Microbot Medical CEO Harel Gadot said a recent regulatory filing marks an important milestone in his company' efforts to bring the world’s first fully disposable endovascular robot to market.

At the LSX World Congress in London, leaders from Medtronic, Johnson & Johnson and Olympus discussed the evolving medtech mergers and acquisitions landscape, the big opportunity in robotic surgery and the impacts on innovation of the forthcoming EU Medical Device Regulation.

Stryker’s revenues grew 8.1% in 2019, its seventh consecutive year of accelerating organic growth and 40th year of sales growth. All three of the company’s major divisions grew in the high single-digits, led by sales of neurotechnology and spine products.