Our expertise
We partner with ambitious clients to conceptualise, design, and deliver the advanced surgical systems of tomorrow.
Over two decades our teams have been involved with over 25 individual robotic developments, spanning robotic system architecture, robotic instrument development, safety and control architecture, surgical navigation, advanced optics, novel sensing, and human factors engineering.
Our advanced visualisation expertise includes fluorescence imaging, Near-infrared, multi-spectral and hyperspectral imaging, ultrasound, OCT, meta-surfaces, nanofabrication, digital holography, integrated photonics and quantum sensing.
Innovation and insights
Axsis medical robotic concept
AXSIS demonstrates the possibilities of intelligent robotic design – robots that are dramatically smaller yet significantly more capable than existing surgical equipment.
- Electronics & ASICs
- Embedded software
- Human factors
- Industrial design
- Mechanical engineering
- Robotics
- Sensing
- Signal processing
- User Experience (UX)
Realizing digital surgery: Turning buzzwords into business
This presentation explores the changes driven by digital surgery and how our thinking and methods must evolve to create products and technologies that will form the foundation of the digital future.
- Digital health
- Robotics
- Sensing
- Strategic advice
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
Should robots control accuracy and precision in surgery?
Philosophically speaking, should we be designing systems that autonomously control both accuracy and precision for the best outcome of the patient? Andy Savarese explores some of the deeper questions that are starting to be asked by clients – and looks ahead as the role of robotics continues to evolve.
- Digital health
- Human factors
- Physical sciences
- Robotics
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
System architecture – your vital blueprint for success as a surgical start-up
Now you’ve got a talented team together, surely it’s time to push on to design and build your device? Not quite. In the latest in his series of articles, our VP Surgical Robotics & Advanced Surgical Systems Andrew Savarese explains the crucial importance of system architecture, the vital blueprint for project efficiency…
- Digital health
- Human factors
- Physical sciences
- Robotics
Innovating for emerging markets
How needs-driven innovation offers unprecedented opportunities for the surgical device industry
Collaborating with Cambridge University on a breakthrough in advanced optical sensing
The ability to count and track individual units of light can have an exciting range of applications across medtech and beyond, as a recent collaboration with Cambridge University has proved. Principal electronics engineer Oliver Hicks explains more…
- Electronics & ASICs
- Optics
- Physical sciences
- Sensing
- Signal processing
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.
Human factors lab
Our Human Factors Workshop is a hub for user-centered design. Our team can meet a variety of client and project needs in this highly adaptable space, such as creating a comfortable home environment for a patient, hosting large client teams for observation of a simulated surgery or discussing strategic product visions with a panel of stakeholders. With this in-house capability, we conduct user research and obtain product feedback quickly and effectively, keeping users at the forefront of design.
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.
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.