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When the Solution Comes Before the Problem | Anne Osdoit, Moon Surgical

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Anne Osdoit discusses how Moon Surgical was founded around a highly differentiated robotic arm technology before identifying specific clinical problems to solve. The broad applicability of the technology across surgical applications made it a potential category-defining project in surgical robotics.

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Anne Osdoit

Moon Surgical

Moon Surgical develops robotic surgical technology, specifically a differentiated robotic arm platform for surgical applications.

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I went to see that technology and gathered a few robotics experts to understand what it was about. And the technology was highly differentiated. The way the robotic arm was built and what it meant in terms of manipulation was highly differentiated versus what exists in our field. And so then the question became okay what is it going to be useful for right and when we started brainstorming about this the applicability was extremely broad. And therefore I thought okay this can be like a real gamecher in terms of the size of the market it can address and the how profound the impact is going to be. Essentially it was about okay this can be a category defining type of project and that's what made it exciting. So the solution was before a problem