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29 cutting-edge medtech innovations recognized with Edison Awards

More than two dozen medical technology developers are winners of the 2023 Edison Awards.

The 29 medtech winners include products from Boston Scientific, Shockwave Medical, Thermo Fisher, DermaSensor and Endiatx. They span four categories: engineering and robotics; health, medical and biotech; manufacturing and logistics; and personal technology and gadgets. Subcategories include smart wearables, noninvasive medtech, advanced drug delivery, AI-assisted medicine, operating room integration and more.

The winners are all finalists for gold, silver and bronze awards. Those awards will be revealed at the Edison Awards Gala on April 20, 2023, in Fort Myers, Florida.

Endiatx co-founder and CEO Torrey Smith with PillBot [Photo by Hardy Wilson for MDO]

Special honors went to Endiatx, which stands by itself as a “game changer” among the approximately 150 Edison Awards winners. Medical Design &…

Mayo Clinic takes a stake in PillBot developer Endiatx

Endiatx co-founder and CEO Torrey Smith with PillBot [Photo by Hardy Wilson for MDO]Mayo Clinic and Endiatx have signed a know-how license agreement covering the ongoing development of Endiatx’s PillBot.

The deal gives Mayo Clinic an equity stake in the robotic stomach camera startup, Endiatx co-founder and CEO Torrey Smith told MassDevice. He declined to share the precise size of the single-digit percentage equity stake or other financial terms, but said no cash was changing hands.

Dr. Vivek Kumbhari [Photo courtesy of Dr. Kumbhari]The agreement formalizes Hayward, California-based Endiatx’s collaboration with Rochester, Minnesota-based Mayo Clinic. Dr. Vivek Kumbhari, the chair of gastroenterology and hepatology at Mayo Clinic–Florida, joined the Endiatx board in 2021.

The agreement is set to remain in place for a few years, which Smith said he hoped would be enough time to get a fully developed PillBot through a clinical trial and onto the marke…

How Mayo Clinic will accelerate Endiatx’s PillBot development

Endiatx co-founder and CEO Torrey Smith with PillBot [Photo by Hardy Wilson for MDO]

After months of negotiations, Endiatx and Mayo Clinic have reached a deal that will accelerate the development of Endiatx’s PillBot robotic stomach camera.

The know-how licensing agreement gives Mayo Clinic a small but significant equity stake in the medical device startup, Endiatx co-founder and CEO Torrey Smith told Medical Design & Outsourcing.

“We were proud to give some equity to Mayo Clinic, and it means that we can co-develop this technology,” Smith said in an interview. “We’re not having them develop intellectual property, but what we are doing is having them coach us clinically. Basically, this is a chance to make sure that the tech that we are developing is exactly what gastroenterologists actually need.”

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This CEO is swallowing his own devices to fund his swimming PillBot

Endiatx co-founder and CEO Torrey Smith with PillBot in his Oakland, California, workshop [Photo by Hardy Wilson for MDO]As he prepared to swallow his robot for the first time, Torrey Smith’s doctors warned that the battery was his greatest threat.

If the capsule came apart and the battery burned the tissue lining his stomach, it would only be the beginning of a very bad experience.

“I was just hoping that we would get any kind of a positive signal that we were on the right track,” Smith, co-founder and CEO of Endiatx, said of the June 2020 test. “At that time, our radio bandwidth was so limited. We were pushing 48 pixels square of grayscale, not even color, at just a few frames per second. The worst video quality you could imagine — but it was real.”

The PillBot prototype’s inaugural journey into Smith’s gastrointestinal tract was a success, beaming live footage from his stomach without anesthesia, sedation, recovery time or air pumped into his gut to infl…

Endiatx’s pill-sized robot sees and swims inside the stomach

Endiatx co-founder and CEO Torrey Smith with PillBot [Photo by Hardy Wilson for MDO]

An unconventional CEO and his team take aim at endoscopies with faster, cheaper stomach imaging — and that’s just the start. Welcome to the era of tiny robots inside the body.

As he prepared to swallow his robot for the first time, Torrey Smith’s doctors warned that the battery was his greatest threat.

If the capsule came apart and the battery burned the tissue lining his stomach, it would only be the beginning of a very bad experience.

“I was just hoping that we would get any kind of a positive signal that we were on the right track,” Smith, co-founder and CEO of Endiatx, said of the June 2020 test. “At that time, our radio bandwidth was so limited. We were pushing 48 pixels square of grayscale, not even color, at just a few frames per second. The worst video quality you could imagine —…