Guo Bing's life trajectory has obviously deviated.

Guo Bing, in another time and space, made a living by doing small businesses after his father was released from prison. The family's financial situation was always very difficult and he did not become rich until 2005. His father made a comeback based on his ability. His net worth once exceeded 50 million yuan, but he almost went bankrupt due to the economic crisis in 2008.

At that time, Guo Bing was studying at Harbin Institute of Technology. He started earning tuition fees by himself since his sophomore year. Sometimes he even sent money to his home because his father was imprisoned and his mother had a back disease and could not work for a long time. After graduating from a master's degree, Guo Bing even went to take the civil service exam, but fortunately his supervisor was advised to go back to study for a doctorate. After graduating from a doctorate, he stayed at school, from teaching assistant to lecturer, and promoted all the way to professor, and never had the experience of quitting and starting a company.

Now due to the changes that Song Weiyang has come, Xianjiu Group has developed well, and Guo Bing, a rich second-generation, is also more casual. He did not work part-time to make money during college, but instead devoted himself to studying and studying, and had the leisure to fly to Beijing to pursue the class flowers in his high school years. Now he has paid 100,000 yuan to start a business with his mentor.

"What project is your robot company doing?" Song Weiyang asked.

Guo Bing said: "Medical robot."

Song Weiyang frowned and said, "Why don't you engage in industrial robots?"

Guo Bing explained: "From the global industry status, industrial robots are mainly used in the automobile manufacturing industry. The foreign market has long been occupied by industry giants, and you should know what the situation in China's automobile manufacturing industry is. Few domestic auto manufacturers use robots. Even if they want to use it, they are face-saving projects and will give priority to purchasing foreign products."

"Do you smoke?" Song Weiyang took out a pack of yellow pandas.

Guo Bing waved his hand and said, "Don't smoke."

Song Weiyang put the cigarette in his mouth back into the box and asked, "Then has your medical robot been successfully developed?"

Guo Bing said: "It was successful, and its function was comparable to that of the first generation of the United States' 'Aesop'. It can imitate the human arm function and realize voice control settings, cancel the need for auxiliary personnel to manually control the endoscope, provide lens movements more accurately than artificial control, and provide doctors with a more direct and stable field of view."

"It's very good." Song Weiyang said.

Guo Bing smiled bitterly: "After the samples were prepared, my supervisor and I traveled to major hospitals across the country to personally sell our products. The market response was very awkward. Although it received unanimous praise from surgeons, no hospital was willing to spend money to buy it."

Song Weiyang asked: "Why? Is it not as good as a foreign product?"

"It is indeed not as good as the latest products abroad, but the fundamental reason is not this," Guo Bing said in detail. "First, China does not lack experienced doctors, and does not need to use robots to assist in surgery, at least our products are not needed; second, the price is too expensive, and most of the accessories for manufacturing robots need to be imported from abroad. There is no supporting supplier in China, and the annual maintenance cost of robots is also very high."

"There is nothing to do about this." Song Weiyang said.

Guo Bing said speechlessly: "Fortunately what we did was just the first-generation version of "Aesop". If we made "Da Vinci" it would be even more unsold. A handful of "Da Vinci" pliers would be worth 10,000 yuan. Three handfuls would be used for one operation, and they would have to be replaced after 10 use. Of course, what is done by "Da Vinci" is all cutting-edge surgery, and the medical expenses and surgical expenses are often hundreds of thousands. In this way, a handful of 10,000 yuan is not too expensive."

Song Weiyang smiled and said, "Then what did you and the tutor think at the beginning? Didn't you expect this situation?"

"It's expected," said Guo Bing, "but we think there are always big hospitals who are willing to buy it. You only need to sell one robot a year to make a profit, and you can sell two robots a year to make a profit, because this high-tech industry is subsidized by the state. As long as the market is slowly cultivated and developed, in another two or three years, you may be able to sell several units a year."

Song Weiyang said: "I didn't expect that even one of them could not be sold?"

"Yes." Guo Bing said depressedly.

Song Weiyang suddenly thought of the famous DJI and asked, "Do you know drones?"

"Airplane?" Guo Bing asked.

"Yes, drones." Song Weiyang said.

Guo Bing is obviously very familiar with the industry situation. He said: "China had drones as early as the 1960s, which were specifically used in the military field. In the 1980s, it began to turn to civilians, meteorological detection, aerial surveying, aerial mapping, aerial exploration, etc. A few years ago, China Southern Airlines developed the "Xiangniao" unmanned helicopter, which also includes forest fire detection and fishing ground patrol."

Song Weiyang instigated: "It's better not to make medical robots and switch to civilian drones."

"Is this thing a market?" Guo Bing asked.

"How could anyone do it without a market? Didn't you say China Southern Airlines has just released one?" Song Weiyang said.

Guo Bing said: "Civil drones are not cutting-edge technologies, and many scientific research institutions can make them. But the cost is too high and the scope of use is narrow. Professional operators are also required. In addition, units in need will order goods directly from large companies like China Southern Airlines. How can they purchase products from small companies?"

Song Weiyang originally thought that it could be used for aerial photography, but considering the current digital camera technology, he was too lazy to mention it again. Most of the films used in film shooting in the past few days. Could it be that the drone was hanging a large piece of film into the sky? As for digital cameras, it seems that the pictures taken are not very good, and the video storage space is also very small.

Of course, Song Weiyang is not a professional, so he dare not draw a conclusion easily. He took out his mobile phone, took out Jiang Wen's phone number and called: "Lao Jiang, happy Spring Festival!"

"Who are you?" Jiang Wen said in confusion.

"Song Weiyang." Song Weiyang said.

Jiang Wen immediately changed his attitude and said with a smile: "It's Boss Song, Happy New Year!"

Song Weiyang asked: "Are there any good digital cameras now? They can be used to shoot movies and TV shows."

"Yes, it's often used to shoot TV programs abroad," Jiang Wen said in detail, "but the picture effect is not very good, and it also requires later software conversion, and the pixels transferred are much worse than film."

Song Weiyang asked: "How big is this digital camera?"

Jiang Wen recalled: "It's quite big, weighing dozens or hundreds of pounds, and I don't know much."

Song Weiyang asked again: "Is there any portable one?"

"Wait, I'll ask for you." Jiang Wen hung up the phone immediately.

More than 20 minutes later, Jiang Wen called again: "The popular portable digital camera machine nowadays is a DVD machine, with hundreds of thousands of pixels, which is only for ordinary people to play. Of course, there are also some new directors from the film academy who use DVD machine to shoot DVD movies because they have no money and cannot invest."

Song Weiyang asked: "Can it be used for aerial photography?"

Jiang Wen smiled and said, "Stop talking nonsense. The hundreds of thousands of pixels are still very difficult to take at close range."

"Is there any better portable digital camera equipment?" Song Weiyang asked.

Jiang Wen said: "I just asked you about it and there is indeed such a machine. Hitachi launched a DVD camera more than two years ago. The DVD machine uses a tape, and the DVD machine takes it directly into the DVD format. When this machine was first launched, the pixels were only 1.1 million, and now it seems that there is a new model of 2 million pixels. In addition, it is a 12x zoom. If you want to take aerial photography, you can only shoot at a low altitude. The picture will be blurred if it is a little higher."

"How long can the video content be stored?" Song Weiyang continued to ask.

Jiang Wen said: "This kind of machine uses DVD discs as storage directly. As long as the battery is enough, it can theoretically store content for two hours."

"Thank you." Song Weiyang said.

"No thanks, I'll ask you a few questions," Jiang Wen stopped talking, and finally said, "Well... Boss Song, I want to ask you for help."

"Tell me." Song Weiyang said.

"You know about tax evasion? If you have any relationship, can you help me tell me about love?" Jiang Wen said.

Song Weiyang instantly realized who it was and smiled and said, "No problem, I can make a call, but I don't guarantee it will be useful."

Jiang Wen said: "That's enough, I'll think of other ways."

"Then I'll die first." Song Weiyang said.

Jiang Wen said: "No matter what the result is, Boss Song, I owe you a favor for this matter. If you have any use to me in the future, just open your mouth and never say anything!"

"Okay, beg me." Song Weiyang said.

With 2 million pixels and 2 hours of storage time, this kind of digital camera is barely enough, although the aerial photography effect is definitely eye-catching. Now that digital technology is developing rapidly, when Guo Bing develops the drone, the shooting pixels will definitely continue to improve.

In fact, in just eight months, high-definition digital camera technology will be launched. From a ten-year perspective, it is still a bit of a mess.

Song Weiyang just drove the hands-free one, and Guo Bing could hear it clearly throughout the whole process. Song Weiyang said: "Have you ever thought about combining digital cameras with drones for aerial photography in professional fields?"

Guo Bing shook his head and said, "It's too expensive. The usage fee of drones is not much cheaper than renting helicopters. If I were a TV director, I would definitely pay for renting helicopters directly."

"So expensive?" Song Weiyang said in confusion.

After another discussion, Song Weiyang finally realized that the drone in Guo Bing's mouth was not the kind of drone he remembered.

There are two types of civil drones nowadays. One is a winged one, which you can understand as a reduced version of a civil aviation passenger plane; the other is a single-rotor aircraft without wings, which you can understand as a reduced version of a helicopter. And no matter how it is reduced, it is very large in size and has a high manufacturing cost.

In the civil market, single-rotor drones have been popular in recent years, mainly because they are more convenient when they are launched, and there is no need to use a launcher or runway.

Compared with the later popular multi-rotor drones, the advantages of this single-rotor drone are that it has stronger load capacity and longer battery life. Therefore, at a time when battery technology is restricted, single-rotor drones have become the mainstream.

Of course, some people are studying drones like four propellers, but they can't fly for a long time and cannot be lifted too heavily, which has become a fatal flaw.

The multi-rotor drone can be carried forward in the future thanks to the improvement of battery and motor technology. The single-rotor drone has been eliminated because it is extremely difficult to operate and cannot be played by ordinary people. It also has high requirements for ambient temperature, and its manufacturing cost is several times higher!

Song Weiyang and Guo Bing analyzed the pros and cons and said: "I think multi-rotor drones will definitely be the mainstream in the future. They have low price and cost, low operational difficulty, and low environmental requirements. They only need to wait for battery technology and motor technology to develop."

"The problem is that there is no use value now. Who knows how many years it will take for battery technology to develop?" Guo Bing said.

Song Weiyang said: "We can make technical reserves first. The first step is to develop our multi-rotor drone technology; the second step is to design a control system to integrate the digital camera and the drone."

Guo Bing frowned and said, "If you do this, it is possible that the company will only invest but not produce in the next few years, and it will be entirely up to spend money to maintain it."

"I have money." Song Weiyang smiled.

"I'll discuss it with the tutor first," Guo Bing said, "I'm afraid my tutor will probably not agree. He used to do industrial robots in the research institute, and they were all funded by the state. Now that he has quit his job and started a business, he must have achieved something, so he chose medical robots. But you, a civilian drone... To be honest, he doesn't like it, it's too pediatric."

Song Weiyang said: "Everyone has ambition, I won't force it."

Guo Bing went back and made a phone call with his mentor, but it was exactly what he expected. Since Song Weiyang was unwilling to spend money to make medical robots, the mentor did not make any trouble and chose to go abroad directly. First, he could enter American companies to develop; second, he could learn and communicate, and after he had specific grasp of the industry situation and cutting-edge technology in the United States, he could return to China at that time.
Chapter completed!