The Festo-MassRobotics Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst program celebrates the milestones achieved by the program’s four selected global startups at the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum. Key life sciences and robotics speakers to lead the event.
The successful Healthcare Robotics Startup Catalyst program came to an end on April 7th, 2022. The concluding ceremony will be held at the Healthcare Robotics Engineering Forum, Boston Convention and Exhibition Center, on May 11, 2022. The event includes an impressive lineup of speakers: Fady Saad, Co-founder & Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at MassRobotics; Alfons Riek, Vice President of Technology and Innovation at Festo; Kendalle Burlin O’Connell, President & Chief Operating Officer at MassBio; Kenn Turner, President and CEO at Mass Life Sciences Center; and Brian Johnson, President at MassMedic. All four selected startup companies,Kinarm（加拿大），Assistive Technology Development Inc.(United States),Eureka Robotics（新加坡），Bionomous（瑞士）反过来，将促进其公司以及其产品和服务产品。他们还将在活动的博览会上展示自己的技术。
In October 2021, MassRobotics, Festo, and other key players in healthcare robotics, launched a Startup Catalyst Program to advance healthcare robotics companies around the world, by providing the networking opportunities, guidance, and resources they need to grow and succeed. The aim of the program was to connect healthcare robotics startups with customers, investors, suppliers, marketing, and overall support. The program focused on startups in the areas of clinical care, public safety, laboratory, supply chain automation, out-of-hospital care, quality of life, as well as continuity of work and education, and training and support for healthcare professionals.
More than 30 companies applied from all over the world, and the selection committee invited four to join in the program. The participating startups completed impressive milestones:
- Eureka Robotics开发和商业化最先进的机器人技术和人工智能（AI）技术，以使高临界性，高启发性任务自动化。尤里卡（Eureka）目前正在通过计划导师提供的联系来完成日本的筹款回合。尤里卡（Eureka）被介绍给Massrobotics合作伙伴三菱电气公司（Mitsubishi Electric），并与三菱作为白金合作伙伴签署了全球合作伙伴关系。该计划帮助该公司的领导层探索了手术镜头制造技术中有吸引力的应用，这是其关注传统制造业的扩展。
- Bionomous提供了scre实验室设备自动化ening, sorting, and pipetting of miniature biological entities for more ethical and faster research in life science. CEO Frank Bonnet reports that with the aid of the Catalyst Program,Bionomouswas able to run a pilot program in the US, leading to the company’s first sales outside Europe. This convinced Bionomous to expand into the US market and set up offices in the MassRobotics space in Boston. Bonnet emphasized the importance of the program’s mentors, who connected them to key industry leaders to open possibilities for future partnerships.
- Assistive Technology Development Inc.is一家美国初创公司，致力于以低成本运行的家庭物理疗法解决方案，并且始终可供农村患者以及需要更近距离监测以进行康复的患者。该公司以三个目标加入该计划：1）在临床环境中开始首次进行试点研究；2）将驱动装置尺寸缩小到可穿戴状态，3）筹集资金。首席执行官托德·罗伯茨（Todd Roberts）报告说，在该计划的帮助下，该公司完成了前两个里程碑，并在第三局取得了进步。它将在4月25日在总部位于科罗拉多州Aurora的非营利性医疗保健系统UCHealth进行一项试点研究的第一阶段研究，允许该公司在医疗保健会议的Keynote活动中提出初步结果。该研究将评估早期临床功效，并收集患者和临床医生的反馈。辅助的驱动装置的尺寸已缩小70％，从一个大型的壁式台式系统到可穿戴的电池供电系统，该系统将使公司能够完成飞行员。最后，辅助是在筹集资金的过程中，并开始对两家公司进行勤奋。
- Kinarm使用机器人臂提供客观评估方法，以识别，测量和跟踪因受伤或疾病而导致的认知运动或感觉障碍。Kinarm与来自机器人生态系统的指导导师合作，他们向以“令人jaw目结舌的，您可以做的？”做出回应的行业领导者提供了介绍。感叹号，首席执行官Anne Vivian-Scott报道。Vivian-Scott还被介绍给经验丰富的医疗机器人技术领导者，他们将随着公司扩展其解决方案的协作协作。Vivian-Scott补充说：“我们获得的不是可以编码到我们的产品的特定知识，而是方向。坦率地说，大多数其他计划在参与者的业务/机会中没有“足够归属”，以提供此类反馈。”
“我感谢Festo的开创性工作，以支持我们在像Healthcare这样的人类护理领域中寻找全球破坏应用和初创公司的努力，包括生命科学，生物技术和医疗设备，” Massrobotics的Fady Saad说。
“I am impressed with the quality of applications we received, and the unique structure of the program that allowed us to select such innovative companies and match them with world-class advisors,” said Festo’s Alfons Riek. “Certainly, we are excited about the networking opportunities opened to these companies and to presenting them to the world as great examples of the power of utilizing robotics in healthcare.”
MassRobotics, Festo, and additional corporations plan to launch the second version of the program by July 2022 to build on the programs’ amazing momentum and impact.
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