Where on Earth Did They Develop a Surgeon-Guided Robotic System That Enables Least Invasive Knee Surgery?
Florida. Innovation Hub of the Americas®. Getting the Most Out of Least Invasive Surgery SolutionsSouth Florida-based MAKO (Minimally Arthoscopic Keyhole Orthopedics) Surgical Corp. is a medical device company that is developing advanced technologies and procedures for least invasive knee surgery. The company’s innovative computer-assisted surgical navigation technologies, robotics and novel therapies for orthopedic surgery have resulted in over 230 patents, an FDA clearance for several of its products and over $55 million in VC funding. The MAKO Haptic Guidance System™ is an FDA-cleared, surgeon-guided robotics system that empowers the orthopedic surgeon to plan and execute the complex surgery precisely and accurately through a minimally invasive “keyhole” incision. “It’s really the integration of human capability with machine precision,” says Dr. Maurice Ferré, President and CEO of MAKO. “Our proprietary piece is that we take MIS bone sculpting accuracy to a new benchmark level witho
