Meituan enters the medical surgical robot

Recently, Connaught, an innovative surgical robot company, completed a round B financing of 500 million yuan.

Why "Connaughton" was favored by Meituan

Connaught, which was "fancy" by Meituan this time, is a robotics research and development company focusing on surgery, rehabilitation and clinical treatment.

The founder, Ou Guowei, is a Ph.

At present, Connaught Stern has established R&D centers in Shenzhen, China, Hong Kong, and the United States, and formed a professional team of hundreds of people.

Connaught's current round of financing is mainly used for surgical robot product research and development, clinical trials, market promotion, new product layout and industry-leading technology platform construction

Many manufacturers compete in the surgical robot market

Medical surgical robots overcome the problems of poor accuracy of traditional surgical operations, long operation time, doctor fatigue and lack of three-dimensional precision vision, which brings better clinical outcomes to patients and greatly shortens the doctor’s learning curve for complex operations.

On November 2, MicroPort Medical Robot was successfully listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange.

In terms of products, in 2016, Tianjihang’s orthopedic surgical robot "Danji 1.

On October 27, Shandong Weigao’s “laparoscopic endoscopic surgery equipment” was approved by the State Food and Drug Administration, becoming the first approved endoscopic surgery robot in China

Minimally Invasive Medical Robots has currently launched three flagship products-Tumai endoscopic surgical robot, dragonfly eye three-dimensional electronic abdominal endoscopy, and Honghu orthopedic surgical robot.

In addition, more emerging companies in the domestic surgical robot field, including the Lancet Robot and Huazhi MicroPort, have received financial support

Summary of current domestic medical robot investment and financing events

However, at present, the domestic surgical robot market is mainly occupied by Da Vinci surgical robots

On the other hand, the Da Vinci surgical robot is also actively strengthening the localization of the layout to promote cost reduction.

Medical insurance payment guides the surgical robot market

In April this year, the Shanghai Medical Insurance Bureau included 28 new items in the payment scope of Shanghai’s basic medical insurance.

On October 23, the Beijing Medical Insurance Bureau issued the "Notice on Standardizing and Adjusting the Price of Physical Therapy and Other Medical Services", in which robot-assisted orthopedic surgery was included in the Beijing Class A medical insurance payment list, and patients can receive 100% full reimbursement

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