RoboScore
50.9
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Innovative orthopaedics and medtech for knee replacement surgery
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FUNDING ROUNDS AND CUSTOMERS BY ROBOT
VELYS™ Robotic-Assisted Solution is a robotic knee-surgery platform made by Johnson & Johnson MedTech’s DePuy Synthes subsidiary. It is an imageless, bed-mounted system for total knee arthroplasty, designed to work with the ATTUNE Total Knee System and later expanded to unicompartmental knee arthroplasty. Johnson & Johnson is headquartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and operates globally through its medtech businesses.
Active products
1
Company facts
- HQ
- New Brunswick, United States
- Founded
- 1886 · 140 yrs
- Website
- www.jnj.com
Active robots by DePuy Synthes
1 shown| # | Category | Key specs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VELYS™ Robotic-Assisted Solution | Surgical / Medical | Moving joints 3 | 2021 | 56.4 |
Safety reports
FDA
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Press coverage
Milestones
Johnson & Johnson MedTech announced FDA clearance to expand VELYS Robotic-Assisted Solution for unicompartmental knee arthroplasty procedures.
DePuy Synthes received 510(k) FDA clearance for VELYS Robotic-Assisted Solution for use with the ATTUNE Total Knee System.
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