AiM Medical Robotics has announced a collaboration agreement with Siemens Healthineers for the implementation of an interface enabling AiM’s robotic platform to operate with magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) systems from Siemens Healthineers. The interface supports the integration of AiM’s compact, MRI-compatible robotic stereotactic neurosurgery system and associated workflow with Siemens Healthineers’ market-leading Magnetom MRI scanners, as stated in a press release.
This interface-based integration represents “an important step” toward coordinated robot-MRI operation and provides a foundation for future collaboration opportunities, the release adds. AiM also notes that, building on this technical compatibility, it sees the potential to further explore deeper levels of integration aimed at advancing precision and efficiency in image-guided neurosurgical interventions.
AiM has developed a unique, MRI-compatible robotics platform with an initial product intended to enable precision MRI-guided neurosurgery for rapidly and accurately placing neurostimulator leads; performing tumour and epilepsy ablation, as well as biopsies; and delivering therapeutics.
Under this new agreement, AiM’s system will connect with the MRI scanners of Siemens Healthineers—ranging from 1.5T and 3T to 0.55T MRI systems, including the recently launched Magnetom Free.XL—and, as such, “promises to substantially boost the accessibility of MRI-guided interventions”. This software interface enables data exchange and collaborative functionality between the robotic platform and MRI systems, which is described by AiM as a “key enabler” of real-time, in-bore neurosurgical precision, thus elevating image-guided therapies to new clinical and workflow standards.
“The opportunity to collaborate with a global technology leader like Siemens Healthineers further validates AiM’s technology and expands the ecosystem needed to bring next-generation precision robotics to image-guided operating suites worldwide,” said Gregory Fischer, founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of AiM. “This collaboration accelerates our roadmap toward clinical deployment and reinforces AiM’s mission to make MRI-guided neurosurgery faster, safer, and more accessible.”
Siemens Healthineers has expressed continued interest in exploring broader software synchronisation and compatibility developments with AiM’s technology through its third-party collaboration framework, the release also states.
