Recently, China's first space mining robot was born at China University of Mining and Technology. In order to adapt to the microgravity environment in space, the robot has a six-legged mode, with three wheeled legs and three clawed legs. To solve the problem of drifting caused by weightlessness, the team imitated the claw spine structure of insects, and designed special claw spine feet for the space mining robot. This structure is an array-type claw spine. In a microgravity environment, it has stronger attachment and gripping capabilities. In the microgravity environment, it can not only enable the robot to stay fixed for sampling, but also allow the robot to move according to the terrain.
At the southern edge of the Taklamakan Desert, nearly a hundred construction machines are stepping up construction at the first ten-million-kilowatt-level integrated ‘sand, gobi and desert’base for wind, solar, thermal power and energy storage, in southern Xinjiang province. After completed and put into operation, it can provide 5 million kilowatts of reliable power support to the Sichuan-Chongqing region during evening peak hours.
The large unmanned transport aircraft TP1000 independently, developed by Yitong UAV successfully completed its maiden flight at Laixi Airport. This marks another major breakthrough in the field of high-end unmanned aviation equipment in China.
TP1000 is China’s first large unmanned transport aircraft with a payload capacity of 1 ton, and an airdrop function developed in accordance with airworthiness standards. It has a takeoff weight of 3.3 tons, payload of 1,000 kilograms, full-load range of 1,000 kilometers, and cargo hold volume of 7 cubic meters.
The team from the Institute of Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences has successfully developed a single - atom - thick metal, with a thickness of only one - two - hundred - thousandth of the diameter of a human hair. This marks the first time that large - area two - dimensional metal materials achievd in the world, opening up a new field of two - dimensional metal research. In future, this material is expected to bring about technological innovations in fields such as ultra - micro low - power transistors and transparent displays. The research results were published in the international academic journal Nature.
During the spring plowing season, AI - powered robots are moving from cities to countryside in Zhejiang province, expanding into more application scenarios in the fields. For example, an AI - powered seedling - counting machine can count more than 3,000 shrimp seedlings in 10 seconds, a robotic arm can transplant 30 seedlings in 40 seconds, and a driverless tilling machine can operate continuously for 24 hours.
Through the development of auxiliary tools such as data collection, farms can collect plant growth data continuously for 24 hours and conduct full - process tracking and supervision of plant protection, horticulture, water and fertilizer management, and other aspects. Compared with the traditional mode, this intelligent system reduces the farm's water consumption by 80%, pesticide use by 90%, and increases production efficiency by more than 15%.
