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Chapter 228 - 175: This Question... Has a Problem

Chapter 228: Chapter 175: This Question... Has a Problem

"Crackle and pop!"

In front of the desk, Meng Lang typed rapidly on the keyboard, as strings of characters appeared and disappeared swiftly on the screen within the dialog box.

Ordinary though it was, the brother with a strong will in spite of his physical disability was still taking his open-source tasks seriously and completing them.

A batch of code had been updated in his mind, and Meng Lang quickly typed it out while the memory was fresh.

However, compared to the previous few times, his achievements this time were clearly far less.

At best, it had just polished his "neural system model" to perfection and improved some peripheral databases.

But there was little innovation in terms of the core algorithm and content.

The crux of the matter still lay in the three major mathematical challenges!

Meng Lang moved his fingers and involuntarily glanced at a piece of information he had just printed out.

This episode’s technical appendix from "Ordinary Road" was a detailed explanation of "Leg Mechanical Prosthetics Technology."

With a completely bionic structure, the internal parts were extremely precise, and just the diagrams alone had Meng Lang printing out no less than dozens of pages.

The mechanical design part was Meng Lang’s blind spot, practically a "Heavenly Book" to him. He could only exclaim with admiration, "Beautiful," "Awesome," and "Impressive, though I don’t quite get it..."

However, part of it was within Meng Lang’s area of expertise.

And that was one of the most essential core technologies it contained... "Motor Nerve Prosthetic Technology!"

Neurological Prosthetics, also known as Neurological Repair Technique.

It’s a discipline related to neuroscience and biomedical engineering, designed to help various disabled and paralyzed patients regain their compromised functions.

For instance, the most widely-used artificial cochlear implantation has been successfully performed in over 700,000 cases worldwide, helping countless deaf patients regain their hearing.

However, this is just a Junior application.

The cutting-edge of Neurological Prosthetics pushes forward to another dazzling jewel of science—Brain-Computer Interface Technology!

By implanting a micro-device into the brain to read its thoughts, and then using short-range Bluetooth technology to control mechanical limbs.

Elon Musk, known as "Iron Man," is said to be working on this thing recently.

This involves not only neuroscience, medicine, and biology but also computer science, neural signal simulation, and other complex fields.

To design prosthetics that can mimic normal biological neural signals, one must accurately simulate the nonlinear input/output (I/O) parameters of normal functioning tissue.

The computer modeling needed to achieve the mutual conversion of neural signals and electrical signals is indeed a complex task.

Coincidentally, the "neural system model" that Meng Lang had been working on touched on this aspect.

The most advanced bionic mechanical prosthetics in the world are now capable of simple movement controlled by the brain, and there’s even Junior tactile feedback.

But its practicality and cost are nowhere near the scale for widespread application.

However, the technical content of the prosthetic technology Meng Lang had was far beyond the current world’s cutting-edge level.

Apart from the finely crafted mechanical design structure, its distinguishing feature from today’s technology was the use of Junior "neural docking technology"!

Unlike the dense control nerves of the hands and brain, leg movement functions don’t need to be as flexible as the hands nor handle the vast signal processing tasks of the central nervous system.

Therefore, the neural structure of the legs is relatively simple.

It involves the sciatic nerve, cutaneous nerves, peroneal nerve, tibial nerve, and so on.

So, leg mechanical prosthetics are relatively easier to achieve.

The blueprint for these mechanical limbs included two parts; one part was the "port" tightly connected to the limb and nerves, to be surgically installed at the end of the amputated limb.

The other part was the main body of the mechanical prosthetic.

This technology didn’t require implanting chips into the brain. When in use, one simply had to insert the mechanical limb into the "port" to complete the mutual conversion of neural and electrical signals, achieving easy control of the neural connection.

Such mechanical prosthetics not only had strong anti-interference capabilities but also were very convenient to switch out, with a modular design that could be replaced at any time.

"The civilian and military value of this thing seems pretty good!" Meng Lang reflected.

Naturally, on the civilian side, such flexible prosthetics were virtually a blessing for the thousands of disabled people worldwide.

Add a layer of synthetic skin, and you’d blend into the crowd.

If you don’t use your disability certificate to get benefits, nobody could tell you get to ride the bus for free!

As one could imagine, once mass-produced commercially, it could open another lucrative revenue stream for oneself.

The impact on the military was even more profound. These mechanical limbs offered effortless control and, in terms of speed and strength, far exceeded ordinary soldiers.

In a sense, they were a form of "endoskeleton armor."

More compact and flexible than bulky exoskeletons, they could fight and run once the material was upgraded.

If Yan Weiwei were to don such steel long legs, that scene...

Can you imagine an ordinary soldier crossing twenty kilometers of heavy terrain at Usain Bolt’s pace, changing his battery, and then plunging into battle, kicking and blasting through the steel plating of an armored vehicle?

The strength of a semi-mechanized human isn’t overly exaggerated in films and TV shows.

How many soldiers return from war physically disabled?

If this technology were to become widespread, by the year 2043, how many more super-soldiers could humanity put on the front line?

Although the major issue of "mad disease" hasn’t been solved, this might only cause some trivial changes on the battlefield.