MIRA will go into space for simulated surgical testing aboard the ISS thanks to a NASA grant Lincoln, Neb. – August 2, 2022 – Virtual Incision Corporation, a medical device company pioneering the world’s first miniaturized robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) platform, today announced that its MIRA™ Platform will test its skills in space on a 2024 technology demonstration mission aboard […]
Company Begins IDE Study, Advancing Goal of Bringing Robotically Assisted Surgery to Any U.S. Hospital or Ambulatory Surgery Center Lincoln, Neb., and Pleasanton, Calif. – August, 16, 2021 – Virtual Incision Corporation, a medical device company pioneering first-of-its-kind miniaturized robots for laparoscopic surgery, today announced that the world’s first surgery using the MIRA™ (“miniaturized in vivo […]
On June 29, 2021, The Annals of Internal Medicine published a systemic review of robot-assisted abdominopelvic surgery to “assess the quality of evidence and outcomes of robot-assisted surgery compared with laparoscopy and open surgery in adults.” The conclusion of the review found “no clear advantage (in laparoscopy and open surgery in adults) with existing robotic platforms…” However, […]
Below is an excerpt from an article originally posted by the University of Nebraska More than 400,000 Americans need colon resection procedures each year to treat lower gastrointestinal diseases such as diverticulitis, colon polyps, pre-cancerous and cancerous colon lesions and inflammatory bowel disease.
Below is an excerpt for the featured article in General Surgery News We’ve glimpsed a possible future of robotic surgery, and it’s just slightly larger than a bread box. Weighing less than two pounds, the miniaturized in vivo robotic assistant (MIRA) is about the size of a human hand and fits into a patient’s abdomen through a […]
Medical Futurist Interview With John Murphy, President & CEO of Virtual Incision Dear medical futurists, Back in 2017, I wrote about the future of surgery and included a U.S.-based company that developed a robot that can be placed inside a patient’s abdomen and then controlled remotely by a surgeon. This enables surgeries with minimally invasive tools and […]
December 7, 2020 Virtual Incision, a Nebraska Innovation Campus-based medical device company founded by University of Nebraska faculty, has reached another milestone on the road to transforming abdominal surgeries by way of a miniaturized, first-of-its kind surgical robot platform. The Food and Drug Administration granted the company an investigational device exemption, which green lights a clinical study […]