Artificial intelligence (AI) surgical robot corporations Roen Surgical said on the 30th that it signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with U.S. remote surgery platform corporations Sovato to enable safe remote surgery.
Under the agreement, the two sides will combine Roen Surgical's precision surgical robot technology with Sovato's remote surgery network platform to build a global remote surgery system.
Sovato is a corporations co-founded by medical robotics pioneer Dr. Yulun Wang, who founded Computer Motion, the technological foundation of the Da Vinci surgical robot, and Cynthia Perazzo, who founded the telemedicine corporations InTouch Health. Headquartered in California, it is developing a remote surgery platform that is not tied to specific surgical devices, backed by 22 core patents.
The two sides aim to link Roen Surgical's AI-based kidney stone surgical robot Zamenix with the Sovato platform to enable safe and scalable remote surgery across Sovato's global network of medical institutions. The collaboration will proceed by starting with joint technical reviews, then signing a platform integration contract, followed by commercialization.
Remote surgery must allow precise control even under communication latency. Zamenix applies motion scaling and tremor reduction technology to maintain surgical accuracy even in environments with latency on the order of tens of milliseconds (ms). The companies said that combining this with the Sovato platform, which supports a low-latency, redundant, deterministic communications environment, can build a safer, more reliable remote surgery foundation.
Leveraging this collaboration, Roen Surgical plans to gradually expand into global markets, including the United States, by tapping Sovato's U.S. clinical network and market entry experience. The two sides also plan to explore new software-based business models—such as AI surgical assistance systems and training simulations for medical staff—by using remote surgery data accumulated during the partnership.