Our expertise
We develop digital surgery platforms and ecosystems that augment surgeon decision-making, reduce outcomes variability, and increase procedural efficiency to improve the standard of patient care.
We architect high value digital surgery platforms by combing deep expertise in robotics, sensing, optics, artificial intelligence and machine learning, augmented reality, human factors, wireless connectivity, digital service design, and business model transformation.
Realising digital surgery
The healthcare industry is eagerly awaiting the reduced costs and improved outcomes that digital surgery is promising, but are we taking the right steps to bring it to life? Are our legacy systems, methods, and strategies well suited to deliver digital transformation?
This presentation explores the changes that are coming in surgery and the evolution of thinking required to create products and technologies to form the foundation of the digital future.
Innovation and insights
Superhuman surgery: AI-enhanced imaging at the Hamlyn Symposium 2022
AI-based methods are offering superhuman image enhancement. But their medical applications are not without risk – unless, that is, you consider a hybrid approach…
- Digital health
Leap: The tiny camera that will disrupt intravascular imaging
‘Leap’ is a watershed moment for intravascular surgery: a single-use, high-definition miniature camera that allows a digital view inside veins and arteries for the first time.
- AI & Analytics
- Digital health
- Industrial design
- Innovation management
- Optics
Data interoperability is crucial to the future of ophthalmology
These are crucial times for the future of ophthalmology. Technology wise, we are better placed than ever to confront the challenges. But continued innovation will not solve everything...
- Digital health
- Human factors
- Physical sciences
Unlocking Human-Machine Understanding through real-time emotional state monitoring
The extraordinary potential of what we might term empathic technology promises rich human/machine relationships that are almost unimaginable.
- AI & Analytics
- Digital service innovation
- Sensing
Why digital biomarkers are vital for a patient-empowering connected health future
The pandemic has accelerated our path towards an inevitable conclusion – a digitally connected healthcare future that empowers both patients and carers alike. The opportunities are out there, so what’s the next step for pharma companies and device developers with ambitions in the space?
- Digital health
X-ray vision surgery
An exploration of how augmented reality could pave the way for the future transformation of surgery.
- Augmented reality & virtual reality
Why the world needs digitally-connected medicine, starting right now
Dr Ashwini Sharan and Cambridge Consultants recently provoked debate with the release of a visionary film, ‘A day in the life of a Parkinson’s patient in 2030’, which imagined seamless therapy enabled by smart implants, surgical robotics, digital connectivity and AI. Here, Ash explains why his ambitions for the future of medicine are not just blue-sky thinking but a rallying cry for the healthcare world…
- Digital health
- Human factors
- Physical sciences
Ophthalmology - forging a bold vision for 2040
We have arrived at the most significant crossroads in ophthalmology that any of us can ever remember. It’s time for a bold vision of 2040 that all of us can share...
- Digital health
- Human factors
- Physical sciences
We can help you achieve the impossible
Facilities and tools
Digital operating room
Our Digital Operating Room is a unique innovation lab enabling clients and surgeons to collaborate with our R&D teams on transforming the future of surgery. This innovation space accelerates the development of digital surgery platforms, like next-generation surgical robots and visualization systems, as well as smart implants, and critical care systems. Clients use our Digital Operating Room for strategy and visioning workshops, human factors formative research, concept brainstorming, prototype development, and verification testing of complex digital surgery platforms.
Robotics lab - Boston, MA
This dedicated robotics research and prototyping facility enables us to develop industrial automation, warehouse robotics, cobots, agri-robots and medical robotics. This lab contains several six-axis and SCARA manipulators, hardware-in-the loop control prototyping systems, 2D and 3D vision systems, and autonomous mobile robot prototyping platforms.
VR lab
With a permanent workstation and space for room-scale testing with multiple users, we are ready to start experimenting and developing at a moment’s notice. Our VR lab features high-end machines capable of developing immersive, high-fidelity VR experiences and software licenses for the latest development tools.
Optics labs
Our suite optics labs enable us to build complex and high-precision optical layouts, typically for testing prototype designs and novel techniques prior to deployment. Featuring six high-spec optical benches with configurable interlocked controlled areas for high-power (class 4) laser work and specialist facilities for interferometry, spectroscopy, low-noise fluorescence imaging and photon counting. This space can be split into separate laser-controlled areas, allowing multiple experiments to run simultaneously, giving our optical engineers the capability to develop creative solutions without instrumentation restrictions.