Robots Are Coming to the Cath Lab

So, Philippe, you founded RoboCath in 2009.

What was the original clinical insight that led you to believe that robotics could fundamentally improve coronary interventions? Can you provide us a little insight there?

Sure.

So I chose radiology as a specialty.

And so I was a resident and then I had to wait for one year for a senior resident position.

And during this year, I worked in a remote hospital.

And here I discovered that we didn't have this.

the same level of caring and of care.

And so it was not exactly the same medicine, the same level of expertise.

And I experienced situation where I saw patient die of lack of expertise.

And it was part of the spark.

The other part was during this year, it was the year of the Lindbergh intervention between New York and Strasbourg in France.

And so there was an intervention, a surgical intervention performed between those cross-border interventions.

And it was in 2001.

So it's a time, a long time ago.

And so, again, it was the 11th.

So when was the attentat? Perhaps we make a pause.

But the attentat, you know, on the Twin Towers, which year was that?

Yeah, that was 2001, yeah.

2001, wow, it's so long ago.

And so this was the spark of the founding of the company.

I had the idea of, well, if we can perform robotics inventions So complex interventions from far away, it would be really great to be able to robotize that endovascular intervention and save lives because there are situation, emergency, vascular emergencies such as a hemorrhage shock or thrombosis, such as myocardial infection or stroke, where you need to perform an emergency endovascular intervention.

And here we go.

So I thought it would be much more interesting in the endovascular field to robotize those interventions.

And again, it was really the spark of the project I led.