World’s First Surgery Using Virtual Incision’s MIRA Miniature Robotic System Performed at Bryan Medical Center in Lincoln, Nebraska
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Virtual Incision Corporation , a medical device company pioneering first-of-its-kind miniaturized robots for laparoscopic surgery, today announced that the worlds first surgery using the MIRA (miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant) Surgical Platform has been successfully performed by Michael A. Jobst, M.D., at Bryan Medical Center in Lincoln, Neb.
Key Points:
- Virtual Incision Corporation , a medical device company pioneering first-of-its-kind miniaturized robots for laparoscopic surgery, today announced that the worlds first surgery using the MIRA (miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant) Surgical Platform has been successfully performed by Michael A. Jobst, M.D., at Bryan Medical Center in Lincoln, Neb.
- Weighing only two pounds, the miniature platform has full robotic capabilities, and can easily be moved from room to room.
- With its foundational intellectual property including more than 200 patents and applications Virtual Incision is poised to lead the next wave of innovation in robotic surgery with the pioneering MIRA system.
- Virtual Incisions MIRA Surgical Robotic Platform features a small, self-contained surgical device that is inserted through a single midline umbilical incision in the patients abdomen.