PARIS – Mikajaki SA reported the commercial launch of Eyelib, a robotic ophthalmic diagnostics platform. One year after obtaining CE marking, the Swiss-based med-tech is rolling out a wide-scale launch of its automatic ophthalmology examination system onto the European market.

Movendo Technology srl and Maragal Medical PC have collaborated to provide free community screening for the risk of falls for Massachusetts Medicare patients using Movendo’s Hunova robotic technology. Hunova performs a progressive assessment on seated and standing patients to evaluate their flexibility, strength and balance. The system also provides personalized rehabilitative therapy recommendations.

A successful fundraising round by a Chinese surgical robot developer last week underscored the potentially fast growth of a sector that remains underdeveloped in China. Chinese surgical robot company Edge Medical Robotics Co. Ltd. raised $200 million in a series C round, and plans to use the funds for the commercialization of its core products.

The FDA has posted an advisory regarding robotically assisted surgery (RAS) for mastectomy, but the agency also pointedly noted that it is aware of studies underway for such indications without the appropriate oversight. The FDA did not name Intuitive Surgical Inc. in the notice, but the company nonetheless responded to the FDA statement by confirming the absence of any devices thus approved or cleared. The FDA had previously issued a Feb. 28, 2019, advisory stating that the safety and efficacy of RAS devices for mastectomy and the prevention or treatment of breast cancer had not been established.

Lightpoint Medical Ltd. is stepping up commercialization activities and collaborating with Telix Pharmaceuticals Ltd. on radio-guided cancer surgery. The companies plan to initiate prostate cancer clinical trials evaluating Lightpoint’s Sensei with Telix’s investigational prostate cancer single photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) imaging agent TLX599-CDx.

Rsip Vision Ltd. has maintained its momentum with a couple of new software module releases, one focused on sports medicine and another for robotic assisted surgery. The most recent release is a software module that enables deep learning-based segmentation of joint cartilage from MRI scans of hips, knees and ankles. “It's about using AI-based auto segmentation to provide clinically valuable measurements,” Moshe Safran, the CEO of Rsip Vision U.S., told BioWorld.

LONDON – CMR Surgical Ltd. has once again broken the record for a private financing round by a European med-tech company, raising $600 million in a series D funding round. That follows on from two other record-breaking rounds, in which the Cambridge, U.K.-based CMR raised $240 million in a series C in September 2019 and $100 million in the series B round that closed in May 2018. These earlier rounds enabled CMR to complete development and install the first commercial versions of its Versius surgical robots. Now the series D will push the company through to profitability, the company said.

The FDA has granted de novo authorization to Neurolutions Inc. for its Ipsihand upper extremity rehabilitation system. The first-of-its kind device leverages robotics and brain-computer interface (BCI) technology to facilitate muscle training in patients with upper limb weakness or immobility following a stroke.

Memic Innovative Surgery Ltd. secured a major cash infusion to bring its freshly FDA-authorized Hominis robotic-assisted surgical platform to market. Peregrine Ventures and Ceros led the $96 million series D financing round with participation from Ourcrowd and Accelmed.