Press Release
Robots to perform spinal surgery with pinpoint accuracy
Robots will perform spinal surgery with greater accuracy than humanly possible as part of a ground-breaking research project led by Nottingham Trent University. […]
spinal surgery
Press Release
HoloSurgical Inc, a Digital Surgery Company, Announces First Surgical Procedure Utilizing the ARAI™, an Augmented Reality and Artificial Intelligence Based Surgical Navigation System
HoloSurgical Inc, a digital surgery company, announced a successful first in human surgical procedure utilizing the ARAI™, an augmented reality and artificial intelligence based surgical navigation system. […]
Business
A Spine-Surgery Robot Turned This Entrepreneur Into A Billionaire. But How Well Does His Robot Work?
(Forbes) – When David C. Paul traveled to Phoenix in 2013, he saw the future of spinal surgery: a robot prototype called the Excelsius GPS. Nicholas Theodore, one of the robot’s inventors, remembers Paul being immediately impressed. […]
Press Release
Medtronic to Acquire Mazor Robotics
Medtronic’s acquisition of Mazor strengthens Medtronic’s position as a global leader in enabling technologies for spine surgery, and drives Mazor Robotics’ vision to bring its core technology to the forefront of the global market. […]
Augmented Reality
3 Startups Using Augmented Reality in Surgery
(nanalyze) – Tech billionaire Peter Thiel famously said, “We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters.” The comment obviously refers to how technological promises often fall short of expectations. […]
3D Printing
Stryker Touts 3D-Printed Tritanium Cages for Spinal Fusion
(MD+DI) – Stryker’s 3D-printed Tritanium cages outperformed PEEK cages in terms of bone in-growth and fixation in a pre-clinical study using sheep. […]