Israel’s Authority On Medical Robotics Lifts Curtain Behind Technion’s Success Stories

Moshe Shoham talks about the innovative technologies behind surgical robotics companies Microbot Medical, XACT Robotics, Tamar Robotics and ForSight Robotics, which were all spun out of his laboratory in Israel.    

Robot hand and human finger

In the field of medical robotics, Moshe Shoham needs no introduction. An acclaimed authority of medical robotics, Shoham is one of the few Israelis to be elected to the US National Academy of Engineering and as founder and leader of the medical robotics laboratory at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology has a long history of spin-out companies, including spine surgery company Mazor Robotics Ltd., which was acquired by Medtronic in 2018 in a $1.6bn deal.

In an interview with In Vivo, Shoham noted that medical robotics has come a long way since he started his work 20 years ago on what would become the first...

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