Surgical & Robotics

Develops and sells robots for vascular interventional surgery, covering cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, peripheral vascular and tumor intervention. Building a next generation pan-vascular system.

Builds an MRI-compatible surgical robot that lets neurosurgeons place leads, take biopsies and ablate tumors while the patient is inside the scanner. It won a $2 million Phase II SBIR from the National Cancer Institute in September 2026.

Makes a stimulation device surgeons use to make the ureter and other smooth muscle structures move so they can be identified during surgery. Acquired by Northgate Technologies in April 2023.

Developing surgical robots that add AI guidance during procedures, starting with prostate surgery.

Makes LapBox, a bag-in-bag tissue containment system for laparoscopic morcellation. Both the manual and the power versions are FDA cleared.

Pairs catheter delivered heart valve implants with a robotic platform for minimally invasive structural heart procedures. Its devices are for clinical investigation only.

Builds the Versius soft tissue surgical robot, a modular system with wristed 5 mm instruments. The second-generation Versius Plus holds FDA clearance, and the platform has been used in more than 30,000 surgeries, mostly outside the US.

Builds Sentire, a dual console soft tissue surgical robot for minimally invasive general, gynecologic, thoracic and urologic procedures. The system is approved in the European Union, China and Singapore.

Distalmotion builds Dexter, a soft-tissue surgical robot with single-use wristed instruments designed to fit existing operating rooms and ambulatory surgery centers.

Builds the Op.n surgical platform, which combines 2D and 3D imaging, navigation and robotic guidance for spine and orthopedic procedures, and is open to third party implants and applications. Enovis agreed to acquire the company in September 2026.

Builds robotically assisted radiation therapy systems for brachytherapy and intraoperative radiation therapy. Its Vektra platform follows Sculptura, a beam-sculpting system Empyrean bought from Sensus Healthcare in 2022.

EndoQuest is developing a flexible robotic system for endoluminal gastrointestinal surgery performed through natural orifices.

Builds magnetic navigation technology that steers catheters through blood vessels. Spun out of the University of Twente.

Builds the Galen ES, a cooperatively controlled robotic assistant that steadies a surgeon's instrument during ENT procedures. The company was spun out of Johns Hopkins robotics research.

Makes Skylight, a system that projects medical images onto the patient during procedures so surgeons do not use a headset or look away at a monitor. Aimed at spine surgery, pain management and interventional radiology.

MIT spinout building magnetically steerable guidewires with robotic control and navigation software for stroke thrombectomy.

Makes Symani, a robotic microsurgery system with wristed instruments sized for blood vessels, lymph channels and nerves. Used in reconstructive, lymphatic and nerve repair procedures.

Builds Focalist, a handheld robotic system that guides needle placement using real-time ultrasound. Used for vascular access, regional nerve blocks and organ access.

Makes Maestro, a surgical robotics system that holds and moves instruments alongside a laparoscopic surgeon rather than replacing the console setup. Its ScoPilot feature automates scope handling.

Nami Surgical builds a miniaturised ultrasonic scalpel small enough to bend and rotate inside a robotic surgical system, cutting tissue and sealing vessels with one instrument.

Builds GI endoscopy devices around a shaft that stiffens on demand. Products are the Pathfinder rigidizing overtube and the Triton robotic colonoscopy system.

Makes thin-film electrode and radiofrequency ablation systems for the brain and nerves, including the Evo cortical and sEEG electrodes and the OneRF ablation systems.

Makes EndoZip, an automated endoscopic suturing system for endoscopic sleeve gastroplasty. The device is run by a single physician and reduces stomach volume without incisions.

Builds the nView s1, a low-dose 3D imaging and surgical guidance system that uses the patient's own anatomy as the navigation map, with pediatric surgery as its focus.

Combines optical imaging, AI and robotics to automate tooth preparation and other dental procedures.

Developing an incisionless surgery system that pairs histotripsy with robotic positioning and AI targeting to destroy tissue without cutting.

Makes a single-sided point-of-care MRI system for prostate procedures, cleared for MRI-guided prostate biopsy, with AI planning and robotic needle guidance still in development.

Builds augmented reality smart glasses that turn a patient's medical scans into a 3D model for intraoperative guidance during knee replacement.

Computer-vision navigation for orthopedic surgery that registers without fiducials or arrays, built as the intelligence layer for later robotic systems. First application is shoulder arthroplasty.

Building a surgical robot for abdominal procedures sized for operating rooms outside large hospitals, including ambulatory surgery centers.

Ronovo Surgical makes Carina, a modular multi-specialty laparoscopic surgical robot approved in China in 2025.

Robotic platform for remote endovascular procedures, pairing a bedside unit that drives guidewires and catheters with a radiation-free control suite. Also sells Inflante, a digitally controlled indeflator for balloon inflation.

Developing the Vasuki robotic system for upper and lower gastrointestinal endoscopy, with automation aimed at colonoscopy.

Builds TMINI, a cordless handheld robotic system for total knee replacement that works from a CT based 3D plan and guides bone pin placement.

Builds Aletta, an autonomous robotic blood-draw device that images the vein, inserts the needle and collects the sample. CE-marked in Europe; FDA granted De Novo authorization in August 2026.

Sells a navigation and robotics platform that uses computer vision for image guidance in minimally invasive procedures. The Zeta Navigation System and Zeta TMS Navigation System are FDA cleared.