Team extension for a next-generation spine surgery robotic system
Achievements of LEM
Surgical robotics is the most talked about subject in surgery today. Improving the quality of life for patients with spinal cord injuries, this new technology holds significant promise but still has limitations and is largely driven by the market.
To overcome these limitations and aid in spinal surgery, a group of talented healthcare and tech experts created the Swiss medical startup LEM Surgical, which soon became a breath of fresh air for surgical robotics. “Current commercially available robotic solutions are limited in utilization and offer relatively small clinical value, hence their low adoption rate,” explains Yossi Bar, CEO and Founder of LEM Surgical. “Our expert team of 20 individuals based in Bern significantly progresses with the development of the ‘Sapien’ system, introducing game-changing capabilities and thereby offering significantly increased clinical utilization.”
Today, LEM enables doctors to perform complicated spinal surgeries with quality robotic technology. The surgical robots used deliver promising results in the most complicated cases and elevate patients’ quality of life. Moreover, LEM Surgical is now securing the necessary approvals to develop and launch its state-of-the-art product, Sapien, which is about to significantly aid in spinal surgery.
For some time already, the LEM team has embraced the idea of collaborating with Ukrainian developers for two reasons: access to one of Europe’s widest talent pools and acceptable hourly rates. They approached Globaldev and tasked our recruitment team with a clearly defined list of candidate requirements.
To help LEM build a DICOM Viewer (software for viewing MRI images during spinal surgery) their in-house team lacked engineers with field-specific experience. In addition to skills in from-scratch project architecture development, candidates had to be familiar with rendering pipeline logic and a specific stack of technologies: C++, Qt, QML, VTK, 3D Math, CMake, Eigen, Catch2, OpenGL, and Python.
Having investigated the local market and after screening potential specialists, we hired and onboarded software engineers with experience in surgical robotics and related areas to close LEM’s expertise gaps. While our HR department was taking an active part in making communication successful at all stages, avoiding cultural gaps, and building trust, our legal team handled legal aspects of the partnership.
Expertise brought to LEM Surgical
