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 […]
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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 […]