One of the benefits of surgical robots is the ability to bring standard precision to procedures performed almost anywhere and by almost anyone. However, most systems have focused on everything under the neck.
ForSight Robotics aims to bring the same benefits to eye surgery and has raised $ 10 million to begin building a small system with the goal of bringing vision correction procedures to a wider population.
The seed cycle, supported by Eclipse Ventures and Mithril Capital, will support ForSight’s plans to introduce microsurgical robots with computer vision and machine learning algorithms, which will explore future eye methods. to help reproduce the experience of in – demand ophthalmic surgeons – with many countries having just over to several dozen professionals trained per million people.
“Our goal is to democratize this very positive approach, giving patients around the world easy access to the treatment that can restore their vision,” said co. ForSight founder and CEO Daniel Glozman, formerly of Medtronic Ventor Technologies, Magenta Medical, Diagnostic Robotics and Guide-X.
The company was also co-founded by Moshe Shoham, a former founder of Mazor Robotics prior to its acquisition by Medtronic, and Joseph Nathan, who helped lead the health care commercialization at the Israel Institute of Technology Technion and led enterprise work. new at the Alfred Mann Institute in the center.
At the same time, the Israeli-based company’s strategic advisory board includes robotics pioneer Fred Moll, MD, co-founder of Intuitive Surgical and Auris Health, as well as co-founder Mako Surgical and Magic Leap Rony Abovitz and co-founder Mithril Ajay Royan.
“As numbers grow and age, robotic-assisted surgery is an essential tool to simultaneously advance techniques and expand access to high-quality medical knowledge,” Royan said. “The ForSight mission will benefit hundreds of millions around the world.”
The company’s platform aims to give surgeons full freedom of movement while manipulating devices with precise movements that amount to a few microns along with 3D images and real-time guidance.