Robotic surgical giant Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) opened the doors this week on a new $8.9 million surgical innovation training center on South Korea, according to a Korea Herald report. The new 39,008-square-foot center is located inside the Sangam DMC High-Tech Industry Center in Seoul and features five training stations with a total of seven da Vinci systems, […]
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Here are top surgical robotic features from MassDevice and its sister publications (and scroll down to read the latest cardiology device news from MassDevice):
+ Intuitive details da Vinci 5 launch plans with limited supply of next-gen surgical robotics systems
+ 10 surgical robotics companies you need to know
+ The secret behind Intuitive’s surgical robotics success
+ Surgical robotics trends and how to accelerate adoption
+ How surgical robotics safety systems prevent patient harm
+ These surgical robotics arms are destined for the trash — by design
Latest Surgical Robotics News
Mazor Robotics crushes expectations with Q3 results
Mazor Robotics (NSDQ:MZOR) today reported third-quarter results that blew past the consensus forecast on Wall Street, more than doubling sales and paring its losses by more than 30%. The Caesarea, Israel-based robot-assisted surgery company posted losses of -$3.7 million, or -7¢ per share, on sales of $17.2 million for the three months ended Sept. 30, cutting […]
Intuitive Surgical touts safety, effectiveness in 1st trial of flexible robotics platform
Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) today presented results from the first clinical trial of its new flexible robotics platform, touting that the system was found to be safe and effective at sampling lung tissue. Findings were presented at the American College of Chest Physicians CHEST annual meeting this week and published in the CHEST Journal. Read the whole […]
OmniLife Science launches OmniBotics knee replacement active spacer
Robotic knee surgery platform developer OmniLife Science said today it began testing on its OmniBotics active spacer robotic tissue balancing device at 3 US sites after having won FDA 510(k) clearance in September. The Raynham, Mass.-based company said its OmniBotics active spacer is designed to allow surgeons performing total knee surgeries to quantitatively manage the […]
Titan Medical adds to $3m private placement, plus $7m from warrants exercise
Titan Medical (TSX:TMD) said today it added an approximate $300,000 to a private placement round that closed earlier this month alongside raising $6.5 million (CDN $8.4 million) from exercising share purchase warrants. The Toronto-based robotic surgical platform developer said that it raised a total of $2.6 million (CDN $3.3 million) through the placement of 13.4 million […]
Procept BioRobotics launches AquaBeam trial in France
Procept BioRobotics said today that it launched a clinical trial aimed at winning reimbursement approval in France for its AquaBeam prostate treatment. Redwood Shores, Calif.-based Procept said the 30-patient Francais Water study is designed to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of prostate ablation via waterjet in treating benign prostate hyperplasia in men aged 45 to 80. […]
Riverfield Surgical Robot Laboratory raises $10m to challenge Intuitive Surgical in Japan
Robot-assisted surgery startup Riverfield Surgical Robot Laboratory reportedly raised more than $10 million (¥1.15 billion) for the Emaro robot-assisted surgery platform it’s developing. Based on technology developed at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Riverfield plans to have its device on the Japanese market by 2020, selling at half the price of the da Vinci robot […]
Medical robots to drive commercial robotics market to $4B in 5 years
The commercial robot market is poised to nearly triple in value during the next five years, with medical robots accounting for more than 40% of the product segment, according to a report. Commercial robotics, which doesn’t include industrial robots, refers to medical robots, drones, autonomous guided robots and field robots. This year, the market for such […]
Mazor Robotics touts study showing lower complication, revision rates
Robotic-guided spinal surgeries reduce both complications and the number of revision surgeries needed, according to a new report released today by Mazor Robotics (NSDQ:MZOR). The study shows that spinal surgeries performed using the company’s guidance system had a five-fold reduction in surgical complications. Such technology also contributed to a seven-fold reduction in revision surgeries versus freehand-based […]
Corindus Vascular Robotics to test-drive HeartFlow’s 3D cardiac imaging tech
Corindus Vascular Robotics (OTC:CVRS), a Massachusetts-based surgical robotics company, plans to utilize technology that creates 3D images of arteries for evaluating patients. Company officials said they’d employ California-based HeartFlow’s FFRct Analysis in a case series of robotic-assisted percutaneous coronary interventions to evaluate the technology’s role in clinical decision support. The testing will be done at hospitals […]
Medineering touts EU approval of its robotic positioning arm
Medineering, the German maker of surgical robotics, disclosed that its positioning arm won CE Mark approval from the European Commission. Approval means the company’s positioning arm is now OK’d for holding and positioning passive adapters and robots in otolaryngology (ear, nose & throat), neurosurgery and spinal surgery. The positioning arm “is the base of a […]