CMR Surgical alternatives

CMR Surgical is a Cambridge, United Kingdom company founded in 2014 that builds surgical robots to make minimally invasive, keyhole surgery more widely available, with its headquarters at Evolution Business Park in Cambridge and its main manufacturing hub in Ely. Its systems serve hospitals across Europe, Latin America, the AMEA region and Australia, and it entered the United States market through FDA 510(k) clearance and an exclusive United States commercial agency agreement announced in October 2026, having stated in April 2025 that it had surpassed US$1 billion raised. Curexo, a Seoul company whose medical robot business dates to 2006, specialises in orthopaedic and spine surgical robots and gait rehabilitation robots, exporting from South Korea to markets including the United States, Europe and India as a KOSDAQ-listed company. Distalmotion, founded in Epalinges, Switzerland in 2012, commercialises its DEXTER robotic soft-tissue surgery system in Europe, with FDA clearances in the United States covering cholecystectomy, inguinal hernia repair and colorectal procedures. EndoQuest Robotics, founded in Houston in 2017 as ColubrisMX, develops a flexible endoluminal system intended to perform gastrointestinal procedures through natural passages with no external scars, at clinical-trial stage in the United States. ForSight Robotics, founded in Israel in 2020, automates ophthalmic surgery starting with cataract procedures, reporting more than 110 employees and $195 million raised in total, as company-stated. Each alternative narrows CMR's broad keyhole ambition to one anatomy: joints and spine, soft tissue, the gut or the eye.

Alternatives to CMR Surgical

Curexo

Curexo is a South Korean medical robot company based in Seoul, specialising in surgical and rehabilitation robots.

Distalmotion

Distalmotion is a Swiss surgical robotics company founded in 2012 and based in Epalinges, in the Lausanne area, with a US office in Cleveland, Ohio.

EndoQuest Robotics

EndoQuest Robotics, Inc. is a Houston, Texas medical device company developing a flexible robotic system for endoluminal surgery — operating inside the body’s natural passages, through the mouth or anus, or through a single transumbilical incision — so that gastrointestinal procedures can be performed with no external scars.

ForSight Robotics

ForSight Robotics Ltd. is an Israeli surgical robotics company founded in 2020 to automate ophthalmic surgery, starting with cataract procedures — the world’s most common surgery — and extending to other widespread eye diseases such as glaucoma and retinal conditions.

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