Chapter 163 The new era of "smart elderly care" has arrived
Fu Chen and others read the contents of the document with exclamation written all over their faces.
To achieve Lu An's series of design goals, there are really many technologies that need to be overcome. If it weren't for the big BOSS, they felt that this would be a castle in the air and impossible to achieve.
After a moment, Fu Chen looked at Lu An and said: "Boss, even if we can develop these technologies, the cost will probably go through the sky. It is even 10 times the total cost of Xiaoyuan robot."
The total cost of Xiaoyuan robot is 470,000 yuan each, and if it exceeds 10 times, it will be nearly 5 million yuan.
Lu An thought for a moment, shook his head and said, "Not only that, but it has to be increased by an order of magnitude."
Everyone present was shocked when they heard this number. Fu Chen said in surprise: "An order of magnitude more? Is it more than 50 million?"
But when I thought about it, to achieve the design goals in the document and integrate so many advanced technologies, it is indeed impossible to be cheap, and suddenly it didn't feel so outrageous.
The most important thing is whether the current technology can achieve the design goals. This is the most important point.
As for the design and development of bionic humans, Lu An does not consider commercialization issues.
Hence, the most advanced technology and the best hardware materials are used, and the cost cannot be diluted through large-scale manufacturing in large quantities, so the overall cost will naturally not be low.
For a long time in the future, bionic humans with this level of technology will definitely be the product of true niche private customization.
At the end, Lu An said: "The task has been assigned to you. Let's finish the emotion simulation engine first."
The development task assigned to Fu Chen and the others is relatively easy and requires time and manpower. The development of the emotion simulation engine is mainly based on the facial and voice micro-expression database to produce situational reactions.
The main task of this section is to collect human samples. The goal is to collect 8×107 human samples.
Fu Chen and others nodded.
Lu An finished his instructions and left, going next door to learn about the development progress of nano-lattice adaptive alloys.
It is worth mentioning that the bionic man’s chip module still uses the 28-nanometer process. Because the robot is much larger than a smartphone, there are no too stringent requirements for the process technology.
Mobile phone chips, especially system-level S0C chips, are integrated into a space the size of a fingernail.
The bionic man has a lot of space, a space as big as a fist will do. If it is not enough, then double it, or even super double it, and the computing power resources and so on will still be enough to explode the mobile phone chip.
As for the degree of intelligence, the key lies in the software algorithm.
In the following days, Lu An basically focused on technical conquering.
The things he has to do now include the development of Lingxi's intelligent body, the development of nano-lattice adaptive alloy materials, and the development of bionic human hardware bodies.
The development of other industry versions of the Simulation Experiment Simulation Software Star Stream Tool was suspended by him. It would make people numb just thinking about developing so many versions by one person.
Let’s develop the AI assistant Lingxi first. When the efficiency increases, it won’t matter no matter how many versions there are.
As for the "Star Arrow 1" project of Star Dynamic Aerospace, with Wu Guangyu's top expert team and the support of the Star Stream software tools, Lu An does not need to participate. He can rest assured that he will be the master of the project and just wait for the first flight in November next year.
Including the "Lu An Telescope" project led by Huang Zongsheng, the ideas have been given, and its R&D lineup is also luxurious, and Lu An is not required to participate.
Time quickly comes to September.
Xiaoyuan’s robot caregivers have begun to gradually enter the elderly care community.
The dozen or so elderly care institutions that had previously placed orders have now been gradually put into use. Many outside media are also paying close attention to the performance of the robot caregivers in the elderly care communities.
CBD center of a second-tier city.
During the lunch break, Xia Leran, a thirty-year-old urban white-collar worker, took out his mobile phone and opened an APP after finishing lunch.
This is an exclusive APP newly developed by a senior care community called "Jinhui", and this senior care community has already deployed Xiaoyuan robot caregivers.
Because of work reasons, he was unable to take care of his old father and had to send him to a nursing home. However, Xia Leran had always been uneasy, fearing that his old father would be abused by caregivers in the nursing home.
The place where he can work is thousands of kilometers away, and he cannot know what happened at the first time.
However, this is all in the past tense.
Xia Leran can now use the exclusive APP to learn about his father’s living conditions in the nursing home anytime and anywhere. The caregiver who takes care of his father has been replaced by a Xiaoyuan robot.
He can see his old father’s work and rest data and the robot’s care log through the first-person perspective of Xiaoyuan’s robot caregiver at any time.
This APP is really good, five‐star praise.”
Especially the real-time aspect, which was absolutely impossible to achieve in the past.
Family members can check the current condition of the elderly at any time through the APP, that is, send instructions to the Xiaoyuan robot through the APP, and then they can see the current situation of the elderly through the first-person perspective of the Xiaoyuan robot.
There is a screen in front of the Xiaoyuan robot, which can also make video calls with the elderly.
The vast majority of family members are full of praise for this APP, but being able to follow it in real time and see it is undoubtedly more reassuring.
Just over a month ago, the reputation of the "Jinhui" retirement community was not good.
Especially the area dedicated to disability and dementia, which once required the highest proportion of nursing staff to be on duty, had a depressing atmosphere and received the most complaints from family members.
But now, with 80 Xiaoyuan robot caregivers put into use in this community, in just over a month, complaints from family members have plummeted by 70%, and the reputation has improved sharply.
This is all due to the fact that family members can understand the living conditions of the elderly in the nursing home in real time through the APP.
How the elderly are doing can be easily understood through the logs of the robot caregivers.
The content is very detailed, such as what is the food in the nursing home today, how the elderly are eating, how many steps they took today, playing chess in the morning, sunbathing in the afternoon, etc., etc., etc., family members can learn in detail through the APP.
For example, Uncle Wang in this retirement community suffers from severe Alzheimer's disease and is irritable and irritable. He refuses to be approached by strangers, and may even knock over his own daughter's food.
Now there is a Xiaoyuan robot caregiver assigned to take care of him. The robot caregiver has no personal negative emotions and is absolutely patient and precise.
When Uncle Wang resists, the robot caregiver will not forcefully approach him, but will keep a safe distance and play the Pingtan that he liked when he was young.
While his mood was slightly calmer, he completed the medication and cleaning with an imperceptible softness.
Xia Leran looked at his old father's living conditions in the past week through the APP. All health indicators were very good, and he was immediately relieved.
The first-person video recorded by Xiaoyuan's robot caregiver shows an old father playing chess with another old man, who is very energetic.
Xia Leran closed the APP with satisfaction. He originally planned to change his old father to a nursing home, but now it seems that there is no need.
Not only the "Jinhui" senior care community, but also other senior care communities that have successively launched Xiaoyuan robots.
Most family members are very satisfied with using Xiaoyuan robot caregivers to take care of the elderly. The most satisfying thing is that no matter where they are, they can understand the living conditions of the elderly in real time through the APP
.
Of course, it is not without noise, nor is it a chorus of praise.
Since Xiaoyuan robot entered the elderly care scene, public opinion has been that "robots are cold and impersonal", and some elderly people and their family members also had initial doubts.
However, Metaverse Intelligent Control and elderly care institutions are also cooperating to hold open day activities, allowing the elderly and their families to interact with Xiaoyuan robots in person and experience its gentle voice, stable companionship, and reliable protection at critical moments.
No matter what the noise from the outside world is, a new era of "smart elderly care" has arrived. This is an objective fact that no one can deny.