About Medicaroid
Medicaroid Corporation was established in Kobe city, Hyogo prefecture in 2013 as a joint investment between Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd., and Sysmex Corporation, with one thought of mission, to support a society where everyone including patients, their families, and medical professionals can live peacefully through our medical robots. Since our establishment, we aim to solve needs and challenges in a sophisticated, diversified medical environment through our medical robots, and we have continuously maintained communication with medical professionals.
During this time, with high expectations on medical robots and the progress in minimal invasive treatment to reduce the burden on the patient, we have been working on the development of an endoscopic robot-assisted surgical system since 2015. And after 5 years of development, we are pleased to provide the hinotoriTM surgical robot system. As the robot market in the medical field is expanding in the world, we are receiving high expectations from many for our highly anticipated robot from Japan. We seek to provide a robot-assisted surgical system born in Kobe, not only for Japan but overseas, and we will engage in contributing to global healthcare.
Medicaroid’s goal is to create medical robots that are not intended to replace humans, but to serve and support humans.
We will provide a wide range of products to not only the surgical field but for places in need of robots for testing, diagnosis, and treatment, and we will create innovation that will change people’s lives.
We, at Medicaroid will commit ourselves to contribute to our prosperous society where everyone, including patients, their families, medical professionals can live peacefully through our medical robots.
Medicaroid was founded as a joint venture of Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Sysmex.
In response to the increased needs of minimally-invasive surgery which lessens the patients’ physical burden, the development of a robotic-assisted surgery system was started. Subsequently, a prototype was developed annually based on evaluations conducted by surgeons.
Obtained Japanese regulatory approval for the “hinotoriTM Surgical Robot System.”
Medicaroid Europe GmbH was established in Düsseldorf, Germany.
1st Japanese MIL (Medicaroid Intelligence Laboratory) training center was opened.
Obtained Japanese approval for gynecology and general surgery.
1st European MIL (Medicaroid Intelligence Laboratory) opened at ORSI academy, Belgium.
Completed >4000 hinotoriTM cases in Japan.
Did you know?
The hinotori™ was named after the masterpiece 'Hi no Tori', created by Osamu Tezuka, a manga legend who was also a licensed physician. Inspired by Tezuka’s representation of the great value of life, the hinotori™ was produced as the first made-in-Japan robotic-assisted surgery system with the mission of supporting healthcare professionals who constantly deal with matters of life and death.