Smith+Nephew (CORI) alternatives

Smith+Nephew built its CORI Surgical System around a handpiece rather than a robot arm: a camera tracks the joint hundreds of times per second while a robotic burr in the surgeon's hand mills bone only within the planned boundaries, so no large robotic arm occupies the operating room. The UK group entered surgical robotics with the NAVIO platform in 2016 and launched CORI in the US in 2020; its parent company, founded in 1856 and listed in London and New York, centres US orthopaedics operations in Memphis, Tennessee. Stereotaxis works at the other end of the body and the size scale: its Robotic Magnetic Navigation uses computer-controlled magnetic fields to steer catheter and guidewire tips through the heart's vessels and chambers from beside the table. Stryker's Mako SmartRobotics is the reference orthopaedic robotic-arm platform, installed in 47 countries under a parent listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Zimmer Biomet's ROSA family covers orthopaedic and neurosurgical assistance, originating with Medtech SA in Montpellier before the 2016 acquisition. Distalmotion leaves orthopaedics for soft tissue: the Swiss company's DEXTER system is commercialised in Europe, with US clearances covering gallbladder, hernia and colorectal procedures. CORI fits orthopaedic teams wanting handheld guidance without a floor-standing arm; Mako and ROSA serve arm-based orthopaedic programmes, Stereotaxis belongs in the electrophysiology lab, and Distalmotion is the soft-tissue option here.

Alternatives to Smith+Nephew (CORI)

Stereotaxis

Stereotaxis is the pioneer of Robotic Magnetic Navigation (RMN), a surgical robotics approach in which computer-controlled magnetic fields, generated by magnets on robotic arms beside the operating table, steer the tips of magnetic catheters and guidewires through the blood vessels and chambers of the heart.

Stryker (Mako)

Stryker is a US medical technology group whose Mako SmartRobotics platform is the reference system in orthopaedic robotic-arm assisted surgery.

Zimmer Biomet (ROSA)

Zimmer Biomet is a US orthopaedics group whose ROSA Robotics platform is its multi-application surgical robot family.

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.

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