Channel Robotics company profile
Channel Robotics develops surgical robotics technology from San Diego. Its hand-held robotic surgery work is designed to help surgeons reach further in endoscopic procedures through patented and patent-pending robotic instruments.
Facts
- Segment: Surgical
- Country: United States
- Founded: 2024
- Website: https://www.channelrobotics.com
Profile sections
- Summary
- Market context
- Facts
- Funding
- Investors
- Context / Market Position
- Events
- Team
- Sources
Summary
Channel Robotics develops surgical robotics technology from San Diego. Its hand-held robotic surgery work is designed to help surgeons reach further in endoscopic procedures through patented and patent-pending robotic instruments.
Market context
Represents early-stage capital flowing into next-generation surgical robotics, an area dominated by a small number of incumbents but seeing increasing startup activity. Surgical robotic systems for minimally invasive procedures; endoscopic workflow precision and efficiency; early-stage build toward clinical deployment.
- Capability: Robotic-assisted surgery
- Capability: endoscopic procedure automation
- Capability: precision manipulation in clinical settings
- Capability: minimally invasive workflow optimization
- Strategic position: Positioned in builders (healthcare / development)
- Strategic position: early-stage next-generation surgical robotics
- Strategic position: not yet deployed clinically
Facts
- Website: https://www.channelrobotics.com
- HQ: Baltimore, United States
- Founded: 2024
- Segment: Surgical
- Known funding rounds: 2
Funding
- 2026-06-18 - Seed+ - $3M - Channel Robotics raises $4.6 million for handheld endoscopic robotic platform - source: tmcnet.com
- 2026-01-16 - $2M - Channel Robotics raises $1.61M to develop surgical robotics platform - source: app.fundz.net
Investors
- Old Line Capital Partners - Participant - Vc - 1 funding event - first seen 2026-01-16
Surgical robotics platform for endoscopic workflows
Channel Robotics develops surgical robotic systems for minimally invasive procedures, with emphasis on precision and efficiency in endoscopic workflows.
- Target environment: Subsea inspection, offshore operations, maritime monitoring, ports, ocean sensing and underwater data-collection workflows.
- Deployment model: Medical robotics platform model requiring clinical validation, regulatory approval, hospital adoption and procedural support.
- Customer context: Hospitals, surgeons, surgical robotics teams, medical-device partners and healthcare systems evaluating minimally invasive procedure platforms.
- Workflow context: Endoscopic procedures, minimally invasive surgery, robotic precision, clinical workflow design and surgical platform validation.
- Commercial maturity: Early-stage surgical robotics company building toward clinical deployment. Scaling depends on regulatory clearance, clinical evidence, surgeon workflow fit, safety and hospital purchasing pathways.
- Market position: Early surgical robotics company targeting endoscopic and minimally invasive procedure automation.
- Adoption constraints: Adoption depends on clinical outcomes, regulatory approval, training, procedure economics, safety, support and competition from incumbent surgical robotics systems.
- Adjacent context: ROVs, AUVs, subsea sensing, offshore inspection, maritime autonomy, ocean data and underwater robotics.
- Source confidence: medium
Events
- 2026-06-18 - Funding - Channel Robotics raises $4.6 million for handheld endoscopic robotic platform - The financing brings Channel Robotics to $4.6 million in total capital raised.
- 2026-01-16 - Funding - Channel Robotics raises $1.61M to develop surgical robotics platform - Funding supports development of robotic system for minimally invasive surgical procedures
- 2025-03-31 - Award - Channel Robotics named finalist for UC San Diego Faculty Startup of the Year - UC San Diego listed Channel Robotics and co-founder Philip Weissbrod among the finalists for Faculty Startup of the Yea…
Team
- Michael Yip - Co-founder - Yip is a surgical robotics founder and technical leader for Channel Robotics.
- Philip A. Weissbrod - Co-founder
- Carolena Deutsch-Garcia - Director of Business Development - Deutsch-Garcia leads business-development work for Channel Robotics.
- Ben Arnold - CEO - Arnold is current executive leadership for Channel Robotics.
- Brian Bowman - CTO - Bowman is technical leadership for Channel Robotics.
- Michael Collins - COO - Collins is operations leadership for Channel Robotics.
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