A Glasgow-based company has played a leading role in bringing the “world’s first” aortic valve replacement through a tiny incision in the neck closer to reality.
The soft tissue robotics leader incorporated new features into the system, from tissue sensing feedback to a smaller size and more comfortable console.
Virtual Incision announced that the FDA granted marketing authorization to its MIRA miniaturized surgical robotic system.
The clearance poises the orthopedics company to be first to market with robotic-assisted shoulder replacement surgery.
A team of roboticists at Multi-Scale Robotics Lab, ETH Zurich, working with several hospitals in Switzerland, has developed a magnetically operated robot that could potentially be used to treat people after a stroke. Their paper is published in the journal Science Robotics.
Intuitive Surgical (Nasdaq: ISRG)+
announced today that it received CE mark approval for its da Vinci SP surgical robot platform.
The innovative medical robotic startup achieved the globally recognized ISO 13485 certification in December 2023
Because it was not possible to remove a hard-to-reach bulge in the central lymphatic system, a team of doctors from the Department of Plastic Surgery and Hand Surgery at the University Hospital Zurich (USZ) created a new drain to relieve the patient’s agonizing lymph congestion. For the first time, a microsurgical operating system was used for such a procedure.
The realistic model could aid the development of better heart implants and shed light on understudied heart disorders.
Bioliberty, a medtech start-up which has created a soft robotic glove to help rehabilitate stroke patients, has received almost half a million pounds of new funding to accelerate its product to market.