Johns Hopkins College spinout Galen Robotics will showcase its subsequent technology of surgical robots throughout its first-ever open home in Pigtown this Friday.
The biomedical robotics startup’s occasion will happen at its headquarters within the 1100 Wicomico constructing from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. A press release notes that this open home displays the corporate’s dedication to creating its merchandise “broadly out there, notably to underserved communities.” Galen Robotics has already financially backed the Baltimore Bolts pupil robotics workforce and supplied internships to native college students.
Galen Robotics plans to make its surgical tech extra broadly out there to hospitals that service underserved communities via a digital surgical procedure as a Service (DSaaS) mannequin. This refers to a shared-risk mannequin that permits hospitals to buy the corporate’s gear with a per-usage payment, the assertion stated.
As well as, the corporate’s participation within the federal Alternative Zone program enabled its anchoring in Baltimore, to which it formally relocated after having beforehand been based mostly in Silicon Valley. Galen Robots initially started in 2016 to commercialize the know-how developed in Johns Hopkins’ Laboratory of Computational Sensing and Robotics.
The assertion famous that a number of “politicians and different key figures” who facilitated the relocation from California can be in attendance. Different attendees embrace Galen Robotics’s personal executives (who will conduct manufacturing facility excursions and robotic demos) and representatives from such enterprise and tech stakeholders as Johns Hopkins, the Maryland Tech Council, the Larger Baltimore Tech Council and the Baltimore Growth Company. Mayor Brandon Scott may also seem and ship remarks round 11:30 a.m.
Study extra concerning the surgical robots that can be on show via this video demo:
Donte Kirby is a 2020-2022 corps member for Report for America, an initiative of The Groundtruth Venture that pairs younger journalists with native newsrooms. This place is supported by the Robert W. Deutsch Basis. -30-
