If it was any other way, we’d still be a science project,” he says.
“We had to show that the surgeon has complete and absolute control at all times. They raised it as a serious red flag,” says Medrobotics CEO Samuel Straface. “When we approached the FDA, almost the first question out of their mouth was about the autonomous nature of the robot. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA’s) requirements. Interestingly, the biggest hassle was ensuring that the robot was dumb enough to meet the U.S. market just last year (and the European market the year before that), and getting it approved by regulators was no easy task, Medrobotics executives told Spectrum.
“It is the future of head and neck surgery.” His surgical colleagues in the colorectal and OB-GYN departments are also planning clinical trials using the Flex, Goldenberg told IEEE Spectrum. “It really is changing the way I do business,” says David Goldenberg, director of otolaryngology surgery at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. Letting such a robot glide into any of your other orifices may sound more alarming still.īut the Flex Robotic System from Medrobotics, in Raynham, Mass., has earned high praise from a head and neck surgeon who has sent it snaking down 19 of his patients’ throats as of today. Letting a snake-like robot glide into your mouth and down your throat may sound a bit alarming.
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