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Medicaroid is a robotics company founded 2013, based in Japan, developing 1 robot primarily in the Surgical / Medical category.
CAPITAL & EVIDENCE
Medicaroid has no confirmed funding round on file and has 3 cited customers but no deployment on record.
Shipped
3customers cited
named in public sources · no deployment on record
- Singapore General Hospital· 2024sysmex.co.jp ↗
- Singapore General Hospital· 2024sysmex-ap.com ↗
- Orsi Academy· 2022orsi-online.com ↗
A deployment is recorded when a public source names both the customer and the robot, or the maker confirms it. Nothing here counts against Medicaroid.
In Surgical / Medical, CMR Surgical, BD Rowa and Catalia Health have deployment evidence on file.
Add a deployment →Japan's first robotic-assisted surgery system enabling precise suturing in confined spaces for urology and adult surgery.
Medicaroid Corporation develops and manufactures the hinotori™ Surgical Robot System, Japan's first domestically designed robotic-assisted surgery platform. The system is primarily used in urology, adult surgery, and gynecology, offering high maneuverability, compactness, and safety. hinotori™ reproduces surgeons' sensitive movements and has demonstrated precision in simulated neonatal cavities as small as 125 mL. Approved by Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare in August 2020, the system is currently approved for use only in Japan. Medicaroid is a joint venture between Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Sysmex Corporation.
Active products
1
RoboIndex
53.51
RoboScore 51.32 + Momentum 2.19
Company facts
- HQ
- Kobe, Japan
- Founded
- 2013 · 13 yrs
- Employees
- 51
- Website
- www.medicaroid.com
RoboScore
51.32 RoboScore + 2.19 Momentum· Adequate evidence
Products 65%, Depth 5%, Evidence 30% set the number, and every rated company has all three. Attention has no weight of its own — it is one of the two things Evidence is built from, and it can only ever add. Activity and Readiness describe the brand but never move it. A value we don't have reads —, never zero. Momentum is independently collected news coverage, worth at most 15 points and never a deduction — a maker we have heard nothing about keeps its full RoboScore. Claiming or paying moves nothing.
6 of 6 factors known. How it's calculated
Milestones
hinotori™ Surgical Robot System received regulatory approval from Japan's Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare, becoming the first robotic-assisted surgery system born in Japan to win approval.
First human surgery with the hinotori™ system was successfully conducted in December 2020.
hinotori™ Surgical Robot System was introduced by Medicaroid Inc. in Kobe, Japan.
Medicaroid Corporation was established in Kobe, Japan as a joint venture between Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Sysmex Corporation.
Press coverage
- A new era of robotic-assisted surgery
Nature
- Evaluation of the hinotori™ Surgical Robot System for accurate suturing in confined neonatal cavities
PMC (PubMed Central)
- hinotori Surgical Robot System, the First Made in Japan to Achieve Regulatory Approval
Kawasaki Magazine
- Robotic urologic applications of the hinotori™ Surgical Robot System
ScienceDirect
- A world's first: Orsi welcomes hinotori™, surgical robot of Medicaroid
ORSI Online
- Sysmex Announces First Case in Malaysia Performed with the hinotori™ Surgical Robot System
Sysmex News
In the news
2 events · 1 running story · last 90 days
+2.19momentumof 15 maxMedicaroid receives CE marking for hinotori surgical robot system
In the news
2 events · 1 running story · last 90 days
Why Medicaroid has been in the news, across 5 outlets — collected and classified independently, so a maker cannot add to it. It never changes a robot's RoboScore — the evidence half of the RoboIndex — and it can move a robot up a board by at most 15 points.
Public loss record
Japanese workplace accidents reach the labour ministry and product incidents reach NITE. We read both, and they are small files.
Active products by Medicaroid
1 shown| # | Category | Key specs | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |  | hinotori™ Surgical Robot System | Surgical / Medical | DOF 8 DOF | 2020 | 54.5 |
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