Keyword: Verb Surgical

With a rare new entrant, the minimally invasive robotic surgery arena may be ripe for a shake-up in 2018.

Mazor Robotics earned an FDA nod for its software that helps surgeons plan spinal deformity corrections and spinal alignment procedures.

Verily and Ethicon’s robotics joint venture, Verb Surgical, announced Thursday that it unveiled its first digital surgery prototype to its partners at the companies as well as to execs from parent companies Alphabet and Johnson & Johnson.

Verb Surgical is working on what it sees as "Surgery 4.0": the next iteration of surgery that incorporates robotics, advanced visualization, machine learning, data analytics and connectivity.