Medtronic

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.

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.

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.

Robotics fundings, mergers, and acquisitions in July 2020 stayed at comparable levels with transactions from a year ago and June.

Medtronic and Digital Surgical expect to co-develop systems providing AI and data analytics for laparoscopic and robot-assisted surgery.

The addition of a robotic assistant for cranial procedures helps surgeons improve accuracy, reduce recovery time for pediatric patients.

Surgical robotics moves beyond hardware to give a surgeon better skills and improve patient outcomes.

Mazor X Stealth Edition provides robotic-assistant spine surgery in Kentucky, Virginia

As robots move into food preparation, Creator is focusing on quality rather than mass production, explains Martin Buehler.

Surgical robots are evolving, with newer systems incorporating tele-operation, virtual reality training, and more procedures. Here are five to watch.

Logistics robotics, surgical robots and autonomous vehicle developers all score big in a post-Thanksgiving funding spree.

Consolidation continues in the surgical robot space, and aerial drone makers have one of those good news, bad news moments.

Surgical robots, the security sector, and self-driving companies all got funding during National Robotics Week.