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Versius adopted for urological procedures in Pakistan The Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT) is the first hospital in Pakistan to...

Israel G Vargas “It’s time to get rid of the scars,” says Mark Slack, a gynaecologist and co-founder of robotic surgery startup CMR Surgical. Cambridge-based CMR Surgical was founded in 2014 – Slack remembers how, when the company started, surgeons wanted a robot that was suitable for all surgical disciplines: equivalent in cost to a straight-stick surgery, adaptable to any theatre, modular and quick to set up and take down. “There was nothing like it,” he says. “So what did we do? We had to build our own robot.” The result is the Versius, a surgical robot designed to help sur...