Robotic surgery is not as new as it seems. Robots have been operated on for more than 20 years, but they are only used for 3% of all surgeries that could be done with robots. This is due to the slow, expensive and inflexible robotics that current systems provide.
Bitrack System improves robotics with an open, flexible and versatile platform formed by a column of four arms that allow controlling the movements of surgical instruments with submillimeter precision. This system improves the efficiency of current surgical robotics, allowing precision surgery to be universalized.
The purpose of universalizing precision surgery includes the distribution and installation of the Bitrack surgical robot in the greatest number of hospitals possible, including highly complex ones, medium-sized hospitals and even essential specialty centers.
Jaume Amat, CEO of the company, argues the purpose of Rob Surgical: ”With current systems, when a hospital plans a surgery with a robot, it does everything with it, both the parts where it makes sense and those where it does not provide differential value. This makes robotics slow, expensive and inflexible. Furthermore, it has caused these types of operations to remain trapped at the top of the pyramid: in reference hospitals and surgeons and in highly complex operations.”
These are some of the main features that allow the Bitrack to universalize precision surgery:
- The cost per operation is reduced to more than half of what each intervention with a current robot currently costs.
- The design of this surgical robot allows for more intensive use and very easy transportation, in such a way that operations could be performed in one center and the next day moved to another location, optimizing its performance.
- It is an open robotic platform, compatible with the systems, monitors, cameras and trocars that the hospital already has.
- One of the great advantages of the Bitrack system is its single-use instruments. They save cleaning costs and are compatible with the same trocars.
- The system only consists of two elements: robot and console. This reduction makes it easier for the robot to be changed and moved from one operating room to another much more easily.
Universalizing precision surgery helps decentralize health systems, allowing medium-sized hospitals to increase the complexity of their portfolio of surgical services. Furthermore, robotic surgery is a very good tool to attract and retain talent in this segment of hospitals and, most importantly, standardizes the medical service offered by health systems in each of the territories, which translates into a better service for the patient.
