A surgeon built a black box for the operating room. A decade later, the company is trying to make every procedure teach the next one - while persuading clinicians that a camera can be a coach rather than a cop.
For twenty years, one Las Vegas-founded company has been the second set of eyes in thousands of operating rooms - watching the nerves surgeons can't see and sounding the alarm before a slip becomes a lifelong deficit.
Image Navigation is a US-headquartered, Jerusalem-developed medical device company that builds IGI (Image Guided Implantology), a real-time surgical navigation and robotics system for dental implant surgery. It turns a pre-operative CT scan into a live 3D map of a patient's anatomy, tracks the drill with sub-millimeter accuracy, and adds a robotic autostop that shuts the drill off the instant it strays from the planned path - giving dentists the safety of robotics without a rigid robotic arm.