Brian Miller was appointed Sovato's CEO on April 7. (courtesy photo) In 2001, a Santa Barbara-based company, Computer Motion, created the first FDA-approved surgical robot that enabled a surgeon in New York to remove the gallbladder of a patient in Strasbourg, France. The problem back then was that telesurgery was simply too expensive to ever…
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