The company that made surgical expertise travel by screen ran out of money. Its technology found a second life inside a handheld robotics company that is trying to make a difficult first step in care easier to repeat.

After helping turn surgical robotics, intravascular lithotripsy and operating-room telepresence into working markets, Daniel Hawkins has chosen a quieter bottleneck: the MRI scanner itself. His method is consistent - find the constraint, simplify the experience, and build until adoption feels natural.