ARTICLE SUMMARY:
Robotics is hot again. Combining the surgical smarts of Johnson & Johnson with the tech expertise of Google, Verb is creating a new surgical robotics platform. Will Verb create the ultimate robot? Or something else altogether?
The challenge for medical device companies over the past decade or so has been that the twin impulses that drive medtech development—advances in technology and crippling health system cost pressures—too often drive in opposite directions.
