Minute Insight: Stryker Partners With Microbot To Create Liberty Neurointervention Robot

The companies announced a strategic collaboration to integrate Stryker’s neurovascular instruments with Microbot’s Liberty robot to create procedure kits specifically for neurovascular interventions.

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Stryker has agreed to work with Microbot Medical Inc. to develop the world’s first robotic procedure kits for neurovascular interventions.

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