Robotic-assisted surgery is moving into a different phase of growth. New competitors with new ideas are coming into the industry and user awareness has been enhanced. UK scale-up CMR Surgical views these as healthy developments, says business development chief Bertrand Weil.

Robotic-assisted surgery is moving into a different phase of growth. New competitors with new ideas are coming into the industry and user awareness has been enhanced. UK scale-up CMR Surgical views these as healthy developments, says business development chief Bertrand Weil.

Sofinnova Partners’ early-stage, "stay lean" approach to funding and incubating innovative medtech is unique in Europe, believes partner Anne Osdoit. She is seeking more investments for the company’s major MD Start III fund, while trying not to focus too much on thoughts of the next iteration.

Robot’s surgeon or surgeon’s robot? Swiss innovator Distalmotion is pressing ahead with the latter approach having added new directors, and new funding and commercial scale-up resources to further the global vision for its laparoscopic-robotic surgery tool with a difference.