Stryker immediately introduced the restricted market rollout of the Mako RPS (robotic energy system) for Complete Knee. The hand held robotic system combines Stryker’s confirmed Mako robotic know-how with its energy device capabilities. The corporate says the brand new platform represents Mako’s growth into a brand new robotics platform.
On the corporate’s fourth-quarter earnings name final month, it shared that it efficiently started the primary whole knee circumstances for Mako RPS. The corporate plans to showcase Mako RPS on the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) assembly in New Orleans in March.
Mako now contains Mako SmartRobotics, Stryker’s multi-specialty, robotic-arm assisted platform that includes Mako 4, and Mako Handheld Robotics with Mako RPS. The corporate hopes to achieve a brand new market section via compatibility with its Triathlon Complete Knee System.
Stryker designed Mako RPS with intraoperative planning capabilities and a robotically enabled noticed. It options the orthopedic big’s patented lively adjustment know-how, which responds to a surgeon’s hand actions. This guides the noticed to remain aligned with the surgical plan.
Mako RPS simply integrates into the surgical workflow and affords a well-known chopping expertise with out using chopping blocks, Stryker says. The platform additionally works with the corporate’s Q Steering system.
“The Mako model represents our relentless dedication to advancing orthopaedic affected person outcomes via robotics management. With practically 20 years of expertise in orthopaedic robotics and over 2 million procedures carried out throughout 46 nations globally, Mako has established robotics as a typical of care, and we’re thrilled so as to add Mako RPS to the Mako household,” stated Mike Carlin, president of Stryker’s Ortho Tech division.
CEO Kevin Lobo just lately stated Mako RPS might be a less complicated different to Stryker’s surgical robots.
“Mako requires lots of change for the surgeon in addition to for the employees,” Lobo stated on an earnings name final month. “If you concentrate on this handheld, it actually may be very easy, very straightforward to make use of [and] doesn’t require the surgeon to undergo that kind of transition.”
Editor’s Notice: This text was republished from sister web site MassDevice.
