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Microbot Medical receives FDA 510(k) clearance for Liberty endovascular robotic system
Microbot Medical today announced that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for the Liberty system, the first FDA cleared single use, remotely operated robotic system for peripheral endovascular procedures, states the company in a recent press…
Stereotaxis seeks to broaden use of its robotic magnetic navigation system into multiple endovascular fields
Stereotaxis has announced a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory submission for the first robotically navigated catheter designed to expand usage of robotic magnetic navigation into the broader endovascular field. Emagin 5F is the first in a family of robotically…
Open surgery, endovascular intervention and robotics: The coming ‘third revolution’ in vascular surgery
The 2025 Southern Association for Vascular Surgery (SAVS) presidential address featured the hashtag phrase #OnlyUs, an allusion to the specialty’s “unique” differentiator. SAVS 2024–25 President Alan Lumsden, MD, returned to a familiar recent theme for his address to the 49th…
Microbot Medical announces FDA submission for commercialization of Liberty endovascular robotic system
Microbot Medical recently announced that it has submitted a 510(k) premarket notification to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its Liberty endovascular robotic system. A press release details that Liberty is the world’s first single-use, fully disposable robotic system…
Robotic surgery: ‘We’ve missed the boat on this,’ says Houston vascular chief
An emerging program at Houston Methodist aims to help prod those practicing in the vascular surgical space deeper into the field of robotic surgery. The first ah-ha during a talk at a national meeting being given by one of the…
Clinical evaluation of robotic-assisted peripheral artery intervention in human completed
Aopeng Medical’s Allvas endovascular intervention surgical robot has successfully carried out a first-in-human clinical evaluation of a robot-assisted peripheral artery intervention of an iliac artery in the department of vascular surgery at Changhai Hospital in Shanghai, China. The procedure was…
Integration of 3D imaging and optimized 3D robotic control set to be ‘important’ part of vascular surgery future
NEW YORK—The marriage of 3D imaging and robotics in hybrid operating suites promises to be a pivotal aspect of the future in vascular surgery—part of advances in the field that down the road will see surgeons look back on the…