Chapter 314: Chapter 310 Construction Efficiency
The massive autonomous robot doesn’t require workers to operate it; the mechanical logic it carries is sufficient to keep this giant running and allows it to recognize and execute voice commands, much like the doll maids around Perfikot.
Especially on this big guy, Perfikot has specifically added an image recognition feature.
It can recognize any standard engineering blueprints and follow them for construction, highlighting a simple and worry-free process.
However, correspondingly, this giant also needs at least one Alchemist and one Engineer for maintenance.
After all, this giant is like large engineering machinery from the original world; they are indeed powerful, with astonishing efficiency, but maintaining them is equally astonishing.
Fortunately, Perfikot considered maintenance issues from the initial design, adopting a modular design as much as possible to simplify the complex internal structure, making it easier to maintain and use.
No matter what, a troubleshooting Alchemist and a technical problem-solving Engineer are still necessary for this giant.
These experiences were accumulated previously using the snake-shaped tunnel boring machine.
During the time the snake-shaped tunnel boring machine was used to dig the underground shelter in Fjord Town, various problems were frequently encountered.
Workers couldn’t solve these problems and had to call the Alchemist and the Engineer to handle them.
Because they were called too frequently, the annoyed Alchemists and Engineers eventually modified a small room on the snake-shaped tunnel boring machine, where two people would take turns every day just to stay there, ensuring they could respond at any time.
After they did this, not only did the speed of fault handling improve, but even the fault rate decreased under the inspection of Engineers and Alchemists.
It must be said that the workers of this era still have certain deficiencies in overall quality, at least they can’t solve overly complex technical problems.
The presence of Engineers and Alchemists is still necessary, and comparatively, Perfikot prefers high-tech talent over simple labor workers.
However, the technological level of this world and era constrains the development of production relations, leading the industrial structure of this world to remain labor-intensive rather than technology-intensive.
But with the spread of Imaginary Alchemy, Perfikot has enough reason to believe that in the future, all of this will change.
After all, the efficiency of robots is absolutely unmatched by ordinary human workers.
Even those labor workers themselves had to admit when they saw engineering robots with four mechanical arms simultaneously lifting construction components or huge logs that several people together would have, that one machine could replace at least fifty of them.
Yes, after creating the large autonomous engineering robot, Perfikot put it into the construction of the underground shelter in Fjord Town.
This giant played its role excellently, greatly accelerating the construction progress.
Although the internal design height of the underground shelter was insufficient to accommodate this large robot, Perfikot considered this from the initial design, so all six legs of this giant can be folded and extended.
It can extend any of the six mechanical legs to a length of at least thirty meters, and can also fold them into a short form less than five meters long.
This provides the robot with extremely high maneuverability and passage capability; even the not-so-spacious work surface at the construction site of the underground shelter is like walking on flat ground to this robot.
Of course, this robot doesn’t walk through the tunnels excavated by the tunnel boring machine like ordinary workers but enters the underground shelter from the vertical shaft reserved for the Energy Tower, much like a spider.
It uses its six mechanical legs to secure itself in the shaft and proceeds to construct using its four mechanical arms.
Numerous pre-fabricated building components can be easily transported from the surface to the interior of the underground shelter by this spider-like robot and are assisted by workers in assembling them finally.
This saved massive labor for the construction of the underground shelter; at least those workers no longer need to haul the building components to the required position by hand and then laboriously assemble them using only simple tools.
With the help of robots, they were able to complete work that originally required three to five days within a single day, and each person felt more relaxed than before.
This led many workers to praise the large robot as the "workers’ friend."
This made Perfikot, who initially worried that workers might think robots were stealing their jobs, feel amused.
However, she felt her concerns were not unfounded, as now there is only one robot assisting in construction, and it does indeed require worker assistance for certain tasks that cannot be directly completed with current robotic technology.
After all, this is just a first-generation robot; although its design is already quite complete, even receiving praise and recognition from the Jade Record, this cannot hide the fact that the robot’s functions are still crudely simple.
Or rather, what Perfikot designed is essentially a large crane-like existence; it doesn’t have the ability for delicate work.
Even though she has the ability to do so, even she can design a batch of small engineering robots to specifically replace those workers.
But considering employment rates and social stability, Perfikot does not intend to do so.
Maintaining employment positions appropriately is necessary, and replacing all workers with small engineering robots would be too costly, with a poor cost-benefit ratio.
If small engineering robots were to replace workers, they could perhaps only achieve uninterrupted 24-hour construction; beyond this, the gap between them and ordinary workers is not significant.
If Perfikot adopts a three-shift work system, deploying more workers to also achieve uninterrupted 24-hour construction, the difference in work efficiency is actually not evident.
At most, what workers do in three days, small engineering robots could finish in two days.
And the consumption from the former is undoubtedly much smaller than the latter, while also solving employment problems, increasing social stability.
Comparing both options, Perfikot has no reason to replace workers with small engineering robots.
This may be the difference in thought between Lords and technical personnel; if Perfikot were just an ordinary Alchemist, she might pursue efficiency more, but as a Lord, she must consider her subjects.