Bionicm Inc. completed a funding round on Feb. 13 to speed up development of its powered prosthetic leg products. The round, valued at “tens of millions of yuan,” was led by Nventure Capital, a wholly owned subsidiary of Nec Capital Solutions Ltd.
A French surgical team has performed a robot-assisted kidney auto-transplantation with ex situ tumorectomies for renal cell cancer. This is the world first use of the fourth generation Da Vinci Xi surgical robot from Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Intuitive Surgical Inc. to perform kidney explanation and autotransplantation with removal of multiple and complex tumors outside of a patient's body.
China has adjusted the tariff lines and rates for 37 medical devices, including surgical robots, in its newly released Import and export tax rules of the PRC (2023).
Easy access to financing, talent, and connection to sizable potential markets are Hong Kong’s advantages to develop the health care robotics industry, according to speakers at the Asia Summit on Global Health.
Easy access to financing, talent, and connection to sizable potential markets are Hong Kong’s advantages to develop the health care robotics industry, according to speakers at the Asia Summit on Global Health.
Koutech Medical Robotics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. reported it has raised “hundreds of millions of yuan” in a series A round to support the development of its surgical robot. The round is led by Qiming Venture Partners.
With FDA 510(k) clearance of its Kinguide robotic-assisted surgical system, Point Robotics Medtech Inc became the first robotics company in Taiwan to gain U.S. clearance for an orthopedic surgical robot.
Investors are backing Levita Magnetics International Corp. with $26 million to advance its new Magnetic-Assisted Robotic Surgery (MARS) platform. The series C financing round was led by Ballast Capital, with participation from Medtex Ventures, Invermaster and Carao Ventures. The new platform builds on the company’s first commercial device, the Levita Magnetic Surgical system which received U.S. FDA approval in 2015. The system enables reduced-port laparoscopic surgical procedures and consists of an external magnet that is placed on the skin and controls a magnetic grasper inside the abdomen during surgery.
Wandercraft SAS unveiled Atalante X, its next-generation autonomous exoskeleton based on the concept of dynamic robotics. This self-balancing, walking exoskeleton, hands-free and without crutches, helps patients at all stages of physical therapy for learning to walk again by replicating a natural walking pattern. “We are responding to a major demand for physical therapy for learning to walk again while relieving the work of clinical staff,” Matthieu Masselin, CEO and co-founder of Wandercraft, told BioWorld.
