Researchers and companies worldwide are creating innovative, robotically assisted surgical devices that they hope will allow physicians to operate with greater precision and accuracy in the tiniest spaces within the human body, thus improving patient outcomes. The stakes are high with a growing number of competitors vying for their share of the global market opportunity, which is expected to reach more than $10bn by 2021. In this article, we'll take a closer look at the first ever robotically assisted eye surgeries, as well as two early stage robotic systems, developed at UC San Diego and MIT, that could pave a new era for treating atrial fibrillation and stomach issues.
Surgeons at the University Hospitals Leuven (KU Leuven) in Belgium celebrated in January a medical breakthrough by successfully removing blockage from a blood clot causing retinal vein occlusion (RVO) with...