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Vicarious Surgical Robotic System: The 200 Best Inventions of 2022
Find out why Vicarious Surgical Robotic System made this year's list
time.com
One Tiny Incision
Vicarious Surgical Robotic System
Vicarious Surgical’s mission is to make surgeries safer. The company created a robotic system featuring a camera with 360-degree views: surgeons wear a VR headset while controlling the robot’s two arms, each with 28 sensors for extreme precision. The starting point? A 1.5 cm (0.6 in.) incision through which the robot enters the patient’s body. “Complication rates from open surgeries are 15% to 20%, just from the incision,” says Vicarious Surgical CEO Adam Sachs. “By making incisions really small … you can knock complication rates down to about 1%.” The company, which went public last year, is currently building its Beta 2 prototype with plans to introduce the $1.2 million system to hospitals as early as 2024.
