A Silicon Valley firm that makes life-saving expertise bought a uncommon probability to indicate off to one of many folks it helped save on Tuesday.
The corporate known as Intuitive Surgical and is predicated in Sunnyvale. As of this yr, it has been round for 30 years.
Tuesday was a really cool day on the firm’s headquarters as Dan Larsen flew down from Seattle to fulfill with firm executives and get a demo of the robotic machines that first detected after which eliminated his lung most cancers tumor.
There are greater than 10,000 of the corporate’s “Da Vinci” robotic surgical procedure machines in use all through the world. However medical doctors and sufferers advised NBC Bay Space that there is a component of belief it’s worthwhile to have to make use of one.
“And so they have belief of their talents and the machine. I had no drawback. I stated ‘signal me up!’ ‘Innovative expertise? Signal me up!'” Larsen stated.
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