Becker's Healthcare August 22, 2025
Spine robots have made significant advancements, and in recent months three hospitals began offering the technology for pediatric patients.
In June, Ascension’s Dell Children’s Medical Center North Campus in Austin, Texas, became the first pediatric hospital in the world to perform spine surgeries with robotic assistance. The technology assists surgeons in complex spinal deformity cases.
That same month Nemours Children’s Hospital in Wilmington, Del. added the Velys robot for spine surgery. And in August Ryan Farmer, MD and Lawrence Haber, MD, of New Orleans-based Ochsner Children’s Hospital, performed the state’s first robot-assisted pediatric spine surgery using an ExcelsiusGPS...
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