For common patients, it is hard to imagine complex surgeries being performed by robots, but a company specializing in the development of surgical robots - Beijing Tinavi Medical Technology has made it a reality.

Tinavi is the only medical device registration license company of orthopedic surgery robots that has obtained the certification of the State Food and Drug Administration (CFDA) in China.

It has cooperated with Beijing Jishuitan Hospital and Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics to establish a collaborative innovation model of "production, study, research and clinical application".

After over a decade of researches and experiments, the first orthopedic surgical robots with completely independent intellectual property rights were developed by Tinavi.

The third-generation Tinavi orthopedic surgery robot is performing a simulated surgery. [Photo provided to chinadaily.com.cn]

Orthopedic surgery robots promote the development of minimally invasive surgery

As modernization continues to evolve, orthopedic diseases have become a problem seriously affecting human life.

Traditional orthopedic surgery relies too much on the experience of doctors, and the treatment process usually causes great sufferings for patients. Thus it is necessary to innovate treatment concepts, methods and equipment and improve the therapeutic effect of orthopedic diseases.

However, the minimally invasive concepts and technologies are incomplete, the complex surgical methods are difficult to popularize, and intelligent medical approaches and equipment are extremely scarce.

With the population of China rapidly getting older, the above-mentioned problems become more serious: the number of orthopedic patients is increasing, but medical resources are not balanced.

Minimally invasive treatment has become the development trend of orthopedic clinical treatment, but such surgery has high requirements for medical equipment and doctors' surgical experience and skills. Currently, it is only performed in a few large medical institutions.

Intelligent surgical equipment is one of the core equipment to promote the development and popularization of minimally invasive surgery. As a key research field of frontier technologies, medical robots have condensed the latest achievements of modern science and technology.