The new Bitrack System surgical robot is the technology at the service of surgeons, focused on the benefits it brings to specialists and patients.
The Bitrack System surgical robot provides benefits to hospitals, surgeons and patients around the world. All this thanks to the development of proprietary technology applied to precision surgery.
Jaume Amat, CEO and alma mater of Rob Surgical, has been present in all phases of the design process, from conceptualization to the success of the first operations performed on live patients. We chatted with him to see in detail what are the main advantages and benefits that the Bitrack system offers.
What are the most notable advantages of the Bitrack robot?
Rob Surgical was born from intense and deep collaboration with surgeons from the main hospitals in the world. After much research and many surgeries, we realized that the needs of the patient and the surgeon had taken a backseat.
The robot marked the course and timing of the surgery and we believed that it was not the best way to proceed. Thus, we set out to create a system that would put the patient and surgical practice back in the foreground. The Bitrack system is an open platform that enables the concept of hybrid surgery in which the surgeon can easily, quickly and naturally combine the advantages of robotic surgery and all the flexibility of manual laparoscopic surgery.
What are the benefits for surgeons?
The combination of the concept of hybrid surgery with the fact that the Bitrack is an open platform that allows it to be used in combination with a long list of instruments, equipment and conventional consumables, reduces the learning curve of surgeons and facilitates and naturalizes their use.
The system has a very short start-up time. This, added to the idea of an open platform, allows the surgeon not to have to pre-plan the use he will make of the robot before starting the surgery.
The robot is a tool for precision surgery that is available to the surgeon to be used when required, without the need for prior planning. Its use is on demand and it is naturally and quickly incorporated into the surgical procedure.
What are the benefits for patients?
Robotics allows surgeons to work with more precision. A very important fact is that, in manual laparoscopic surgery, precision depends greatly on the experience of the surgeons. Robotics allows clinical results to be unified and equalized and that these do not depend only on a specific surgeon or a specific center.
Thus, the Bitrack system allows us to universalize precision surgery and make it available to many more patients. At a much more concrete level, the Bitrack system incorporates certain design characteristics and certain functionalities that allow minimizing the stresses that other robotic systems cause on the patient’s abdominal wall. The Bitrack system allows free fluctuation of the abdominal cavity caused by the patient’s own breathing. We call this feature Dynamic Fulcrum Point and it is a specific solution for our system.
Thank you very much for your time, Jaume.
The advantages of the Bitrack robot are aimed at its main objective: universalizing precision surgery. In this way, it is intended that more hospitals can access high-precision robotic surgery and benefit their surgeons and patients.
