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Hansen Medical raises $75M in IPO

Friday, December 29th, 2006

Hansen Medical, a US based medical robotics company has raised $75M in it’s IPO. The company had previously raised over $50M from VCs.

Hansen make the ‘Sensei’ robotic catheter system. If you want to try out the system visit the 12th Annual Boston Atrial Fibrillation Symposium where you can get a ‘hands-on’ demonstration.

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Robotic Surgery Experimentation

Thursday, September 7th, 2006

Interesting article on TechNewsWorld covering the latest advances in Robotic Surgery including:

  • Robotic surgery 62 feet underwater 3.2 miles off the coast as a practice run for surgery in space
  • Telesurgery for rural patients
  • Less invasive robotic prostatectomies

Read the full article here.

Via Future Health IT.

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