Specialist surgeons performed the procedures, guiding interventions from different hospitals in Florida and Dundee, Scotland. They performed full, end-to-end thrombectomies on perfused, non-living subjects with procedure-authentic pathology at the University of Dundee.

The company says the completed cases demonstrate its technology’s ability to save the lives and prognoses of patients suffering stroke episodes in remote settings. It could also improve critical care and outcomes for stroke patients using robotic accuracy and precision. The company also hopes to create a fully digital process with rich data to inform the next generation of specialists and endovascular robotics.

“For an ischaemic stroke, the difference between walking out of hospital and a lifetime of disability can be just two to three hours,” said Edvardas Satkauskas, co-founder and CEO of Sentante. “Today, patients are often transported long distances to reach one of a limited number of thrombectomy centres. With Sentante, the specialist comes to the patient over a secure network, and performs the entire procedure remotely—with the same tactile feel and control they have at the bedside.”