The Menlo Park, California-based robotic surgery system developer also appointed Maria Sainz as chair of its board of directors.
The MARS platform is designed to help surgeons perform more high-volume abdominal procedures using fewer incisions and fewer personnel.
Levita won FDA de novo classification for its Levita Magnetic Surgical System in 2015. That handheld device uses a magnet placed outside of a patient’s abdomen to control a magnetic grasper inside the body during surgery, requiring only one incision instead of two.
The device requires someone to hold the external magnet while the surgeon is operating, but the new MARS platform assists with the external magnet and gives the surgeon more control…