After Lu Yuning returned to her studio, she sat before the drafting table, her mind filled with what Su Bai had said in the cafeteria at noon.
"A Sichuan peppercorn-picking robot..."
She bit her red lip, her fair fingers absentmindedly kneading the measuring tape.
In her eyes, Su Bai was an all-powerful, fabulously wealthy Boss. Since he had brought up the idea—and it even sounded rather sensible—did that mean she ought to take it seriously?
After all, if such a robot really existed, then whenever Boss took her out for mala dry pot in the future, she would no longer have to waste time picking out the Sichuan peppercorns.
With that thought, Lu Yuning picked up her phone somewhat awkwardly, opened WeChat, and found Chen Yusheng's profile picture.
Feeling a little nervous, she carefully composed her message several times, deleting and revising it before finally sending it over with caution.
Lu Yuning: [Shengsheng, are you busy right now? [Little Bunny Peeking.gif]]
Chen Yusheng replied quickly, almost instantly: [Not busy. I just got back from the lab and am drinking water in the living room. What is it, Yuning?]
Lu Yuning took a deep breath and typed with both hands around her phone: [Well... Boss took me out for mala dry pot at noon today. I'm rather afraid of the numbing spice, so I kept picking out the Sichuan peppercorns. Boss said you could develop a "Sichuan peppercorn-picking robot" in the lab, using visual recognition and a high-precision robotic arm to pick them out. I just wanted to ask whether this is really technically feasible?]
In the living room of the Ascott apartments, Chen Yusheng stared at the message on her phone screen and froze for a moment.
A Sichuan peppercorn-picking robot?
Her mind, accustomed to handling complex control algorithms and