From all-round academic master to chief scientist

Ma Gaoliang, who was still smiling and waiting for Lin Xiao to guess, was stunned when he heard Lin Xiao's words.

What?

Lin Xiao has better news?

Why did Lin Xiao suddenly have good news again?

etc……

The horse on the other end of the phone was bright, and his eyes suddenly lit up.

Just kidding, Lin Xiao now says he has good news!

This is good news for Academician Lin.

Ma Gaoliang immediately raised his voice and asked with great anticipation: "Academician Lin, what good news do you think it is? Just guess, I definitely can't guess it."

Lin Xiao smiled and then said, "I'll take a photo of you and send it to you first."

Then he took a photo of the unlucky monkey No. 1 in front of him - oh, it should be called Cyber ​​Monkey No. 1 now. After Lin Xiao took a picture of it, he sent it directly to Ma Gaoliang.

When Ma Gaoliang over there saw this photo, he was immediately stunned.

Although he had seen this monkey before, when Lin Xiao showed his artificial neural function, it was obvious that he was not able to distinguish between different monkeys, so he did not recognize this monkey, except for the two in the photo. It was a mechanical prosthesis, but Ma Gaoliang was stunned on the spot.

"This...Academician Lin, could it be that the good news you are talking about is this...realistic-level special effects?"

He asked a little cautiously, trying to be as conservative as possible.

Although he had a guess in his mind, he always felt that something was unreal.

After all, after Lin Xiao developed artificial nerves before, he asked if he could make prosthetic limbs. But at that time, Lin Xiao clearly said that this thing was not easy to make?

Why is it that the meaning expressed by nerve currents is difficult to translate, and even if it is created, it will not be stable?

Now that it happened suddenly again, he felt that it was outrageous.

When hearing Ma Gaoliang's guess, Lin Xiao suddenly said speechlessly: "Director Ma, be more confident, what about movie special effects? I don't have the time to help our domestic movies create new special effects technology."

"Forget it, I'll just send you a video."

Then he took out his mobile phone, took a video of the monkey, and then sent it to Ma Gaoliang.

Soon, Ma Gaoliang opened the video and started watching it. The more he watched, the bigger his eyes became.

Seeing the monkey inside flexibly moving the two mechanical prosthetics, the facts also told him that this was not some science fiction clip, this was what Lin Xiao shot for him on the spot.

Metallic reflections appeared on the surface of the prosthetic limb. Finally, Ma Gaoliang swallowed his saliva and spoke to the phone again: "Academician Lin, is this really a mechanical prosthetic limb?"

"Can there be any falsehood?" Lin Xiao said with a smile.

"Didn't you say at the beginning that the interpretation of neural currents was a key issue? It would take a long time to complete? Now it only takes a few months."

Lin Xiao said without blushing: "I accidentally found a way to decode neural currents. Now, in addition to basically simulating brain thinking and realizing artificial consciousness by controlling neural currents, there is also the need to decode the brain." In addition to thinking nerve currents, other things can be realized, such as electronic prosthetic eyes, and now I can also interpret visual nerve currents."

"What?! Optical nerve current?"

Ma Gaoliang's heart was shocked again, and his expression was moved by it.

The three sensory disabilities of blindness, deafness and mute are all very tragic things, but if he had to become one of these three types of disabilities at this time, he would definitely exclude the blind first.

Because whether they are deaf or mute, their mobility has basically not disappeared. What is missing is basically the ability to integrate into society, but the ability to integrate into the world is basically still there. After all, at least they can still see the world.

For blind people, the world is dark. Although they still have the ability to communicate with others, they have lost the ability to integrate into the world.

When people cannot integrate into the world, the pain they ultimately feel, at least in Ma Gaoliang's view, is worse than the other two.

As far as he is concerned, he cannot accept the situation that he cannot see anything at all.

In addition, there are even worse things among the blind, that is, the congenitally blind, that is, those who are blind from birth, because for them, they don’t even know what color is, and they have no concept of color in their minds. Not even black.

For such people, even if they have the ability to speak, learning to communicate with others will be full of difficulties.

And even Helen Keller, who wrote "If You Give Me Three Days of Light," had at least seen the world and had a certain basic understanding of its composition and colors.

Therefore, once it is as Lin Xiao said now, and his technology can realize this electronic prosthetic eye technology, it will be something that will benefit the entire human society just like artificial nerves!

Of course, he has not forgotten that there are other functions of mechanical prostheses. If you add these points, Lin Xiao's discount technology, let alone the living Hua Tuo, is completely a collection of the living Hua Tuo, the living Bian Que, etc. .

The most important thing is that once these technologies emerge, it means that China's status in the world's medical field will once again be greatly improved.

Which technology in the world can restore sight to blind people?

Thinking of these things, Ma Gaoliang felt even more excited. He said directly: "Academician Lin, I already know this matter. When can this technology be used?"

Lin Xiao replied: "Electronic prosthetic eyes take a long time, but it won't be too long. The main reason is that the relevant chips need to be specially designed. Of course, they don't need to be very precise. A 90-nanometer process is enough. They are mainly responsible for calculation and analysis."

Normal people's eyes have hundreds of millions of related cells to process light information, and finally form so many images. If electronic prosthetic eyes are used to interpret these light information, the computing power requirements will naturally be very high. High, so it is necessary to perform very complex calculations and interpretations on the obtained imaging, and finally convert it into nerve current signals and hand them over to the human brain for processing.

So a chip is needed to perform calculations.

"As for mechanical prostheses, I think they can be used now. Except for the artificial nerves that need to be connected to the human nerves, other surgeries are basically not too difficult. The main thing is to connect a few bones. There is nothing wrong with being stapled into the human skeleton and stabilizing the external structure. And since the artificial nerve has been tested for so many months and has been determined to be no problem, I think this thing can also be used. After all, It’s primarily a mechanical structure.”

Of course, today's technology is fully usable. As long as he is given a person with a broken leg or hand, and based on the person's body shape, he can now design a prosthetic limb and start building it. It doesn't take long at all. .

Ma Gaoliang was stunned and asked: "So, you also completed the operation on this monkey by yourself?"

"yes."

Ma Gaoliang: "..."

This is simply cheating, even worse than cheating!

Is surgery so easy?

Not to mention that this is both a nerve connection and a bone nail. It sounds very difficult, but according to Lin Xiao, bone nail setting has become easier?

It's simply outrageous.

However, Lin Xiao did not have so much entanglement with Ma Gaoliang, and said calmly: "Okay, Director Ma, that's basically it. I'll leave you to arrange the rest."

Ma Gaoliang came to his senses and said quickly: "Okay, no problem."

But as soon as he finished speaking, he remembered something: "Oh, by the way, I haven't told you the good news from my side yet."

Lin Xiao smiled after hearing this and said, "It should be about the approval of the artificial nerve and it can be officially launched on the market, right?"

"You knew already?"

"Guess." Lin Xiao said casually: "Now that it is on the market, it will be more convenient for me to use this technology directly."

Ma Gaoliang was helpless. He felt more and more that Lin Xiao was suppressing his IQ.

"Okay, that's it. Although this mechanical prosthesis can be used now according to what you said, we definitely need to test it before that. Then I will arrange a few candidates for testing as soon as possible. "

"OK, no problem."

"Um... that's right! There's another question." Suddenly, Ma Gaoliang asked in a low voice: "The thing about this thing, uh... is the torque of the motor. How big can it be?"

Lin Xiao was stunned for a moment, and then knew what Ma Gaoliang meant by asking this.

The torque of the motor directly affects the strength of the robotic arm.

And this means that if it is made into a prosthetic leg or hand, it will determine whether it is a rehabilitation device or a weapon!

This is the so-called mechanical ascension.

Lin Xiaodang even answered directly: "The motor can achieve as much torque as it can achieve."

Ma Gaoliang's eyes suddenly lit up, "Okay, I understand. Thank you, Academician Lin."

Lin Xiao reminded again: "Of course, this is only theoretical. After all, this thing is always connected to the human skeleton. The final force also needs to take into account the bearing capacity of the connection, so there are still some restrictions. .”

Ma Gaoliang smiled and said, "I know this."

"OK."

Lin Xiao said no more and hung up the phone.

Shaking his head, Lin Xiao sighed, "Is this really going to start the rhythm of cyberpunk and mechanical ascension?"

When the time comes, it will be written like this in the future history books: "In 2023, Lin Xiao developed the earth's first mechanical prosthetic limb, paving the way for the future cyberpunk world."

Thinking of this, Lin Xiao couldn't help but laugh and shook his head. Then he stopped thinking about it and took another look at the monkey in front of him. He couldn't help but think, if he let this thing out, it might surprise the people outside. ?

Then he thought about it, maybe it could?

Just to warm up the outside world?

Thinking of this, a smile suddenly appeared on Lin Xiao's face.

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