2011 TiE50 Company Profile

  
Company: TransEnterix, Inc.
Year Founded: 2006
Employee Count: N/A
Location: 635 Davis Drive, Suite 300, Durham, NC 27713, Durham, NC, USA - 27713
Website: http://www.transenterix.com

Overview:

Transenterix Inc., is advancing surgery through innovation. The company innovation is a collaborative process for practicing surgeons partner with engineers to design, prototype and test new advances in surgery. The Spider® Surgical System pioneers a new class of minimally invasive surgery, flexible laparoscopy. Spider MicroLap™ Instruments are enables a new class of surgery Micro Laparoscopy. The innovation allows surgeons through a single incision uses tiny surgical instruments. The Spider® Surgical System is a revolutionary surgical platform, which allows many abdominal procedures to be performed through a single incision in the belly button potentially creating a virtually scarless result. Spider Surgery, the approach represents a significant advance in minimally invasive surgery. The Spider’s unique design accommodates a range of small flexible instruments plus a tiny laparoscopic camera, all of which are operated through a slim tube. The system could be inserted through an incision approximately the same size as a dime (18mm). The company embraces exploration and collaboration to design, test, manufacture and continuously improve new technologies placed in surgeons’ hands.

Share this on Facebook  google  Twitter  LinkedIn  newsvine  Stumble Upon  Technorati  Share this on del.icio.us  Digg this  Email  
Vote for your favorite company by entering an email address for every vote.
Enter your Email ID:    Thumbs UP0 LikesThumbs Down0 dislikes