Asensus Surgical has provided a corporate update in conjunction with its Investor Day.
 
“Our vision is to revolutionize the way surgery is performed and ultimately the way patients are treated. To date, we have made tremendous progress evolving robotically-assisted surgery into Digital Laparoscopy with the combination of our Senhance Surgical System and the intelligent capabilities of our Intelligent Surgical Unit (ISU). However, we expect more from a surgical solution,” Anthony Fernando, president and CEO of Asensus told the press. “We have first-hand knowledge, shaped by thousands of real-world procedures and years of interactions with surgeons and hospitals, of what the market needs, which is much more than just a robot. The best solution will materially reduce surgical variability and deliver improved outcomes. We are working to deliver that solution, a new era of surgery called Performance-Guided Surgery, the foundation of which will be our new LUNA Surgical System and the clinical intelligence capabilities provided to surgeons through the ongoing development of the ISU.”

LUNA—the Company’s Next-Gen Digital Surgery Platform

LUNA was designed based on feedback received from over 10,000 digital laparoscopic procedures. The next-gen system features advanced minimally invasive instrumentation, the first-ever digital interface between surgeon and console, and improved clinical intelligence tools.
 
LUNA is currently in development and not available for use.

New Intelligent Surgical Unit (ISU) Capabilities

Incremental features sets for Asensus’ ISU will include an analytical feature set for pre-op planning to let surgeons map out and plan for specific surgical actions intraoperatives using the ISU’s augmented intelligence.
 
A new safety feature set, which includes “no-fly zone” functionality to identify and mark potential hazards during the operation, will help restrict instruments from moving into defined anatomical structures.
 
A training and education set includes telestration so multiple team members can collaborate in real-time by annotating, highlighting, and drawing on a shared visual display of the surgical field.
 
Last week, Asensus began a multi-year strategic collaboration with Google Cloud to integrate Google Cloud’s secure cloud data architecture and machine learning technologies into Asensus’ Performance-Guided Surgery framework.