Forbes June 24, 2025
Amy Feldman

Millions of people get cataract surgery every year. Startup ForSight, backed with $125 million in fresh funding, is betting a robot can do it better than humans.

Cataract surgery is one of the world’s most common medical procedures, with more than 4 million of them done each year in the United States alone, but there simply aren’t enough doctors available to meet the demand for everyone who needs the surgery. Enter robotics. An Israeli startup is betting that robots can ultimately do the procedure better and cheaper than human doctors.

ForSight Robotics on Tuesday said it had raised $125 million led by Eclipse Ventures to expand its robotic platform, called Oryom, which it says is the world’s first for cataracts...

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