Regulator
Health Canada registered the LightStrike6 robot for sale to healthcare facilities in Canada.
A regulator's decision · Company-reported · Sets LightStrike's stage
What the source says
“has received Registration from Health Canada for sale and distribution to healthcare facilities across Canada.”
What it means
LightStrike, from Xenex Disinfection Services, is at stage 5 of 5 on our ladder: regulator-cleared or mass market. 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 LightStrike
- Xenex said hospitals using LightStrike had completed 44 million cycles.
- Xenex said its robots had run more than 40 million cycles in more than 1,200 hospitals and healthcare sites.
- The FDA cleared the LightStrike+ robot through the De Novo route, creating a new device category for UV robots that reduce germs on hard surfaces in healthcare settings.
- Xenex raised $38 million in a round led by Essex Woodlands.
- Japanese medical company Terumo agreed to sell LightStrike robots in Japan.