Chapter 153: Industrial Robot

Inside Laboratory No. 2, it was bustling and crowded with people.

Sun Cheng stood in the center of the crowd, rightfully taking his place; before him sat a workbench that looked extremely crude, yet also incomparably bizarre.

To call it crude is because the entire workbench was simply made from a piece of ordinary steel plate nearly half a meter thick, four or five meters wide, and sixteen or seventeen meters long, with several dozen supports welded to the bottom.

As for calling it bizarre, it is because from left to right, a dozen or so metal rods had been artificially welded onto the workbench, each hanging a humanoid robotic skeleton that shimmered with a metallic luster throughout.

"……Are the items ready?"

Sun Cheng could not help but stare fixedly at the robot in front of him with excitement, asking impatiently.

"Master, according to your instructions, the 【Heart】 and the 【Brain】 have both already undergone testing……"

Without needing further instruction from him, Atlas had already raised a metal box no bigger than his own palm and handed it to Sun Cheng.

Sun Cheng took it and looked closely, unable to help but grin.

Inside the box, there were currently two small items of different sizes and shapes, one square and one round.

The small square item looked exactly like a miniature version of the 【AllSpark】; it was a standard cube, and the six surfaces of the cube were each branded with extremely precise electronic patterns, looking just like decorative designs.

Sun Cheng had not yet given this thing a formal name, so he just casually called it the 【Heart】.

The 【Heart】 was a new energy core redesigned by Atlas and the other Decepticon Workers according to his requirements, based on the energy system of the 'Hunter-type individual combat auxiliary equipment' captured from the Hunters.

Do not underestimate this thing; although the Hunter Civilization's application of energy could not yet be called sophisticated, they had been initiated into it for many years.

Having been comprehensively designed and improved by Atlas and the others using the technology and manufacturing industry of the planet Cybertron, this 【Heart】, which looked to be the size of two adult fists, could now store 300 Cybertronian standard units of energy.

Although it still had a significant gap compared to the cores produced by Starscream and Shockwave, it had the potential for further development, and it was sufficient for the time being.

The other small item in the box, designed into a standard circular shape, was also like the 【Heart】, with its surface carved full of 'patterns'; it was smaller than an adult fist and was the data processing center and memory storage center designed by Atlas and the others, containing a memory chip capable of storing 50PB of content, as well as a neuron chip designed by imitating a human computer processor—was this not the 【Brain】?

Thinking of the 【Core】 designed by Starscream and Shockwave in his mind, Sun Cheng truly admired them to no end.

However, their technical level was indeed far from reaching the degree of these two great scientists of the Decepticon Legion, but if the requirements were lowered and lowered again, and they were not even required to reach the standard of an Industrial Decepticon right away, then settling for the next best thing brought the difficulty down into an acceptable range.

The result was precisely these products in front of him!

Stretching out his finger, he pinched the 【Heart】 out of the box; Sun Cheng took a deep breath—whether his efforts over the past half-month were a success or a failure would depend on this test now.

Seeming to notice that his palm was trembling slightly, Atlas, though puzzled, still leaned in, "Master, let me do it?"

"No need……"

Sun Cheng shook his head; the humanoid robotic skeleton in front of him looked the most crudely manufactured, but it was indeed a piece he had completed with his own hands.

Although the design drawings came from Atlas and the others, having learned for so long and fumbled and explored for so long, his first work, while a bit crude, was after all a qualified product, which was of great significance to him as someone starting from scratch.

Soon calming his mood, Sun Cheng walked solemnly to the front of the robotic skeleton, and after fumbling skillfully at its chest for a moment, its chest cavity immediately opened, revealing a space reserved specifically for the 【Heart】.

After gauging the direction, he stuffed it into the chest cavity; he did not rush to install the 【Brain】 immediately, but instead tapped lightly on its chest.

The next moment, the robotic skeleton began to tremble slightly from top to bottom, and soon a dense and subtle sound of parts grinding together echoed from within.

Sun Cheng listened intently, and after a good while without hearing any discordant noise, he smiled with satisfaction.

Immediately, he paused the 【Heart】's power supply to the body, picked up the 【Brain】 again, and installed it into its head.

After finishing, he then took this robotic skeleton off the support on the workbench and placed it onto the workbench.

After choosing to activate its 【Heart】 again, this body trembled even more violently than before.

After lasting for about twenty or thirty seconds, the eye sockets of the robotic skeleton, which had been tightly closed, suddenly lit up with blue light, and at the same time, a cold and stiff electronic voice rang out, "Data processing center operational…… automatically loading body diagnostic functions…… initiating core maintenance functions…… memory chip synchronization starting……"

After another few seconds, it slowly sat up from the workbench, its gaze lingering on Sun Cheng, Atlas, and the other Workers one by one, before finally falling back onto Sun Cheng.

Leaping down from the workbench, it walked quickly to stand before Sun Cheng, the crude metal skeleton standing straight.

"Industrial Robot No. 1 reporting to Master, please give your orders……"

Although its movements were stiff and its expression dull, and because it only copied the core constructed from the data of Industrial Decepticons like Atlas and the others, it did not yet possess their intelligence and emotions.

However, the moment Sun Cheng saw it successfully awakened, he could not hide the excitement in his eyes.

"Success……"

He suppressed his voice, but his heart could not hide the excitement.

This robot, born from his proposal and designed by Atlas and the other Decepticon Workers, strictly speaking, could not yet be considered a Decepticon.

They did not possess the ability to think for themselves or emotions, but they were an excellent tool.

This industrial-type robot was designed with a load capacity of up to 300 kilograms; it could do everything from welding, carrying, and maintaining machines to using tools for excavation, and the production cost was not expensive—almost all materials could be bought, with a cost not exceeding 200,000 US dollars.

If there was one troublesome thing, it would probably be its 【Brain】 and 【Heart】; it took Atlas and the other Decepticon Workers about three days on average to manufacture one set!

However, compared to its utility, this could be ignored.

It could be foreseen that with these industrial robots that could be manufactured on a large scale, whether it was the construction of Base No. 1 and Base No. 2, or the research and production of other projects, everything would be taken to the next level.