Medicine and the metaverse: New tech allows doctors to travel inside of your body

Once the stuff of sci-fi, the future of medicine may have doctors flying tiny robots inside our bodies for diagnosis and treatment. AR/VR – VentureBeat & Louis Rosenberg, Unanimous A.I.

Osso VR Raises $27M Series B to Expand Its VR Surgical Training Platform
Osso VR, the creators behind the immersive surgical platform, today announced its secured $27 million in Series B financing. The funding round was led by GSR Ventures, with participation from Signalfire, Kaiser Permanente Ventures, OCA Ventures, Scrum Ventures, Leslie Ventures, and Anorak Ventures. According to Crunchbase, this brings the Silicon Valley-based company’s overall outside funding […]

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Vicarious Surgical Aims to Raise $460M with $1.1B Valuation for VR Surgery Platform
Vicarious Surgical, a robotics-based medical company, today announced that it’s merging with D8 Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company. Vicarious Surgical is slated to go public on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) where it is expected to garner up to $460 million, with an estimated $1.1 billion valuation. Founded in Massachusetts in 2014, Vicarious […]

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