Medical
ForSight said surgeons did the first cataract operation on a human patient with the robot, now renamed JASPER. The study's lead doctor is at the Asian Eye Institute in Manila, Philippines.
A dated step forward on the record · Company-reported · Sets JASPER (formerly Oryom)'s stage
What the source says
“it completed its first robot-assisted cataract surgery in a human patient using its JASPER platform.”
What it means
JASPER (formerly Oryom), from ForSight Robotics, is at stage 3 of 5 on our ladder: pilot. This event is one of the milestones that placed it there. This line rests on the company's own announcement; no regulator, customer or independent report confirms it in our sources yet.
Human help: Our sources report it working without human help.
More on JASPER (formerly Oryom)
- ForSight said 26 patients had now had cataract surgery with JASPER in its first human study.
- The robot, first called Oryom, was renamed JASPER (Joint Aligned System for Precise Eye Robotics).
- ForSight raised $125 million in a Series B round to develop its eye-surgery robot. Backers include Eclipse, Intuitive Surgical co-founder Fred Moll and Adani Group.
- Israel-based ForSight Robotics raised $10 million in a seed round led by Eclipse Ventures and Mithril Capital.