The Light of Domestic Products: The whole world begs me to sell

Chapter 447 The High Price of Prosthetic Limbs

Hu Lai frowned.

After watching the video of the boy with a broken arm, his first reaction was that a prosthetic should be installed on the boy's disabled left hand.

But reminded by thousands of comments from netizens, he realized that this is not just a matter of installing a prosthetic limb.

indeed.

Now Phoenix Group's bionic robots have been qualitatively improved in terms of flexibility and precision.

If it is indeed possible to apply the mechanical control technology on bionic robots to prosthetics, as netizens said, it will really bring new technological experiences to people with disabilities and bring about huge life changes.

After having this idea, Hu Lai soon came to the bionic robot department of Phoenix Group in person.

At this time, the bionic robot department has experienced the design of a variety of bionic robots with different purposes, such as "family version nanny robot", combat robot and escort robot, and the size of the department has been different from before.

The entire department is full of voices and everyone's faces are full of vigor. It is indeed the hottest and most popular department in the Phoenix Group.

soon.

Hu Lai came to the office of Du Ming, the head of the bionic robot department and a senior engineer.

"Old Du, I came here specially today because I have something to trouble you."

"Look at this video to see if we can now apply 'bionic robot' arm technology to disabled people."

Du Ming was both surprised and delighted by Hu Lai's arrival. After hearing Hu Lai's words, he didn't dare to neglect, so he quickly took the phone and checked it carefully.

After carefully watching the video of the little boy with one arm, Du Ming pushed the glasses frame and said:
"Boss, although I'm not a professional researcher on prosthetics, but like the little boy in the video is disabled, he may not need our 'bionic robotic arm' technology."

"The prosthetic limbs currently on the market can fully meet the daily requirements of little boys."

Ok?
Hu Lai was taken aback for a moment, with a rather surprised expression on his face.

Du Ming meant that the prosthetics in the market are already very advanced and can meet his living requirements?

He was a little surprised, but he really didn't know much about the prosthetics market.

Du Ming also saw Hu Lai's surprise, and explained:
"Boss, in fact, the current prosthetic technology is already very advanced."

"Let me introduce to you. First of all, the first type is the 'decorative' prosthesis that we are familiar with in the traditional sense. This kind of 'decorative' prosthesis has no function and is designed purely to make up for the appearance defects of the limbs."

"The second type is also the one that has been popularized in recent years - the 'myoelectric' prosthesis."

"This kind of prosthetic not only has the same realistic appearance as the 'decorative' prosthetic, but also can obtain the 'myoelectric signal' from the muscles of the residual limb after wearing the prosthesis, and finally control the motor of the prosthesis through the 'myoelectric signal', so that the prosthesis can do act differently."

"Of course, the principle of this 'myoelectric' prosthesis is almost the same as the bionic arm of our 'bionic robot'. The more sensitive the joints and the higher the degree of freedom, the higher the price."

"As for the little boy in the video you just mentioned, he can basically meet the requirements of his daily life with this 'myoelectric' prosthesis."

After Du Ming explained, Hu Lai already had a general understanding in his heart.

Generally speaking, the prosthetic limb market is not as backward as Hu Lai originally expected. Although the technology is not as advanced as the "bionic robot" of the Phoenix Group, it can be regarded as entering the stage of "bionic control".

After making a big oolong, Hu Lai returned to the office from the bionic robot department.

but.

After this incident, Hu Lai still had a pimple in his heart, and he kept thinking about the smiling sunny boy in the video who took care of the sick family with one arm.

After thinking for a while, Hu Lai finally decided to find out about the little boy himself, and planned to give the little boy a pair of the best prosthetic limbs.

Immediately, Hu Lai took out his mobile phone to find Chen Hai's phone number himself. He needed to find the address of the little boy first.

"Chen Bureau, I would like to trouble you with one thing. I need to find someone."

Chen Hai was a little surprised, and suddenly became nervous.

"Mr. Hu, tell me, who do you need to talk to?"

"If it's from China, as long as you provide relevant information, I can promise you to find this person for you within two days at the latest; if it's from abroad..."

Hu Lai hurriedly laughed and said:

"Chen Ju, it's not that serious...it's just an eight or nine-year-old kid, and his family has posted videos on Douyin in recent days."

Hu Lai quickly explained the cause and effect.

After Hu Lai finished speaking, Chen Hai praised Hu Lai for being very caring, and agreed on the phone.

"This matter is a small matter and a good matter. Mr. Hu, please wait a moment, and I will arrange for someone to investigate right away."

"it is good!"

After saying this, Hu Lai hung up the phone.

Five minutes later, he received a text message from Chen Hai.

It turned out that the boy with the broken arm was called Bei Haoyu. He was nine years old this year and lived in a fourth-tier city in northern Hunan. When he was six years old, he completely lost his left arm in an accident.

And his family conditions can only be regarded as a very ordinary ordinary family, and there is a five-year-old sister in the family.

After mastering the information, Hu Lai didn't say much, and immediately arranged the plane for the next day, planning to fly to Xiangbei with Zhang Zhang to see the nine-year-old child.

Early the next morning, which happened to be the weekend, Hu Lai and Zhang Zhang, led by the person in charge of the local Phoenix Group franchise store, came to Bei Haoyu's home.

He didn't bring reporters with him on this trip, and he didn't even disturb the community. When Bei Haoyu's house door opened, Bei Haoyu's parents showed a slightly vigilant and disturbed look.

"Hello, we are employees of the Phoenix Group. This time, we saw you posting a video on Douyin. We wanted to visit Bei Haoyu's children."

Hu Lai sincerely reported his intentions.

Bei Haoyu's parents were about 36 and [-] years old. After hearing that Hu Lai and the others were from the Phoenix Group, although the hostility between the two of them was a little less, they still kept looking at the three of them, obviously very defensive.

Such a scene was also expected by Hu Lai, when he was about to explain further to the two adults, he saw Bei Haoyu standing behind the two adults.

At this time, Bei Haoyu was looking at Hu Lai and Director Zhang curiously, his clear eyes were still as sunny and warm as in the video.

Hu Lai couldn't help but nodded and smiled at him.

at this time.

Hu Lai suddenly saw Bei Haoyu coming out from behind the two adults, then walked towards the door shyly and looked at him.

Just when Hu Lai was also a little surprised, Bei Haoyu suddenly said:
"Hi uncle, are you Hu Laihu, general manager of Phoenix Group?"

Hu Lai was taken aback and said in surprise:

"you know me?"

Bei Haoyu nodded and said:
"Well, I know you."

After saying this, he looked at Director Zhang.

"I still know this uncle. This uncle should be Manager Zhang of Phoenix Group."

Now it's the turn of Director Zhang to grow a big mouth.

He and Hu Lai looked at each other, no one thought that Bei Haoyu, a child of eight or nine years old, would know the two of them.

Hu Lai suddenly became curious and said with a smile:

"Little friend, how do you know us?"

Bei Haoyu looked a little shy, pulled the sweater on his left arm, and then whispered:

"Uncle Hu, Uncle Zhang, I'm a fan of Phoenix Group."

"We reuse the products produced by your Phoenix Group. Your various top technologies and the 'accompanying robots' produced by you have all brought unimaginable help to mankind. You are the light of human technology!"

"Our classmates are saying that Phoenix Group is the best technology company in the world!"

"Not only me, but many of our classmates are your fans!"

Hearing this, Hu Lai felt a burst of comfort and pride in his heart.

He wanted to say a few words, but when he reached the point of his mouth, he could only nod and smile at Bei Haoyu.

They just did a little bit of what they should do, a little bit of meager things.

At this time, Bei Haoyu's parents also reacted.

Of course they also knew about the Phoenix Group, but they never thought that a tiktok video would actually attract the legendary Phoenix Group's bigwigs to visit.

Both of them looked a little at a loss, and with apologetic enthusiasm on their faces, they invited Hu Lai and the other three to come in quickly.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Hu, Mr. Zhang, please come inside."

Naturally, Hu Lai, Director Zhang and the others would not care.

The three of them walked into the house smiling, and it was only then that Hu Lai realized that the family's income might be more ordinary than he had imagined.

However, he did not ask for these details in detail.

He came to Bei Haoyu's home today, mainly to find out about Bei Haoyu's situation, and then presented him with a pair of prosthetic limbs, which can be regarded as doing his best to help Bei Haoyu.

At this time, Bei Haoyu said that he was a fan of the Phoenix Group, which made Hu Lai feel that this incident was of great significance.

He sat down next to Bei Haoyu, and after a few words, he brought up the topic of Bei Haoyu's arm disability.

Hu looked to Bei Haoyu's parents and said:
"Both, with all due respect, I only saw Bei Haoyu's left arm is disabled through the Douyin video..."

"At his current age of eight or nine, it seems that it is better to install a good prosthetic for him... Having a prosthetic can not only make the appearance more beautiful, but also allow Bei Haoyu's left palm to recover more movement ability……"

What Hu Lai said was not very clear, but Bei Haoyu's parents showed embarrassment when they heard it.

Hu Lai took a special look at Bei Haoyu, only to see that he was sitting next to him, and he looked down at the ground when he heard what Hu said.

After a while, Bei Haoyu's father said slowly:
"Mr. Hu... Actually, it's not that we don't want to use it for our children, but that better prosthetics are too expensive, and we can't afford them with our conditions."

Hu Lai frowned imperceptibly.

Bei Haoyu's father also seemed to know that it was not easy for a big man like Hu Lai to come to his home in person, so he quickly continued after sorting out his language:
"Mr. Hu, you don't know about the prosthetic limb market."

"Now our domestic prosthetics market is basically monopolized by foreign brands. The Ottobock brand from Germany and the Ossur brand from North America have occupied nearly 70% of the market share in the whole market, while our domestic brand is only the 'Germany' from Taizhou Province. Lin' can barely have some market share."

"After these foreign brands monopolized the market, the prices of high-end prosthetics have remained high. We ordinary people spend too much to buy a prosthetic!"

"Not to mention the best prosthetics, even mid-level imported prostheses that are barely usable cost tens of thousands of yuan; ordinary prostheses that cost thousands of yuan are either purely decorative prostheses, or they are useless at all. use!"

"Just like the 'myoelectric' prosthesis you just mentioned is currently the most popular in the world. Any one is basically more than 3 yuan, and even a domestic one costs more than 1 yuan!"

Tens of thousands? !

Hu Lai was taken aback, he really didn't expect such a high price for a prosthetic that doesn't look too advanced!
You must know that even the top-notch nanny robots and escort robots of the Phoenix Group only sell for about 10 yuan in China!
That is the most powerful bionic robotic arm in the world, and the cost is as high as 3 to [-] yuan!

However, after listening to what Bei Haoyu's father said, he could understand why the price of prosthetic limbs could not continue to drop.

German and North American companies have monopolized 70% of the prosthetics market, while domestically produced prostheses have not brought any competitive pressure at all. What reason do these Western companies have to cut prices?
joke.

Think capitalists are philanthropists?

Phoenix Group and Yanguo enterprises can lower the market price when they enter an industry. What is the reason?
It was the Phoenix Group, and it was Yanguo's domestic companies that put enough competitive pressure on those foreign companies that they had to cut prices!
Seeing that Hu Lai did not speak, Bei Haoyu's father sighed slightly and continued:

"Actually, if it's only 3 yuan, we can get one for our children by gnashing our teeth."

"But now Haoyu is still young, and he is still growing. We have consulted with shops that sell prosthetic limbs. They said that for a child like Haoyu, he is growing every year, and he needs to be replaced every two to three years. Prosthetic limbs, otherwise the residual limb will not match the socket, and it will be very uncomfortable to wear..."

"so……"

Hu Lai was silent for a moment.

He completely understood Bei Haoyu's father's sadness.

Who in the world doesn't want to give their children good prosthetics?
But in the face of a "one-off consumption" that needs to be replaced every two years, and costs 3 to [-] yuan, how do ordinary families choose?
Families like Bei Haoyu are not rich in the first place, and for them, the 3 yuan every two years may be the last straw that overwhelms their lives!
Hu Lai looked at Bei Haoyu's father, but found that he looked down at the ground.

Maybe it was ashamed, maybe it was because I felt sorry for the child, but at this moment, Hu Lai couldn't help but feel a little sad.

After a long time, it seemed that something was wrong with the atmosphere.

Bei Haoyu's father raised his head, looked at Hu Lai, forced a smile and said:
"However, there is still hope for this matter. Our family Bei Haoyu has been talking about it all the time. It would be great if the Phoenix Group can enter the 'prosthetic limb market'!"

"When the time comes, the price will definitely come down!"

Hu Lai suddenly felt ashamed and panicked.

(End of this chapter)