Chapter 147 It is impossible to make the first flight within 18 months unless the N-S equation is solved!
The next day, Monday the 23rd.
"Yesterday, 16 domestic mid- to high-end nursing homes purchased a total of 25,200 Xiaoyuan robot caregivers, with a total order volume of 19.877 billion yuan." Meng Qiuyan walked slowly into the office and reported the news to Lu An.
Orders of less than 20 billion are not very large compared to the company's other business orders, but they are of great significance.
Obviously, the greatest significance of this order is that Xiaoyuan Robot has initially opened up the elderly care industry market. This industry has a gap of more than 5 million robot caregivers, which is equivalent to increasing the market size of 5 million high-net-worth families.
But then again, 19.8 billion orders is also a very large number. You must know that there were only about 700 domestic companies with revenue of more than 10 billion last year.
Lu An thought for a moment, then looked at Meng Qiuyan and asked: "How much has been the cumulative sales this year?"
Hearing this, Meng Qiuyan immediately replied: "According to last week's statistics, excluding this order, the cumulative sales have reached 107,000, so that’s 132,200.”
This number makes Lu An quite satisfied: “Well, yes, the application scenario of elderly care institutions seems to be very promising to exceed the sales volume of 80,000 to 100,000 this year.”
This estimate is based on the fact that the application scenario of elderly care institutions has just introduced robot caregivers. Although the entire market is large, it will definitely take some time for sales to truly explode, at least not this year.
In fact, the elderly care scene can reach the 100,000 sales estimated by Lu An, which is enough to cause a sensation in the industry, and there is endless room for imagination for future growth.
The demand for caregivers in the elderly care industry is huge, and Xiaoyuan robots are perfectly qualified for nursing positions. This means that in the elderly care scenario alone, there is a potential market size of millions of Xiaoyuan robot caregivers.
Meng Qiuyan couldn't help but say: "After all, the sales volume of Xiaoyuan Robots this year is estimated to exceed 320,000 to 380,000 units, and the revenue is expected to reach 252.5 billion to 300 billion. Oh my God——!"
This number even surprised Meng Qiuyan.
The annual sales volume for high-net-worth family customer groups has been raised to 250,000 units this year, because Xiaoyuan Robot's sales performance has been better than expected. It has sold more than 100,000 units now, and it is highly likely that it will sell another 150,000 units in the rest of this year.
This is like the price of a luxury car, and it can still increase in volume. Not to mention, the profit is much higher than that of a luxury car.
The Mercedes-Benz E400L-Hybrid, which sells for 798,000 yuan, has a profit per vehicle of approximately 50,000 to 70,000 yuan.
This car sold 9,802 units in China last year, less than 10,000 units. It is a niche model with low sales and difficult to amortize R&D. The actual marginal profit may be even lower.
The price of Xiaoyuan Robot is similar to this model, selling for 788,800 yuan. The profit of a single robot can reach 315,500 yuan.
Even if the profit of the Mercedes-Benz E400L-Hybrid is 70,000 yuan per bike, 4.5 units would have to be sold to equal the profit of a Xiaoyuan robot.
The key point is that the profit of this car has been completely exploded, and the sales volume has also been completely exploded.
It’s no wonder that several consortiums over there in the United States have launched a global bounty order with a sky-high price of tens of billions of dollars. Who wouldn’t be jealous after seeing this?
In the afternoon of the same day, Metaverse Intelligent Control issued an announcement.
The company has purchased 25,200 Xiaoyuan robots from 16 mid- to high-end elderly care institutions, with a total order value of 19.877 billion yuan, further broadening the boundaries of the humanoid robot business.
As soon as the news was released, it immediately attracted huge attention from the industry and the capital market.
At about 8 o'clock in the evening, a well-known domestic institution released a research report and analysis on the Metaverse Intelligent Control Xiaoyuan Robot.
Analysts said that Metaverse Intelligent Control's humanoid robot business will surpass bionic prosthetics this year and become the company's largest revenue business segment. With the business expansion of Xiaoyuan Robot, it is expected to hit a sales volume of 400,000 Xiaoyuan Robots this year.
· Yuanjie Intelligent Control is not a listed company. The company has not announced the profit of Xiaoyuan Robot. The outside world can only speculate. The analyst also mentioned the profit of Xiaoyuan Robot in the research report. His prediction is that the profit of a single robot is not less than 250,000 yuan, and the net profit is not less than 212,500 yuan.
In fact, the analyst's estimate is low. Xiaoyuan Robot's single profit is 315,500 yuan, and the net profit is 268,100 yuan.
However, even according to this analyst's estimate, it is quite outrageous in the eyes of outsiders.
This research report immediately caused a sensation in the capital market after it was released.
If calculated according to the analysis and estimates of this research report, Xiaoyuan Robot's revenue for the whole year this year is expected to reach 315.5 billion, and its net profit is expected to reach 85 billion.
It’s simply incredible!
This figure shocked the outside world, because this is only one business segment of Metaverse Intelligent Control.
In addition, there is also a bionic prosthetic business and a solid-state lattice battery business.
· No one dared to imagine how big the performance of Yuanjie Intelligent Control this year would be. Capital from all walks of life was so jealous that such a company did not even take a share.
Spurred by this news, Metaverse Intelligent Control Industrial Chain concept stocks also took off.
The stock price of Wanxiang Huitong refused to correct and ran all the way north. This is the only listed company in Big A that currently holds about 15% of the equity of Metaverse Intelligent Holdings.
The company's stock price quickly exceeded the thousand yuan mark, reaching a record high of 1,059.51 yuan. The corresponding market value reached 503.2 billion, reaching the 500 billion mark for the first time.
No one would have thought that the market value of this company would have fallen below 2 billion three years ago. In just three years, it has reached 500 billion, and its market value has increased by a full 240 times.
Wanxiang Huitong is also getting better now. Not only can it steadily earn 15% of Metaverse Intelligent Control's dividends every year, but its own performance revenue has also begun to strengthen and increase steadily.
As Lu An's good brother and staunch ally, Qin Yiyun found it difficult for Wanxiang Huitong not to take off.
The time comes to the end of May.
At home in the villa, Lu An, sitting in front of the computer, couldn't help but take a deep breath.
"Finally done."
Near the end of the month, Lu An finally developed the first version of the new CFD software based on the analytical solution of the Navier-Stokes equation.
However, this version is only applicable to the aerospace field.
It's not working well in other fields. It's not that Luan can't develop it, but it takes time.
Him is the only one doing this. Being able to solve an area so quickly is already very efficient.
The aerospace field is a top priority, after all, it is related to the next plan of Star Power Space.
Other fields must also be pursued, but Lu An thinks about it, one is the first and the other two are big.
Because there were too many, he could only handle them all by himself.
"Just find some time to develop a personal AI assistant." Lu Anxin thought and nodded to himself.
With the assistance of AI, Lu An can be much more relaxed on his own, and his efficiency can be improved without the involvement of others.
The Star Stream software tool developed by Lu An has an extremely wide range of applications, covering almost all engineering and scientific fields involving fluid flow, heat transfer,
Mass transfer level chemical reactions.
Aerospace and defense, automotive engineering, energy and power, construction and environmental engineering, electronics and semiconductors, shipbuilding and ocean engineering, chemical and process engineering, biomedicine and medical devices, etc.
Each of these major categories has a series of subcategories. For example, aerospace is subdivided into:
Aircraft design: wing/fuselage launch optimization, high-lift device analysis, stall/tremor prediction, transonic shock wave control.
Missiles and rockets: inter-stage separation flow field, launch pad flame deflection, warhead re-entry heat load.
Engine: turbine blade cooling, combustion chamber combustion efficiency, nozzle thrust vector control, compressor surge simulation.
Hypersonic speed: re-entry vehicle thermal protection, plasma flow, scramjet combustion.
Let's do it slowly. Lu An is not in a hurry to get the aerospace field that he urgently needs. As for other industries, just wait.
The next day, Lu An came to the temporary headquarters of Star Dynamics Aerospace Company.
It is worth mentioning that Lu An did not serve as the CEO of Star Power Aerospace, otherwise he would be too busy, so he personally appointed Luo Guanghua to take charge of Star Power Aerospace.
Luo Guanghua is a talent supported by the Aerospace Science and Technology Group and has rich experience.
Lu An is not worried at all that he will turn to his old employer. Originally, his old employer is one of the major shareholders of Star Power Aerospace, and the real core technology is in his own hands. It doesn’t make much difference who takes the position of CEO, as long as the ability is in place and it is not a scheming insider lurking in from the outside.
At 11 o'clock in the morning, Lu An convened a meeting with the main heads of the company's seven major departments, as well as many deputy chief engineer-level scientific and technical personnel. The people sitting around the table in the conference room included Wu Guangyu, Wang Tiejun, Dmitry Petrov and others. Among the 20 participants,
5 were old experts from the former Soviet Union era and were all world-class aerospace engineers.
Er Mao did not want them, but Hua Guo decisively accepted them. They have lived in the country for more than ten or twenty years, and they speak Chinese more fluently than their native language.
Lu An did not hesitate. He looked around at everyone and said, "Let me tell you about the next project plan of Star Power Aerospace. We will not develop traditional rockets. We will skip this stage directly and we will develop recyclable rockets."
"The project will be approved next month, and I will give the project cycle 18 months. That is to say, in November next year, the first rocket of Star Power Aerospace, and it will be a recyclable rocket, will make its first flight."
Andrei Novikov was shocked on the spot: "What are you talking about? Developing and designing a brand-new rocket within 18 months, or a recyclable rocket for its first flight? How is this possible? Absolutely impossible!"
Cheng Shuqiang, who was present at the meeting, also said: "Comrade Lu An, are you kidding? You are probably not an outsider, and you know that it takes at least five years for a brand new rocket project to go from establishment to launch, and even ten or fifteen years is normal."
Wang Tiejun also said: "Yes, 18 months, this is simply a fantasy. This time may not be enough for technical demonstration."
The experts attending the meeting also nodded.
Petrov said: "The complex system of rocket research and development is like a bottomless quagmire. Every step involves massive calculations, simulations, tests and iterations."
Chief Engineer Wu Guangyu frowned. He turned on the conference screen projection, and after some operations, he pointed at the densely populated screen. Ma's task Gantt chart said: "Propulsion system optimization, structural overlap reduction iteration, thermal protection ground test..."
He turned to look at Lu An: "Each of them requires massive wind tunnel tests or fluid dynamics simulations. Traditional CFD simulates the startup characteristics of a complete flight envelope, which takes weeks or even months at least."
“This does not include the time for repeated iterative optimization. The entire cycle is only eighteen months, one and a half years—” Wu Guangyu stopped talking at this point, but the meaning of shaking his head was already clear.
Dmitry, who was present at the meeting, immediately spread his hands with his palms facing up, shrugged and said:
"If we want to get the first flight within 18 months, unless a miracle happens in this world, unless a god-level mathematical genius appears and solves the century-old problem of the Navier-Stokes equation, unless a new set of simulation experiment software tools is born based on the analytical solution of this equation."
Hey! What a coincidence!
Lu An said nothing, just smiled slightly.