On July 29, 2020, the first robotically assisted knee replacement surgery was performed at Rochester Regional Health United Memorial Medical Center (UMMC) with the Rosa Knee System by Zimmer Bionet.
Covid-19 is fueling the growth of image-guided and robotic surgery markets. The global augmented reality and virtual reality (VR) market in healthcare is expected to reach $10.82 B by 2025. In February 2019, Vicarious Surgical landed $10 M from the Gates Frontier with participation from Khosla Ventures, Innovation Endeavors, AME Cloud Ventures and Marc Benioff for their VR surgical robotics.
