Superhuman Surgery with Moon Surgical and Maestro - Ep. 272

Hello, and welcome to the NVIDIA AI podcast. I'm your host, Noah Kravitz. The theme that AI should and does augment our human capabilities, give us superpowers, if you will, has been central to the podcast for some time now. People as conductors of AI tools, be they on screen tools or tools manifested in the physical world, is a metaphor that's been used more than a few times around here. Today, we're gonna dive into that idea quite literally with Moon Surgical and Maestro. I'm gonna let our guests talk about it, but it's an amazing surgical robotics technology that's more than that. It's a platform. It's a reimagining of minimally invasive surgery in the modern world. Anne Ostroah is CEO of Moon Surgical. She's here with us to talk about the company, how it got started, her own background, in medicine, and and kind of what led us to the point where, Anne and her teams at Moon are really rethinking and making real a new approach to surgery. So Anne, thank you so much for joining the podcast and welcome. Thanks, Noah. Thanks for the invitation. So I'd just love to turn it over to you to tell us about Moon, how the company got started, and the vision to humanize robotic surgery. Yeah. With pleasure. So, you know, Moon got started really in a way many years ago. Right? The company really got going in 2020 or at the 2020. But, it was based on work, that had been really pioneered by this surgeon, professor Gaillier, and a robotics lab based in Paris at Sorbonne University, where they had been looking at this concept of really augmenting the surgeon, but leveraging, you know, the surgeon and what their capacities are today. Right? And really turning them into super surgeons essentially, for years. Right? They they had experience, of course, from other robotic platforms and surgical approaches, but had this frustration or concept that, hey, you know, it's it's great to be completely changing the way surgery is done, but wouldn't it be greater or easier to implement if you could essentially just turn the surgeon into this a lot more powerful surgeon Right. And leverage, you know, the the standard of care that has been developed in surgery over many decades. And and if you did that, wouldn't it essentially broaden access? Right? Because it would be easier to teach, easier to learn, easier to deploy. And so they they had this goal in mind and had been toying with technologies and approaches to really, you know, get it to life and and had a demonstrator in the lab, which is what I saw in early twenty twenty that got me to think about, okay, how how do we apply this in an operating room? What are the current pinpoints that, you know, hospitals are facing in terms of staff shortages, in terms of just, you know, not only keeping and increasing efficiencies within the operating …