Robot-assisted surgery startup Riverfield Surgical Robot Laboratory reportedly raised more than $10 million (¥1.15 billion) for the Emaro robot-assisted surgery platform it’s developing. Based on technology developed at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Riverfield plans to have its device on the Japanese market by 2020, selling at half the price of the da Vinci robot…
Surgical assist robot goes pneumatic
Surgical precision saw a major technological boost in the early 1980s when robots began accompanying doctors in the OR. In recent years, minimally invasive operations have been gaining…
