Johnson & Johnson and Verily form Verb Surgical
Johnson & Johnson and Verily formed Verb Surgical as an independent company to develop a connected robotic and digital surgery platform.
Verified eventVerb SurgicalDec 10, 2015
Evidence notes
- Johnson & Johnson announced Verb Surgical's formation on December 10, 2015, following an earlier Ethicon-Google Life Sciences collaboration.
- Ethicon and Verily contributed intellectual property, in-process research assets and operating expertise to the new company.
- Verb's planned platform combined robotics, surgical instrumentation, visualization, machine learning, analytics and connectivity.