Meet the tiny robot that could save your life someday
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It’s not exactly the sci-fi stuff of the movie, in which doctors are injected into the patient’s bloodstream, but it’s futuristic enough that Vicarious has attracted A-list investors including Bill Gates, Vinod Khosla, Eric Schmidt and Jerry Yang. It has also received a breakthrough designation from the FDA—the first for a surgical robot—making it eligible for priority review.
“We’re going after the markets where existing surgical robots have struggled,” says Sachs, 30. “There are a lot of copycats out there aiming at the incumbent. They have the same challenges. . . . Our architecture is just totally different.” While Sachs and Khalifa were still in college, they started working with Greene, a bariatric surgeon and friend of Sachs’ family, on a medical device that became the robot. In 2014, after a brief stint at Apple, Sachs officially launched Vicarious with $400,000 in seed funding led by Michael Rothenberg . In 2015, Khalifa quit his job to join.
Hernia repair, the first market Vicarious is targeting, is a huge one, with more than 2 million procedures a year in the U.S. Ventral hernias, common along the midline of the abdominal wall, account for 500,000 procedures and are highly complex. Standard repair involves attaching mesh to the abdominal wall, but it results in recurrence about 20% of the time, often requiring a more extensive fix.
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