Meet Versius, the surgical robot about to take aim at your organs
WiredWhen Luke Hares met with gynecological surgeon Mark Slack four years ago to talk him through his idea of Versius, a first made-in-Britain surgical robot, the latter's first reaction was one of skepticism. Cambridge-based med-tech CMR Surgical, after raising £75 million in June 2018 from a number of investors including LGT and ABB, has launched his surgical robot - one that hopes to revolutionise medical robotics. Robots have been used since then in Britain to perform minimal access surgery, also called keyhole surgery – a type of operation that is done using small, keyhole incisions rather than open surgery, a longer-established way of operating, which consists of making a large cut across the body to allow the surgeon to look directly at what he is doing. Smaller cuts mean smaller wounds, and smaller wounds mean less blood loss, less complications and less recovery time spent in a hospital bed funded by the NHS – two days on average, in fact, instead of two weeks.
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