A company that’s created the first robot-assisted flexible endoscopic platform for surgery has raised a nice lump sum – Massachusetts devicemaker Medrobotics has raised $20 million. The dollars will be used to pursue commercial launches across Europe, and pursue the nebulous waters of U.S. regulatory approval. The company’s endoscope is meant to enable minimally invasive […]
The third generation of Given Imaging‘s PillCam SB got FDA approval today, and President and CEO Homi Shamir said the product should launch in October of this year. The device, a capsule with a camera inside which the patient swallows takes more than 60,000 images before it exits the digestive system. As the Israel-based continues […]
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Beacon Endoscopic Corp. has raised $1.2 million in debt financing from existing investors to fund commercial growth for its bnx™ fine needle aspiration for EUS in the US and abroad, company CEO and President Bill Densel said. Beacon made its regulatory filing to the SEC on July 22. The bnx™ system is “designed to reduce […]
Repurposing its interest in 3-D imaging, Sony has created an endoscope video-imaging processor that’s distinct because of its wearability. Surgeons put this one on their heads. On Aug. 1, doctors in Japan will be able to use a “a head-mount image processing unit capable of receiving and outputting endoscope image signals, or controlling video images, […]