Monday, regular meeting.

Rod introduced the latest plan for a modified robotic arm, which not only sounded feasible, but also gave the boss a smile of satisfaction and approval in his calm and confident statement. This expression is not common on the face of this man in his early 40s.

DeRob has been developing intelligent robotic arms since its inception, and owner Karen Sloman and his older brother Aaron Sloman have worked for Google, IntuitiveSurgical, and Lumus since graduating from MIT, not only in the United States, but also in other technologically distinctive countries, such as Israel.

For these two brothers, intelligence and ambition are indispensable good friends for career success. But compared to Aaron's intelligence, his younger brother Karen Sloman seems to be slightly inferior, and he is also much less ambitious.

The industry knows that the market size of surgical robots will reach $20 billion by 2020 from $3.2 billion in 2014.

When Karen resigned from Intuitive Surgical in 2011 to establish DeRob, she focused on solving the problem of harvesting apples in orchards in Washington state, where the apple robot has four or twelve arms and three fingered palms and can pick 10,000 apples per hour.

Karen believes it's going to be a huge market, and he's tackling real problems.

During the years that Aaron provided arms and augmentation technology for surgical robots, he seemed to be completely oblivious to his brother's accomplishments, and only thought about how to not destroy the apples and how to do a good job of sorting the apples while they were being harvested.

DeRob's latest picking robot can already distinguish the size, moisture, and nutritional value of apples, pick and complete the classification at the same time, and all farm operations are almost all completed by intelligent robots, and manpower can be almost reduced to zero.

To put it simply, a person can do all the work like a virtual game while sitting at home and using remote control, and if the controller wants to sleep, the robot will do it even better than when it has control.

Perhaps seeing that Aaron not only gained fame but also made much more money than himself, Karen was a little unable to sit still, and after Christmas he was committed to shifting the company's focus from fertility robots to medical robots, and of course, his good arm.

"The FDA has been cautious about surgical robots, and even then, the increasing reliance on robotic surgery has led some to express concerns, and such concerns have led the FDA to become more and more cautious about the certification of new surgical robots."

Rod explained his views on the FDA's cautious assessment, and Karen agreed. Representative Foley agrees that "cautious" is what the FDA wants everyone to see, and if the FDA's image is no longer cautious and safe, the entire United States will soon fall into crisis, and the U.S. healthcare system will collapse.

"The caution of the FDA only means that those products will be launched later, but it does not mean that the FDA will not agree with them to be put into use, and the market size of 20 billion US dollars by 2020 is still the smallest estimate, and the procurement of many Asian countries such as South Korea is still in the early stage, and the original robot is bulky and the arm replacement is expensive, which is a stumbling block in front of the cost of surgical robots."

Representative Foley is lethargic, and Rhodes is so expressive that he thinks of every meeting as a mini-public talk or product launch.

"Tell me your conclusions."

Karen also seemed a little impatient.

"Okay, to put it simply, the cost will definitely be reduced, and the dominant robot will definitely be replaced by other more economical robots, specialized robots, such as brain invasive minimally invasive surgery robots and the latest spine surgery robots, the use of such expert surgical robots will reduce the use rate of the original integrated robots."

"The cost of such a dedicated robot is relatively low."

Karen added.

"It's true that not only the United States, but also South Korea and China already have a lot of experience in developing these kinds of expert robots to solve things that can't be done by humans."

"The question now is ......"

Representative Foley came to understand that Rhodes wasn't trying to show off his expertise, and that what he was trying to say was far from being expressed.

Uman was looking at Rod with admiration, with a look of adoration as if Karen couldn't compare to him.

Representative Foley has to admit that Rhodes is indeed a rare talent, and although high-degree education abounds in high-tech companies in Los Angeles, many people do not have the habit of exploring and learning like practicing muscles.

Especially in this day and age, it is so easy to obtain information that it does not take much time at all, and it is dozens of times easier to even search the literature and investigate the latest research progress than before. In this new machine age, a person's wisdom and knowledge have become the most direct embodiment of distinguishing from others or even from machine intelligence.

Most of the people in this competition directly become spectators, enjoyers, while Rhodes belongs to another type of people, a class of people who are difficult to replace, difficult to surpass, he is a participant and a creator.

If Foley had the idea that "it's better to let someone else run slower" before he got sick, he doesn't have that anymore. Now either do nothing and wait to be a paralyzed person with peace of mind, or do something to make this precious "normal life" have some useful value.

He knew very well that once he gave up, he really became a patient.

"Intelligent surgical robots are already a road that can only move forward and cannot go backwards. No patient would want more bleeding, a slower recovery process, greater trauma, longer transfers and waiting times after surgery.

Doctors can't go back to the past, they are used to the picture brought by the robot's eyes, used to the power feedback of the robotic arm, although this can not be really synchronized feedback on the existing products, but Yalun is very smart, and has long found that visual enhancement can bring touch enhancement, and the deceptive effect of the brain neural network cleverly solves this problem. ”

"But the same deception is like a hacker opening their arms." Karen said with a frown.

"If someone wants to invade a remote surgery, we don't have a particularly good way, of course we can find out, but even if the problem is solved, it is still difficult to judge how much impact it has on the operating patient, the doctor relies on the image transmission of robots, which means that he does not have his own eyes, everything can be a hallucination."

"Hallucinations."

Representative Foley accidentally repeats Rod's words, and when he sees that Rod is looking at him, he immediately nods in approval.

When Foley spoke, he took out the data device and explained his work, he was in charge of mechanical engineering, and "surgical safety" for Foley was more about the accuracy of the data, including the angle and number of rotations, the adjustment accuracy of the 540-degree rotating tentacles, and whether the rebound force was close to zero. These small changes can have predictable and terrible effects during the procedure, like a trembling human hand.