It seems as if every orthopedic device company is getting involved in robot-assisted surgery — rolling out robots to assist surgeons operating on the knee, hip, shoulder or spine. Two events in recent years especially signaled that robots were coming into their own in the space: Stryker spent $1.7 billion for Mako Surgical in order […]
Robot-assisted surgery matters for contract manufacturers
Robot-assisted surgery is a game changer, not only for orthopedic device companies but the contract manufacturers serving them. For major supplier Tecomet, it means forging relationships earlier, sometimes tighter instrument tolerances — and much more. It makes sense that Tecomet officials would see the rise of robot-assisted surgery in the ortho space as a big […]
Intuitive Surgical wins FDA clearance for robotic-assisted lung biopsy system
Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) said today that FDA has cleared its Ion system — a robotic-assisted, catheter-based platform meant to enable minimally invasive biopsy deep within the lung. Sunnyvale, Calif.–based Intuitive plans to start selling the Ion system in the U.S. in a measured fashion; it’ll start shipping to customers in coming months. The Ion system includes an […]
Here’s how Intuitive Surgical is innovating to stay competitive
Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) isn’t resting on its laurels when it comes to the surgical robotics field that it dominates. The Sunnyvale, Calif.–based company is seeking to stay competitive through technologies including computer-controlled navigated robotic catheters, contrast agents to improve imaging during procedures, and intelligent surgical interfaces. That was a big message that hundreds of attendees heard during […]
Titan Medical CEO wants to up the game in robotic surgery: Here’s how
Titan Medical – the young, upstart Canadian robotic surgery company – is making a comeback this year. Just today, the company announced the completion of initial formative human factors studies for its Sport single port robotic surgical system. The Sport system boasts the ability for a variety of surgical instruments on snake-like arms to be deployed […]
Robotic surgery: Here’s everything you need to know
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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 […]
How surgical robots are creating super surgeons
Faster than a scalpel-wielding hand, able to snake to hard-to-reach surgical sites in a single bound—future surgeons will be super surgeons, all thanks to robotics. Alistair Fleming, VP Medical at Sagentia In many industries, the advance of robotics has created worries about robots supplanting humans. But in the world of surgery, the next generation of […]
Intuitive Surgical expects slowdown in da Vinci sales growth
Intuitive Surgical beat Wall Street expectations with its fourth quarter results, but company officials expect a slowdown in sales growth this year for da Vinci surgical robots. Intuitive Surgical earned $204 million, or $5.13 per share, off $386 million in sales during the three months ended Dec. 31, 2016, the company reported Tuesday evening. The fourth […]
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