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Paula Tudoran

This $125M Israeli Startup Is Building The World's First Cataract Robot To Solve A Global Crisis: 'There Is No Human Way To Close The Gap'

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ForSight Robotics, an Israeli startup aiming to automate cataract and eye surgery, announced Tuesday that it raised $125 million to expand its precision robotics platform, Oryom.

The round was led by Eclipse Ventures, with participation from surgical robotics legend Fred Moll, co-founder of Intuitive Surgical, and Moshe Shoham, a Technion professor and pioneer behind multiple robotics companies including Mazor, which was acquired by Medtronic for $1.6 billion, Forbes reports.

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