Artisight’s smart hospital platform powers the AI tool designed to detect and respond to status changes in the operating room (OR). It may help reduce turnover times and eliminate many manual tasks, potentially enhancing OR efficiency and increasing data accuracy.

It marks Karl Storz’s latest OR play, following its August acquisition of Asensus Surgical. Asensus designed its Intelligent Surgical Unit (ISU) as a real-time intraoperative surgical image analytics platform for the Senhance robot. It leverages augmented intelligence to help reduce surgical variability. Asensus has unveiled its next-generation Luna robot under development.

Artisight’s technology uses ambient sensors, micr