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NDR Medical Technology
NDR Medical Technology is a Singapore-based deep-tech company building AI-empowered interventional robotics for minimally invasive, image-guided surgery. Its Automated Needle Targeting (ANT) platform combines hardware and software to plan and align percutaneous needle placement with roughly ±1mm accuracy using a hospital's existing imaging equipment. Its flagship ANT-X robot received U.S. FDA 510(k) clearance in 2023 as the first automated device to aid kidney access for percutaneous nephrolithotomy, while ANT-C brings AI CT-based lesion targeting to procedures across the lung, liver, kidney and spine.
Yunfei Cao
Yunfei 'Richard' Cao is the co-founder and CEO of Angio8 (通甪科技), a Shenzhen-based startup building a next-generation surgical robot for minimally invasive vascular interventional surgery. A Stony Brook biomedical engineer who cut his teeth inside the Boston medical-device machine at Vention Medical, SunMed and China Med Device, Cao now runs a cross-Pacific company - engineering brains in Boston, manufacturing and clinical work in Shenzhen - aimed at letting doctors steer catheters and guidewires by robot instead of by hand.