Activ Surgical’s CEO Todd Usen sat down with Medtech Insight to discuss the company’s product portfolio – ActivSight, an imaging module technology and ActivInsights, which uses artificial intelligence and machine learning to produce further clinical insights based on surgical data.

Hospitals’ budgets for capital equipment have been strained during the pandemic, but they will continue to invest in digital surgery and robotics because the technologies offer value to patients, according to executives at The Virtual MedTech Conference.

Autonomous robotic systems that enhance the skillset of surgeons face a gradual evolution, the experts agreed.