The Sentante robot is a haptic endovascular robotic platform using standard cath lab equipment, such as guidewires and catheters. These devices connect to a system equipped with a high-resolution sensory platform capturing the specialist’s hand movements. Unlike joystick-controlled surgical robots, it delivers authentic force feedback to the surgeon’s fingertips, the company says. This recreates the tactile experience of manual surgery.
Sentante’s tele-operated system enables life-saving interventions from seated positions at high-resolution screens displaying X-ray imagery. This frees surgeons from radiation exposure and the physical strain of standing for prolonged periods. The robotic system received CE mark approval earlier this year.
Kaunas, Lithuania-based Sentante said it built the system to capture force and torque, device kinematics and time-aligned fluoroscopy together with both its hardware and AI enabling each procedure to refine the dataset that makes increasing machine assistance possible.
The Sentante system integrates with Nvidia hardware, utilizing the AI computing giant’s Isaac for Healthcare platform. Nvidia this week unveiled a new simulation framework for surgical robotics, continuing its work in the space. The company also works with a number of surgical robotics developers, including CMR Surgical, Xcath, Johnson & Johnson MedTech, Moon Surgical, Virtual Incision, Neptune Surgical and Stereotaxis.
Commentary from company leadership
Edvardas Satkauskas, CEO and co-founder of Sentante, said:
“The next wave of technology is physical AI: systems that can sense, act and operate in the real world, not just process information. For endovascular intervention, the constraint has never been ambition, it has been data. You cannot train a system to navigate a living vessel without a rich, accurate record of how the best clinicians do it. We have spent years building the platform that captures exactly that, and CE mark means it is now generating that data in real clinical settings across Europe.”
Dr. Tomas Baltrūnas, co-founder and chief medical officer of Sentante, said:
“The image tells you where the device is. The hand tells you what the vessel is doing. A system that captures only the image is missing the half that matters most for safety.
“What I learned to do with my hands over fifteen years of intervention is replicable with the Sentante platform. The motion-mimicking interface lets me operate as I always have, with the platform recording what I do as I do it. The expertise stays in the operator’s hands, and the data stays in the system.”
