Virtual Incision announced that it submitted its MIRA surgical robot to the FDA for de novo review. Lincoln, Nebraska-based Virtual Incision seeks authorization to market MIRA for use in bowel resection procedures. The submission follows a completed FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) study. FDA approved the IDE supplement for MIRA in April 2022. MIRA could […]
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16 surgical robotics companies you need to know
Intuitive remains the dominant surgical robotics company, but corporations ranging from Medtronic to Vicarious Surgical look to compete. Robotic-assisted surgery remains one of the hottest spaces in medtech. Intuitive, which pioneered the field in the 1990s and early 2000s, continues to innovate. At the same time, a host of other companies are looking to compete. […]
NASA grant will see Virtual Incision’s surgical robot go to space
Virtual Incision announced today that its MIRA platform will be used in a technology demonstration aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Lincoln, Nebraska-based Virtual Incision received a grant from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to use the miniaturized robotic-associated surgery (RAS) platform on the 2024 technology demonstration mission. MIRA includes a small, self-contained […]
FDA approves IDE supplement for Virtual Incision’s miniaturized surgical robotics platform
Virtual Incision announced today that it received an FDA investigational device exemption (IDE) supplement for its MIRA platform. Lincoln, Nebraska-based Virtual Incision’s IDE supplement allows the company to complete the final stage of its clinical study for the MIRA (miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant) platform in bowel resection procedures. The company said in a news […]
Virtual Incision raises $46M for its miniaturized robotic platform
Virtual Incision announced today that it raised $46 million in a Series C round to support its miniaturized robots for laparoscopic surgery. The company — based in Lincoln, Nebraska and Pleasanton, California — said the money will fund regulatory and clinical programs supporting the eventual commercialization of its MIRA (miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant) surgical […]
Virtual Incision receives FDA IDE for miniaturized robot-assisted surgery platform
Virtual Incision announced today that it received investigational device exemption (IDE) from the FDA for its MIRA platform. MIRA, which stands for miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant, is touted by Virtual Incision as a first-of-its-kind miniaturized surgical platform, according to a news release. Receiving IDE allows Virtual Incision to initiate a clinical study of MIRA […]
Virtual Incision raises $20m for MIRA surgical robot
Virtual Incision announced today that it raised $20 million in a Series B financing round for its MIRA (miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant) surgical robotic platform. The company also filed for an FDA investigational device exemption for the MIRA platform so it can initiate a clinical study in support of its regulatory pathway to approval. […]
Minimally invasive surgical robot dev Virtual Incision raises $18m in Series B
Virtual Incision said today it raised $18 million in a Series B funding round to support FDA 510(k) submission for its next-gen minimally-invasive robotically assisted surgical device. The round was co-led by newly invested Sinopharm Capital and existing investor BlueStem Capital and was joined by PrairieGold Venture Partners and other investors, the company said. Read […]
Analyst: Medtronic most likely to challenge Intuitive Surgical in robot-assisted surgery
Medtronic (NYSE:MDT) is the most likely rival to Intuitive Surgical‘s (NSDQ:ISRG) dominance in the robot-assisted surgery space, but is still at least a year away from putting a competing device on the market, according to 1 analyst covering the medical device industry. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Intuitive has a long lead, having had its flagship da Vinci system since 2000 and is […]
Virtual Incision’s inside-the-body surgical robot logs 1st-in-human use
Virtual Incision this week announced the 1st-in-human use of its miniaturized robotically assisted surgical device, which was used in a colon resection procedures in Paraguay. The RASD is designed to operate entirely within the abdominal cavity via a single surgical incision. A spinout from the University of Nebraska, Virtual Incision raised $11.2 million last summer to fund […]
Robot-assisted surgery: Virtual Incision looks to grow by shrinking
Robot-assisted surgery is a hot space, dominated by large machines that resemble their automated, automotive-assembly-line ancestors: Large craning arms, industrial hydraulics with an array of tools, all hunched over an operating table. But a newly spun-out medical device company from the University of Nebraska, Virtual Incision, is looking to change that. The company, based out of […]
