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Featured in Founded - the trade-off surgeons face every day
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Founded, a Swiss startup media, published a feature on Dexterous Endoscopes and the problem we are solving in the operating room. Surgeons today must choose between flexible instruments that navigate well but lack force, and rigid instruments that are precise but limited in reach. Our variable stiffness endoscope addresses this trade-off directly, transitioning between soft and rigid states on demand with a simple button press, without requiring any new infrastructure in the operating room.
Dexterous Endoscopes won Venture Kick Stage 1 and CHF 10,000 in funding. The support will help validate our business case and advance variable stiffness endoscopes toward clinical adoption.
Dexterous Endoscopes secured an additional CHF 65k Bridge PoC grant and Innovation Booster Robotics support with CHUV Hospital as implementation partner. The funding enables multiple preclinical trials and a pilot study at CHUV to de-risk usability and performance.