Hyundai Surgical Robots
May 22, 2012 | Terry Sharrer
Hyundai Heavy Industries Company (Ulsan, South Korea; unaffiliated with the Hyundai Motor Company) is best known as the world’s largest shipbuilder, but earlier this year, HHI announced it’s strategy to become a leader in making surgical robots. It already makes Robodoc machines under license, but will design new six axis robots for arthroplasty—with the goal of capturing 60% of the world robotics market for joint repair and ligament reconstruction by 2015. This is yet another South Korean challenge to Japanese companies, like Hitachi and Toshiba, in medical technology. MORE
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