“By simplifying and standardizing a critical layer of healthcare, we can unlock the entire system. That’s the power of physical AI and robotics in the hands of every clinician.”
Mendaera
Every year, 192 million procedures in the U.S. depend on a skill that looks simple — placing a needle precisely in the body under image guidance — but is far from it. These procedures are the gateways to care: a biopsy, a pain management injection, a PICC line placement, and many more. Mastering this essential technique takes years, at a time when the number of specialists who can do it isn’t keeping pace with demand. Today, just 5% of providers perform the vast majority of the volume while the rest of the system waits, resulting in delayed surgeries, transferred patients, and care and revenue walking out the door. It isn’t a clinical footnote — it’s a structural bottleneck at the center of healthcare delivery.
Mendaera builds physical AI that standardizes and scales procedural care. Mendaera FocalistTM System combines handheld robotics, real-time imaging, and intelligence into a single seamless system, designed to bring consistency to a skill that today is either entirely lacking or variable across providers and systems. The result: health systems gain capacity no longer capped by a shrinking pool of specialists, hospitals keep their patients in-house, and most importantly, patients get the high-quality care they need, when they need it.
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