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Vitestro Introduces First Autonomous Phlebotomist Robot In Europe

 
• By Marion Webb

Dutch-based Vitestro will soon enter pivotal clinical trials with its blood-sampling device, which it hopes to market in 2024, pending regulatory approval.

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After four years in stealth mode, Dutch medical robotics company Vitestro unveiled what it hopes will become the first fully autonomous blood-sampling robot to make its way into European hospitals and outpatient clinics by 2024.

Toon Overbeeke, Vitestro’s co-founder and CEO, told Medtech Insight that the blood-sampling robot, which combines artificial intelligence and ultrasound-guided 3D reconstruction with robotic needle insertion, will be evaluated in pivotal...

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