Analysis:
XACT Robotics’s XACT ACE Robotic System has proven to be a highly effective for robotically assisted percutaneous procedures. The system allows for CT-guided, hands free, robotic insertion and instrument steering, dexterously and exactingly positioning instruments within the body. According to XACT Robotics, the ACE system is the only product that can steer an instrument through a non-linear trajectory. The advanced capabilities of the XACT Robotics’s solution underscores why the use of robotics assisted surgical systems continues to increase steadily in number and the types of procedures they support. In addition, investment funding for surgical robotics firms remains high and show no signs of abatement. As expected, new systems and supporting technologies come to market with regularity. XACT Robotics’s ACE Xtend solution is such a type of supporting technology. ACE Xtend protects surgeons and others from harmful exposure to radiation and pathogens during procedures, while reducing physical strain on the system’s operator. That is a good thing, which will also generate additional opportunities for using XACT’s ACE Robotic System, as well as remove one more adoption barrier for robotics assisted surgical solutions overall. – Dan Kara