Topic: robotic surgery

TransEnterix received a CE mark broadening the uses of its Senhance digital robotic surgery platform.

Medtronic moved to acquire spine surgery-focused Mazor Robotics, to merge it with its own implants, navigation and imaging offerings.

XACT Robotics raised $5 million alongside a CE mark for its integrated robotic system for image-guided, needle-puncture procedures, such as biopsies.

CMR Surgical unveiled its modular robotic surgery platform for minimally invasive procedures after raising $100 million earlier this summer.

The series B equips CMR to start promoting portable, modular Versius devices intended to make robotic surgery routine.

Medical Microinstruments captured €20 million ($24.5 million) in series A financing it will use to develop a robotic system for microsurgery.

Corindus sees the software update expanding use of percutaneous coronary intervention technology CorPath GRX to more complex procedures.

Johnson & Johnson's unit Apsis acquired French robot-assisted surgery company Orthotaxy for an undisclosed price.

Surgeons can now use the flexible scope to visualize and access sites in procedures that start with incisions to the abdomen or thoracic cavity.

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