description.
He rely inquired curiously: "Could you describe its approximate size? I need to check if the factory can manufacture such large parts."
"Around ten ters, maybe? In my vision, this autonomous machine cannot be too big or too small, at least equivalent to a two-story house," Perfikot described, but she wasn’t confident in any detailed conception, only providing a rough description.
Upon hearing this, Andrew made a ntal calculation and nodded affirmatively: "As long as the length doesn’t exceed twenty ters and the width doesn’t exceed five ters, I think my factory should be able to manufacture such large parts.
But considering the strength of tal materials... Count, are you really sure you need sothing that big?"
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