Early Focus On Surgical Robotics Gives Stryker A Leg Up (Forbes)
The robots are coming. Don’t be afraid. These machines are changing medicine for the better … one hip and knee replacement at a time.
This exciting technology, which I’ll tell you about in a moment, will only be more life-changing when lightning-fast 5G networks get rolled out to the masses.
Stryker Corp. used to fly under the radar. The Michigan-based company had a good business making orthopedics, medical instruments and supplies. Then managers pushed into robotics. Business took off.
It’s no surprise. Stryker is onto something big. As it always has been. It has a long history of creating revolutionary tools in the healthcare market.
Innovation and vision are in the corporate DNA. As a student at the University of Michigan in 1939, Homer Stryker invented the walking heel, a rubber insert for hard plaster casts. Earlier he developed the Wedge Turning Frame, a special gurney that allowed caregivers to turn patients with serious back injuries.Today In: Money
By the time Stryker was a practicing surgeon in Kalamazoo, he had a research lab in the basement and side business designing tools to make his ...
