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Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Centerline Biomedical Raises $33 Million in Series B Financing

Centerline Biomedical, Inc. (Centerline), a private medical technology company, announced the closing of a $33 million Series B equity financing led by Cleveland Clinic with participation by GE Healthcare, RIK Enterprises, JobsOhio, Jumpstart Ventures and G2 Group Ventures. This funding will help...

June 27, 2022

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Lumendi Files for FDA 510(k) Clearance for Two New Products

Lumendi, LLC has announced it has filed for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for DiLumen EZ¹, a single-use, disposable endotherapy device intended for endoscopic mucosal resections (EMR) and difficult colonoscopies. The new design, based on the long-standing...

May 24, 2022

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Article Reviews the Evolution of Arthroscopy from its Invention in 1912 to the Dawn of the Wireless ArthroFree™ Era

A recent history of arthroscopy by Dr. James S. Williams, Jr., and Dr. Asheesh Gupta reports that while there have been numerous incremental advances in arthroscopic camera technology over the last half-century, the current systems remain largely unchanged. Surgeons are...

May 23, 2022

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Limaca Medical Receives FDA Breakthrough Device Designation

Limaca Medical (“Limaca”) announced that its Precision-GI™ Endoscopic Ultrasound Biopsy Product has received a Breakthrough Device Designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (“FDA”). The Precision-GI™ device is designed to obtain tumor tissue within or adjacent to the gastrointestinal tract....

May 13, 2022

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Blackrock Neurotech Acquires Spatial Computing Software Firm MindX to Commercialize Full-Stack Brain-Computer Interface Product

Blackrock Neurotech, a leading implantable brain-computer interface (“BCI”) technology backed by world-renowned investors Peter Thiel and Christian Angermeyer, announced the acquisition of spatial computing software firm MindX, integrating the Company’s innovative augmented reality (“AR”) and artificial intelligence (“AI”) technology with Blackrock’s BCI hardware....

April 20, 2022

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

TendoNova wins FDA Clearance for Its New Microinvasive Ocelot Surgical Tool

TendoNova, an emerging leader in microinvasive sports medicine procedures, is pleased to announce the FDA 510(k) clearance of its new Ocelot surgical tool, which uses an innovative technology for fragmentation or debridement of soft tissue. The FDA found the Ocelot...

March 23, 2022

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

CoapTech to Initiate Clinical Trial for its PUMA-G Peds System for Pediatric Gastrostomy

CoapTech, Inc, a medical device company focused on delivering transformative solutions for minimally-invasive surgery, announced it has received an Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to initiate a clinical trial for its PUMA-G Peds System, a...

March 8, 2022

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

Lazurite™ to Showcase its ArthroFree™ Wireless Camera System at Multiple Upcoming Conferences

Medical device and technology company Lazurite Holdings LLC announced that its ArthroFree™ wireless camera system for minimally invasive surgery will be available for viewing and hands-on demonstration at these four upcoming medical conferences: Annual Meeting of the Society of American Gastrointestinal...

March 4, 2022

Surgery and Surgical Robotics

EvoEndo Announces US FDA 510(k) Clearance for their Single-Use, Unsedated Transnasal Endoscopy System

EvoEndo®, Inc. (“EvoEndo”), a medical device company developing systems for Unsedated Transnasal Endoscopy (TNE), has announced the receipt of 510(k) clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to begin marketing and sale of the EvoEndo® Single-Use Endoscopy System....

February 17, 2022