Surgery Robotics Articles
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Importance of Investing in Healthcare and MedTech R&D
Jian Zhang: Technology has always been a vital ally for healthcare. From diagnostic capabilities finding disease earlier to therapies that increase the quality of care, improve clinical efficiency, and lower cost. But healthcare has been slow to adopt technology because innovation can be long, incremental, and path-dependent. This is especially true when examining investment in research and ...
By Noah Medical
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Robotic Surgery: Who will be the Next Top Dog?
The competitive stakes in robotic surgery have never been higher as medical device companies try to disrupt the market that Intuitive Surgical pioneered more than two decades ago. Robotic surgery pioneer Intuitive Surgical celebrated a big milestone this week: The number of robotic-assisted procedures performed worldwide using the da Vinci surgical system has just surpassed 10 million. ...
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Using Consumer Technology to Pilot Miniature Surgical Robots
Using Consumer Technology to Pilot Miniature Surgical Robots Read Entire Article on MIT Horizon ...
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Robotics startup Vicarious files pre-submission with FDA, fresh from $220M SPAC raise
Vicarious Surgical has filed a pre-submission with the FDA, marking the start of a regulatory process it hopes will lead to a 510(k) application by late 2023. Dive Brief: Vicarious Surgical has filed a pre-submission with the FDA, marking the start of a regulatory process it hopes will lead to a 510(k) application by late 2023. The filing, which Vicarious disclosed in its first quarterly ...
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Vicarious Surgical details its regulatory plans with FDA
Vicarious Surgical (NYSE:RBOT) announced in its quarterly earnings report that it set its FDA regulatory process in motion with a pre-submission. CEO Adam Sachs said in a news release that the robotic surgery technology developer, which just completed its first quarter as a publicly-traded company, filed a “detailed regulatory plan” in the form of a pre-submission to the FDA as it ...
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Fantastic Voyage for Surgery
This week I am talking to Adam Sachs (@AdamSachsVS), CEO and Co-Founder of Vicarious Surgical (@vicarioussurg) a company that is rethinking surgery. Adam is a mechanical engineer by training who studied at MIT focusing on biomedical engineering and robotics. This is where he met his co-founders Sammy Khalifa, Dr. Barry Green. They came together to solve some fundamental challenges with ...
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Robotic surgery’s impact on training the next generation of surgeons [PODCAST]
Technology continues to evolve every day. In the near-term future, portable and easily deployable robots will allow surgeons all over the world to perform minimally invasive surgery in an increasing number of procedure types and become even more effective surgeons. To achieve our goal of having a future surgeon workforce that meets the demands of an aging population and delivers good patient ...
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Value-Based Robotics, Pt.4: Micromate™ - Bringing Usability To The Operating Room
Our Value-Based Robotics series advances towards the actual clinical use of robotics and issues concerning practicality and surgeon onboarding and training. It is generally accepted that robotic surgical systems enable minimally invasive surgery and improve outcomes, including shorter recovery times, less scarring, and reduced healthcare costs. This being said, the jury is still out on whether ...
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The Zap-X Radiosurgical System in the Treatmentof Intracranial Tumors
BACKGROUND AND IMPORTANCE:The Zap-X system (Zap Surgical Systems Inc, SanCarlos, California) is a radically new surgical robot designed for brain and head and neckradiosurgery. It represents the first new dedicated brain stereotactic radiosurgery platformin almost half a century optimizing the goals of safety, speed, and accuracy. The Zap-Xsystem was used in a required Chinese National Medical ...
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A robot at the operating table - Case Study
The robot arms move above the patient’s stomach as if guided by an invisible hand. Monitors on each side of the operating table show an oversized, 3-D image of the stomach’s interior. Two meters (about six feet) away, Dr. Markus Mille sits fully absorbed at the control ...
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Impact of Healthcare Industry in India
The Healthcare industry is one of India’s rapidly growing and largest sectors contributing approximately 60% of the industry’s total revenue. A wide range of employability and startup innovations associated with the revenue developed to drive the industry. It comprises of hospitals, medical devices, telemedicine, clinical trials, medical equipment, integration of health insurance and ...
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Enabling single-site laparoscopy: the SPORT platform
Abstract Background The Single Port Orifice Robotic Technology (SPORT) Surgical System by Titan Medical Inc. is designed to overcome the inherent challenges of minimally invasive single-access procedures. The aim of this preclinical study was to evaluate the feasibility of various digestive surgery procedures using this novel surgical robotic platform. Methods A total of 12 minimally invasive ...
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Arsenia Georgopoulos: A Rising Entrepreneur
Arsenia Georgopoulos first began her journey at EpiFinder this May as a summer business intern. Traveling all the way from Youngstown, Ohio, Arsenia is our first out-of-state team member and intern. Now that her summer break is coming to a close, she plans to head back to Ohio. There, she’ll begin her junior year at The College of Wooster, majoring in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. I ...
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Montreal-developed probe could be breakthrough in finding cancer (Montreal CTV News)
A fibre-optic probe can detect errant cancer cells within healthy tissue during brain tumour surgery with close to 100 per cent accuracy and sensitivity, reducing the risk of recurrence and thereby increasing a patient’s survival time, say the Canadian researchers who developed the device. The hand-held, pen-like instrument, known as a Raman spectroscopy probe, is able to differentiate ...
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The impact of robotics on neurosurgery
Stuart Campbell, Clinical Sales Development Manager of the Neurological Products Division at Renishaw, discusses key trends on the use of robotics in neurosurgery. The curious case of Phineas Gage is one of the earliest and best known cases of serious brain injury. On September 13th, 1848, Gage was working as a railway foreman in Vermont when an explosion caused a three foot long iron rod to be ...
By Renishaw plc
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