Researchers, including Ken Goldberg’s team at UC Berkley, are hard at work developing robotic systems that assist surgeons by automating routine, often tedious subtasks common to all surgical procedures.
Strategies For Building a Successful Surgical Robotics Startup – RoboBusiness Direct On-Demand
In this informative RoboBusiness Direct session based on accrued experience with five surgical robotics startups, Dwight Meglan, Co-founder and CTO of HeartLander Surgical, will describe the challenges to building a successful surgical robotics company, along with the critical success factors and strategies for overcoming them.
September 2020 Robotics Transactions Include Healthcare Growth, Autonomous Vehicle Slowdown
The total number of robotics transactions held steady year over year, but the autonomous vehicle and manufacturing automation providers received less investment. Healthcare systems, field robots, and drones got funding in September 2020.
July 2020 Robotics Transactions Remain Steady Year Over Year
Robotics fundings, mergers, and acquisitions in July 2020 stayed at comparable levels with transactions from a year ago and June.
Medtronic acquires Digital Surgery to add AI, data analytics to robotic surgery
Digital Surgery to Add AI and Data to Medtronic Surgical Robotics
Medtronic and Digital Surgical expect to co-develop systems providing AI and data analytics for laparoscopic and robot-assisted surgery.
How Phoenix Children’s Hospital uses robotic guidance for neurosurgery
The addition of a robotic assistant for cranial procedures helps surgeons improve accuracy, reduce recovery time for pediatric patients.
How Robots and AI are Creating the 21st-Century Surgeon
Surgical robotics moves beyond hardware to give a surgeon better skills and improve patient outcomes.
Medtronic Treats First U.S. Patients with Spinal Surgery Robot
Mazor X Stealth Edition provides robotic-assistant spine surgery in Kentucky, Virginia
Creator Offers Better Burger Experience With Robot Cooks
As robots move into food preparation, Creator is focusing on quality rather than mass production, explains Martin Buehler.
5 Surgical Robots to Look Out for in 2019
Surgical robots are evolving, with newer systems incorporating tele-operation, virtual reality training, and more procedures. Here are five to watch.
Robot Investments Weekly: Robotics Firms Receive Early Holiday Gifts
Logistics robotics, surgical robots and autonomous vehicle developers all score big in a post-Thanksgiving funding spree.
Medtronic to Acquire Nutrino Health for Nutrition Data Technologies
Robot Investments Weekly: Mergers Mark Medical Robot Market; Mixed News in Drone Space
Consolidation continues in the surgical robot space, and aerial drone makers have one of those good news, bad news moments.
Medtronic to Acquire Mazor Robotics for Spinal Surgical Robot System
Robot Investments Weekly: Security Sector, AI Score Big
Surgical robots, the security sector, and self-driving companies all got funding during National Robotics Week.