"If surgical robots can be dostically produced, how low can the price of a surgical robot go?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.
Currently, the biggest issue with promoting surgical robots is that the price is too high.
The cost of a single surgical robot exceeds the lifeti salary of a lead surgeon.
For many small hospitals, it's completely not cost-effective.
If dostic surgical robots can bring the price down, the market would expand greatly.
"For dostic surgical robots, we can currently manage to get the price to about three to four million,"
Xu Jinfeng said truthfully, "At present, the most mature dostic laparoscopic surgical robots are priced about fifty percent lower than international surgical robots.
The price advantage is very apparent, but there's not much room to go lower. Mainly because many surgical robot patents are currently held by major foreign companies.
If we want to further reduce costs, we need to wait for these patents to expire and also develop so new patents ourselves."
Three million.
Chen Yiyang did so calculations.
A regular lead surgeon in a second-tier city might earn at most about five hundred thousand a year.
Three million is enough to hire a lead surgeon for six years.
Moreover, machines have operating costs; each use entails an expense, fair and square.
But that's not necessarily true for people.
Even if they work overti, there's no guarantee of overti pay.
If the machine is purchased and the hospital doesn't do well, if it breaks down, finding soone to fix it still incurs repair costs.
But that's not necessarily true for people, who might have to share the burden willingly.
So, even though dostic models can bring the price of surgical robots down to three million,
they still can't be the first choice for hospitals outside first-tier cities.
Furthermore, even if you have a surgical robot, you still need to hire soone specifically to operate it, which still costs money.
However, high-tech devices like computers and phones were also prohibitively expensive initially, beyond the reach of ordinary people.
Didn't their prices gradually co down later?
So in the field of surgical robots, which is bound to develop and whose market is bound to expand, there's still significant investnt potential.
If the surgical robot company Chen Yiyang invested in can steadily develop for a dozen years,
even if it doesn't keep up with the trend and beco a major surgical robot company,
as long as it retains so technical patents and so unique technology, it can still do well as a supplier.
Thus, Chen Yiyang finally decided to invest in the company.
He discussed the general terms of the investnt with Xu Jinfeng, and after seeing her off,
Chen Yiyang received a call from Yang Chengru, who invited him over for a al at his apartnt.
So Chen Yiyang brought two boxes of good tea and went straight to Yang Chengru's apartnt.
"How much is this tea worth?" Yang Chengru asked imdiately after glancing at the tea upon Yiyang's arrival.
"Don't worry. These were gifts from others. They never entered the market after being picked, so there's no price. It's such a small amount, and I don't drink it, so I'm giving it all to you,"
said Chen Yiyang as he set the tea down.
With great ambitions and familial support, Chengru is always very cautious about such matters.
"Have a seat," Yang Chengru motioned for Chen Yiyang to sit down.
He had bought so ingredients today to make hot pot for Chen Yiyang at his apartnt.
The two chatted while eating.
Soon, they ran out of topics.
Directly, Chen Yiyang said, "What did you want to talk to about today?"
"It's sothing good, I suppose," Yang Chengru thought for a mont before speaking, "I recently got so news.
Our country's comrcial floating power generation system is about to be developed successfully, with trials imminent.
Are you interested in getting involved? If so, the governnt can provide support and subsidies to set one up in Lin'an."
As a city focused on high-tech developnt, Lin'an naturally places importance on clean energies like wind power, having conducted three decentralized power projects previously.
This year, Lin'an's installed wind power capacity reached 50,000 kW, with ambitions to double that in the coming years.
There's a rumor online that wind power is practically useless, with no practical value.
It's even said that many regions in Europe and Arica have begun abandoning wind power because it's unusable.
So claim Huaxia's wind power projects exist rely to milk subsidies.
This rumor arose primarily due to past shortcomings in wind power.
While the investnt costs of wind power are high, the operating costs are low, and it's more environntally friendly than thermal power and safer than nuclear power.
Yet previously, wind power faced a major issue: the windy locations were too remote, far from cities.
So when electricity was generated, there was still the problem of transporting it to where it was needed, or it would simply go to waste.
Including in Europe and Arica, earlier wind power projects focused solely on generation rather than storage.
This led everyone to concentrate solely on generating electricity and then using the grid to transport it where needed.
However, in practice, the costs turned out too high.
In so areas, costs even surpassed those of thermal power.
This dampened enthusiasm for wind power generation.
Yet in recent years, with the rise of related industries like electric vehicles,
the energy storage sector has also grown rapidly.
So a simpler way to preserve wind power was discovered.
That is, storing the electricity imdiately after wind generation and then transporting it to areas not easily connected to the grid.
This, in turn, revitalized wind and photovoltaic power.
If energy storage can advance further, then the revolution in new energies like wind and solar will break through the final barrier.
So, given the current situation, wind power is no longer the "useless electricity" it once was but rather a very cheap source of energy.
However.
What Yang Chengru just ntioned was the comrcial floating power generation system.
What is that? Why does it sound so science fiction?
So Chen Yiyang asked, "What's this floating power generation system you ntioned? I haven't heard about it before."
"I don't know much about it either," Yang Chengru said. "I asked so related people, and they said it's hard to explain in detail, but they sent an image, saying it's roughly like what's in the picture."
As Yang Chengru spoke, he handed his phone to Chen Yiyang.
Chen Yiyang took a careful look at the picture on Yang Chengru's phone, thinking he rembered it being a screenshot from so North Arican sci-fi cartoon.
He vaguely recalled the animation possibly being called 'Big Hero 6'. Could it be the country has realized such a scientific scene from an animated film?
Big Hero 6 floating power generation system image.
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