Levita Magnetics said today it has raised $26 million to fund regulatory and commercial progress on its Magnetic-Assisted Robotic Surgery (MARS) platform. The Menlo Park, California-based robotic surgery system developer also appointed Maria Sainz as chair of its board of directors. The MARS platform is designed to help surgeons perform more high-volume abdominal procedures using […]
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Robotic surgery: We’ve got design advice for you
There are a handful of companies in the robotic surgical space. But that is about to change. There is ample evidence that the robotic surgical device market is going to explode in the next 3 to 5 years. We recently spoke with Todd Pope, CEO of TransEnterix who said there is a lot of opportunity […]
Surgical robots: Hospital CTO talks differentiators in new crop of competitors
For the last 10 years, if anyone mentioned robotic surgery or surgical robots, 95 percent of the time they meant the da Vinci robot from Intuitive Surgical. “That product has been so dominantly successful that almost everybody who talks about it is talking with that as their reference point,” said Roger Smith, chief technology officer […]
