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Chapter 1384 The Shock of the Future World (rd update, please subscribe)
A more powerful enemy!
Who knows?

After all, no one knows the future.

Just as Wells was thinking this in his heart, soon, these young people from the other side of the ocean were stunned by the scene in front of them. As for Carol, the guy from Harvard Business School, he screamed in surprise:
"Oh my God, have I entered the future, into a science fiction world?"

These people from the other side of the ocean are not unfamiliar with industrial production. After all, that is the number one place on the blue planet - that is where Ford and the production line were born.

When they were young, they had seen assembly line production in news films, which was once something the United States was proud of.

But now?
What appeared before their eyes was a completely different scene.

On the automobile production line, the white welding robot arms flashed with dazzling welding light, and they performed each welding action steadily and accurately. The air was filled with the pungent smell of metal and welding, but this did not affect the robots' work efficiency. The bodies of cars were gradually formed under their skillful hands.

"Oh my God, is this the future world?"

"Look, that robotic arm over there is moving again."

A student pointed to the production line not far away and said.

I saw a robotic arm draw an elegant arc in the air and steadily grab a heavy car part. Its movements were light and powerful, as if it was dancing silently. Then, the robotic arm slowly transported the part to the welding place, and under the welding robot, it was perfectly combined with another part of the car body.

"It's so precise, it's like someone is controlling all this."

another person exclaimed.

“Yes, this is the power of modern technology.”

One nodded, his eyes filled with shock.

He knew that this was the power of modern technology, but when he was in it, he felt an unprecedented impact.

This is all too magical.

Even though they came from Blue Planet No. 1, even though they were in the United States, they had never seen such a scene.

On such a production line, people become auxiliary "tools". Huge white robotic arms weld and assemble parts. What do they see in the flash of electric welding?
It's the future!
It was like a future world in science fiction, appearing before their eyes without any warning.

In fact, it was not without signs. About eight years ago, the first industrial robot was born in the mechanical laboratory of Yongan University. Subsequently, a mechanical company cooperated with the university to produce the first industrial robot. Although it was only a robot that could only tighten screws, it created a history.

Three years ago, the first spot welding robot was installed on BMW's automobile production line. From that day on, industrial robots truly entered industrial production.

Unlike other companies, although industrial robots are expensive, due to labor shortage, robots have been rapidly promoted in companies such as BMW, Wuling, and Volkswagen. Market demand has stimulated several machinery companies to invest large amounts of money and technical resources to research new industrial robots.

The first industry to use these robots was the automobile manufacturing industry, which requires various types of industrial robots such as stamping, welding, spraying, assembly, and transportation. In just a few years, machine manufacturing companies have developed more than a dozen types of robots, and automobile manufacturing companies invest more than 500 million yuan in robots each year, and this number is increasing year by year.

However, the obsolete production equipment did not become scrap metal, but was exported after overhaul - sold to the Soviets. This was not the act of unscrupulous businessmen, but an active request from the Soviet side. In their view, these sci-fi robots are really... too fragile. Those integrated circuits will become a pile of scrap metal under war conditions!
So, they chose safety.

Of course, there is another reason: it’s too expensive!
For the same production line, the price will at least double!
If humans can do it, why use expensive robots?

But it is different here. Here, human resources are a scarce resource.

Although true automated production has not yet been achieved, what is presented to them is just a production line under trial.

However, Joe, Carol and others were all stunned. They stood there with their eyes wide open, unable to believe what they saw.

As they watched, the robotic arms continued to weld, and in the arc of electric welding, the car body continued to change as it moved along the production line, becoming more and more of a complete vehicle.

They stood by the production line, watching the cars being built from scratch, from parts to bodies, and watched the few workers walking around the production line.

Everything here is like what is described in science fiction novels - people are no longer the main body of industrial production.

The welding robots continue to work, their movements always maintaining a high degree of stability and precision. The car bodies gradually become solid and beautiful under their welding, just like pieces of art.

"Good God, Joe, tell me, are we in the twenty-first century?"

Carol said excitedly:

“This is the future…”

"My God, compared to them, the auto factories in Detroit are like primitive society!"

A young man from Detroit said in an astonished tone that perhaps he had been to a car factory and witnessed how cars were produced.

Now, everything in front of him completely overturned his imagination. Everyone was shocked and scared to death!
"It's not just Detroit, it's us, and the entire United States. We are basically people from primitive society..."

For these Americans, they were once proud.

After all, they have been living in America's most glorious period since the day they were born.

In their eyes, it was the United States that defeated the Germans, the United States that defeated the Japanese, and the United States that won World War II. It was the United States that protected the world!
Their fathers were part of the Greatest Generation of Americans, and what about them?

We will take over this flag from our fathers and pass on this pride.

Today, the United States is the undisputed number one on the blue planet, whether in terms of economy, technology, or international influence.

They are proud and conceited as well.

But now, facing these industrial robots that seem to have come out of science fiction novels.

In an instant, all pride and arrogance came to an end.

This incredible production method completely overturned their cognition.

Such an impact is like a primitive man suddenly coming to modern society.

His first reaction was to be frightened to death.

They were really scared.

This is not an adjective but a dynamic word. At least for Joe, for a moment he didn't know if it was an illusion, but he really peed.

Not much, just a few drops!

But these few drops fully showed his inner fear and anxiety. Fortunately, he was not an eighty-year-old man and could still control his restraining muscles.

Facing the white robots surrounding the car production line.

As he watched them moving their arms to weld and complete their work, the novel "War of the Worlds" that he had read appeared in his mind.

It was like seeing robots made by aliens. At this moment, all the robots seemed to be separated from the production line. They turned into machines made of cold steel, moving back and forth on the production line to produce the cars they produced.

But soon those cars turned into armored vehicles, tanks, and airplanes, and these robots were just like what was described in the novel. They rushed into the city and easily destroyed human resistance.

This is the machine.

This is a robot.

Is this the future?

Joe didn't know, but he just stared at everything in front of him with his mouth wide open. If it weren't for his reason controlling him, he might have screamed out loud - how was this possible?
"How is this possible?"

Some people can't control their emotions, and they find it difficult to imagine, or believe, what they see.

If all this happened in the United States, they wouldn't find it strange, after all, the United States is number one on the blue planet.

It's like America invented all this and it's just a matter of course.

But now, the robots on this futuristic production line before their eyes are not made in the United States.

It was not even invented by the United States. It is a modern high-tech product that they have never seen before.

Such an impact is imaginable. After all, it completely overturns their perception of America as number one!
"...Each robot is controlled by an electronic computer, and its movements are controlled by programming. Compared with ordinary workers, it not only welds faster, but also has higher quality welds..."

In fact, this is just a relatively primitive industrial robot. It doesn’t even have a multi-joint arm. It cannot work as flexibly as the mechanical arms that were developed more than a decade later. It can only complete simple straight line welding and spot welding. In many places, it still needs the assistance of workers. But it still brought unprecedented impact to these young people from the United States.

Not to mention them, even Wells and others who had seen the application of industrial robots in newspapers and magazines were stunned.

At this moment, they found that the world they were familiar with was completely overturned, and they found themselves in this strange place.

This is not America, but this is the future!

Today, here, they entered a future world!
(End of this chapter)