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TransEnterix CEO Todd Pope is bringing robotics into the operating room in the form of high-tech laparoscopic surgeries.
Laparoscopic surgery is a procedure that uses small incisions—0.5-1 cm—and long, pencil-like instruments to perform operations using a camera. What TransEnterix is doing, through its Senhance surgical system, is putting a robot interface between the surgeon and the patient.
“Instead of relying on human control of instruments, the surgeon has robotic control, which makes the procedure steadier and more predictable,” Pope told FierceCEO.
“Laparoscopic surgery has been around for 30 years and the next step for it is to add robotics, given the comfort level there is with technology,” Pope said.
Based in Morrisville, North Carolina, TransEnterix was started in 2008 by Dr. Richard Stack and Bill Starling, CEO of Synecor, LLC, a business...