TY - CHAP
T1 - Starting Up a Surgical Robotics Company
T2 - The Case of Kirubotics
AU - Renteria-Bilbao, Arantxa
AU - Mateo, Fernando
AU - Martínez, Leire
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This paper presents the steps followed by the Spanish start-up company Kirubotics, whose aim is to develop and market an innovative concept of surgical robot. It covers the phases of design, development of a functional protype, tests in laboratory, market research, analysis of regulatory requirements and contacts and agreements with future potential providers of components. In parallel, different types of funding sources have been achieved, while others are still being looked for. The process is still open. Preliminary results show that, as important as an innovative idea and a good technical team, it is to have enough economic backup at the right moment of the overall process.
AB - This paper presents the steps followed by the Spanish start-up company Kirubotics, whose aim is to develop and market an innovative concept of surgical robot. It covers the phases of design, development of a functional protype, tests in laboratory, market research, analysis of regulatory requirements and contacts and agreements with future potential providers of components. In parallel, different types of funding sources have been achieved, while others are still being looked for. The process is still open. Preliminary results show that, as important as an innovative idea and a good technical team, it is to have enough economic backup at the right moment of the overall process.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-69547-7_107
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-69547-7_107
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85109516403
T3 - Biosystems and Biorobotics
SP - 665
EP - 669
BT - Biosystems and Biorobotics
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
ER -