ForSight Robotics’ road to performing a fully robotic cataract surgery

Dr. Robert Ang, the study’s principal investigator, performing a post-op patient exam.

| However, there is a shortage of trained surgeons who can tackle these difficult procedures.  ForSight Robotics said robotics and artificial intelligence can ease this burden and make cataract surgeries more accessible. “When I was starting to do ophthalmic surgery, eye surgery, I noticed a few things. It’s very hard to do those procedures. The movements are very delicate,” Dr. Joseph Nathan, ForSight Robotics’ co-founder, president, and chief medical officer, told The Robot Report. “We don’t have enough surgeons. We have this huge gap between the number of surgeons and the surge in patients.” ForSight has created the JASPER Platform, formerly known as ORYOM. The company said JASPER assists surgeons with every step of cataract surgeries. It empowers them with advanced imaging, precision, and motion scaling that reduce surgeon fatigue and variability between procedures. Inside JASPER’s first fully robotic cataract surgery ForSight Robotics said it recently made a significant advancement. In April, JASPER completed a robot-assisted cataract surgery in a human patient. The procedure was performed by Dr. Alexey Rapoport, with Dr. Robert Edward T. Ang of the Asian Eye Institute in Manila serving as principal investigator.