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$30Million in VC Money Goes to Robot Medical Company

Image Hansen Medical just raised $30 million dollars in its third round of funding. Vanguard Ventures lead the funding. The company has raised about $58 million so far. According to their website, Hansen Medical:

 

… marries robotic technology with computed movement and is designed to enable precise catheter navigation in a variety of interventional procedures.


Which roughly translates into, "robots which precisely place catheters into the heart. The machine,

… is designed to respond instinctively to physicians’ commands entered into a workstation, allowing doctors to place ablation catheters in hard-to-reach anatomical locations within the heart.
   



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