The oncological surgical developer has been spun out from ICL with investment from China and Hong Kong.

Imperial College London (ICL) today spun out an oncological surgical robotics developer called Precision Robotics with an undisclosed sum of funding from a consortium of unnamed China and Hong Kong-based investors.

Precision Robotics aims to develop a flexible and manoeuvrable robotic arm to help conduct surgical procedures more accurately, coupled with 3D augmented reality-based imaging software to aid visualisation of where to make excisions of tissue.

The technology will initially be used for colorectal oncological surgery, procedures targeting cancer in…