Transforming surgery. For good.

How can it impact the world and/or benefit society?

By enabling more MAS, we can help patients to recover quicker and reduce post-operative bed days. This has a significant impact on hospitals and healthcare systems, which have enormous pressure on bed days and capacity.

In fact, after implementing a robotics programme with Versius, Milton Keynes University Hospital, UK, were able to save 450 bed days annually (including eight HDU bed days) – an important gain, which is helping the hospital to manage challenging bed pressures more effectively.

Robotics also have the potential to have a positive impact on the healthcare workforce. Versius has been designed with surgeons to minimise the ergonomic impact of procedures on their physical well-being. The open console gives them the option to stand or sit in a comfortable position throughout the entire surgical procedure, helping to reduce their stress and fatigue and supporting them to provide the best quality of care for patients.

What is the market opportunity?

To date, the surgical robotics market is only 3% penetrated globally. In Europe, it is around 1%.

Early generation robotic systems are often large and difficult to move around, which means that they are mostly being used in large, elite teaching hospitals that can dedicate an entire OR to a robot. Therefore, they are not always viable for smaller hospitals outside big cities and surgical centres, which often have high volumes of cases but less access to innovation.

All hospitals that need a robot, regardless of their size and location, should have access to a versatile system that can be highly utilised across departments. To transform surgery for more people, we also need to open up a very under penetrated market outside of the large central teaching hospitals.

We have already seen significant demand in this area – including from customers such as Argenteuil Hospital in France and Cristo Re in Italy.