Will we soon be cared for by robots?
This is what the invention of the Montpellier-based medical robotics company Quantum Surgical
(Quantumsurgical.com)
seems to indicate .
Equipped with an articulated arm, a navigation system, a camera and an artificial intelligence algorithm, its Epione robot integrates all the stages of percutaneous ablation in a single solution: planning, targeting, ablation, confirmation.
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Concretely, it is capable of targeting complex and inoperable tumors of the lungs and abdomen (liver, kidneys, pancreas) and destroying them by inserting needles into the damaged tissues.
Available in Lyon
It thus allows practitioners to perform safe, effective and minimally invasive percutaneous tumor ablations.
Four hundred patients have already been treated with Epione since its launch in 2021.
CE marked in Europe for abdominal and lung tumors, authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for abdominal tumors, it is now available…
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