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Capstan Medical designed its mitral heart valve implant with a self-expanding nitinol frame. | Source: Capstan Medical Heart disease continues to be a leading cause of death in the U.S., killing nearly 700,000 Americans each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Santa Cruz, Calif.-based Capstan Medical said it has been working to merge surgical robotics with catheter-based technology using materials such as nitinol, as well as next-generation implants. Maggie Nixon, CEO of Capstan

Dr. Jeffrey Cadeddu at UT Southwestern Medical Center using the Levita Magnetics MARS system with the Intuitive da Vinci SP for a prostatectomy. | Source: Levita Magnetics Levita Magnetics Inc. this week claimed that a surgeon has performed the world’s first procedure using two different surgical robots. The surgical robotics developer said the operation shows how platforms from different manufacturers might deliver better patient outcomes when used together. Dr. Jeffrey Cadeddu at the University of

Capstan is developing a robotic platform and catheter-delivered heart implants for mitral and tricuspid valve replacements. | Source: Capstan Medical Capstan Medical Inc. yesterday said it has raised $110 million in an oversubscribed Series C round. The Santa Cruz, Calif.-based company said the latest round brings its total funding to more than $150 million. “We had such strong internal support for giving us this runway for the next phase of the business that we only

Listen to this article Intuitive plans updates to the da Vinci 5 — including capabilities for surgeons using the console (pictured) — before fully launching the next generation of the surgical robot. | Source: Intuitive Surgical Intuitive Surgical Inc. said it can’t make enough of its new da Vinci 5 robotic surgical system to meet customer demand. But that’s part of the Synnyvale, Calif.-based company‘s plan for “measured rollout” so it can tweak the next-generation

Listen to this article Utilizing massive volumes of data is “the next wave of work” for surgical robotics developers, industry vet Mark Toland said in an interview with Medical Design & Outsourcing, a sister publication of The Robot Report. “We’ve all done a good job of building the hands and connecting them to the eyes,” Toland said. “But how do we use the data to start doing more intraoperative assistance algorithms?” Toland is the CEO

Listen to this article A version of Endiatx’s PillBot as of June 2024. | Source: Endiatx Endiatx LLC is planning a pivotal trial for its swallowable, steerable Pillbot robot camera at Mayo Clinic campuses this year. The Hayward, Calif.–based startup told MassDevice this week that it has already started its first in-human trials in New Zealand. Endiatx said that it plans to publish data from those trials and that they are “progressing well, and physicians

Listen to this article MMI’s Symani system for robotic-assisted microsurgeries has tiny instruments operated by a surgeon using OperaAir controllers. | Source: MMI MMI today announced the Symani surgical robotics platform’s first clinical cases in the U.S. The two robotic-assisted microsurgical procedures were performed at Penn Presbyterian Medical Center’s Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. Pisa, Italy-based MMI (incorporated as Medical Microinstruments) won FDA de novo classification for the Symani Surgical System in April. The company‘s system secured a

Listen to this article Intuitive placed eight of its next-generation da Vinci 5 systems in the first quarter of 2024. | Source: Intuitive Surgical Intuitive Surgical Inc. yesterday posted first-quarter results that exceeded Wall Street’s consensus forecast while increasing its forecast for full-year procedure growth. The Sunnyvale, Calif.-based surgical robotics leader reported profits of $545 million, or $1.51 per diluted share, for the three months ended March 31, 2024, up 53% from the first quarter

Listen to this article The veil is starting to lift on medical robotics startup Mendaera Inc. as it exits stealth mode and heads toward regulatory submission with a design freeze on its first system and verification and validation imminent. Two former Auris Health leaders co-founded the San Mateo, Calif.-based company. Mendaera also has financial support from Dr. Fred Moll, the Auris and Intuitive Surgical co-founder who is known as “the father of robotic surgery.” “Among

Listen to this article Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci 5 is the device developer’s fifth-generation surgical robotics system. | Source: Intuitive Surgical Intuitive Surgical’s da Vinci 5 has more than 150 design enhancements and innovations since the surgical robotics developer’s fourth-generation systems, including one feature that an Intuitive leader described as “groundbreaking.” “Da Vinci 5 looks similar to [multiport predecessor da Vinci] Xi,” Intuitive President Dave Rosa said in a discussion of the upgrades and enhancements.