DePuy Synthes' Measured Path To Building A Digital Surgery Capability

C-SATS has been added to the Johnson & Johnson group's expanding robotics technology base, which really found its momentum in orthopedics when Orthotaxy came into the group.

Bringing together the various assets and capabilities of Johnson & Johnson's DePuy Synthes orthopedic division will be a challenge, but it is one that global head of R&D Euan Thomson, PhD, relishes, especially now that the key elements have been brought into the group.

The key 'game-changer' for orthopedics, as Thomson described in an interview with In Vivo, was the February 2018 purchase of...

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