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On Friday, KARL STORZ Endoscopy-America, Inc. agreed to acquire Asensus Surgical Inc. (NYSE:ASXC) for $0.35 per share in cash. KARL STORZ is a wholly-owned direct subsidiary of KARL STORZ SE & Co ...
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Zimmer designs, develops, manufactures and markets orthopedics products, including knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, foot and ankle artificial joints and dental prostheses. In 2024, Zimmer introduced the ROSA Shoulder, said to be the world's first robotic surgery system for shoulder replacement, and the fourth application for the company's ROSA Robotics portfolio, which includes the ROSA Knee System ...
In the long term, robotic surgeries are likely to actually lower costs by freeing up doctors' time. Despite the growing capacity of these machines, however, they all still require human ...
MAKO Surgical was founded in 2004 by Rony Abovitz and other key members of its predecessor Z-KAT, Inc. [9] Z-KAT was founded in 1997 by Rony Abovitz, William Tapia, Michael Peshkin Ph.D., Julio Santos-Munne, and Wayne J. Kerness, M.D. and was developing a novel haptic robotic system for medical applications, amongst a wide variety of computer-assisted surgery technologies.
In August 2007 Globus Medical settled a lawsuit initially filed by Synthes in 2004 over alleged stolen trade secrets. [13] Former Synthes employees, who then worked for Globus, were accused of stealing 2300 electronic files containing blueprints for Synthes' products, safety-testing plans, and verbatim 510(k) filing documents. [14]
Robot-assisted surgery or robotic surgery are any types of surgical procedures that are performed using robotic systems. Robotically assisted surgery was developed to try to overcome the limitations of pre-existing minimally-invasive surgical procedures and to enhance the capabilities of surgeons performing open surgery.
The surgical robot, Ottava, incorporates four robotic arms into a standard size surgical table and has the ability to reposition a patient without interrupting the surgical procedure, the company ...