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Recently,KouTech("Abbreviation: KouTech")Announcement CompletedHundreds of Millions of Dollars in Series B Financing. This round of financing was jointly participated by industrial capital and well-known investment institutions, with Chunmu Capital serving as the exclusive financial advisor. The funds will be mainly used forConsolidate the technical advantages of core products, improve the ecological series of microrobotic products, accelerate the clinical registration process, and promote the layout of the international market.。

KouTech's core products mainly includeThree Surgical Robots：General-purpose microsurgical robot, ophthalmic surgical robot, and gastrointestinal endoscopic robot.

• General-purpose microsurgical robots can cover multiple surgical fields such as otolaryngology, neurosurgery, vascular surgery, and plastic surgery, assisting existing medical robots in completing procedures that require high precision.

• Ophthalmic surgical robot has completed registration clinical trials and officially entered the critical stage of registration and market launch., which can effectively filter out physiological hand tremors, meeting the operational requirements for high-precision ophthalmic surgery;

• The gastrointestinal endoscopy robot is in the research and development and certification application stage.

The injection of capital will further accelerate its technological innovation and market layout in the field of high-precision ophthalmic surgical robots, laying a solid foundation for the refinement and intelligence of future ophthalmic surgeries.

# KouTech Ophthalmic Surgical Robot

KouTech's ophthalmic surgical robot has the following characteristics:

• High-Precision Operation

Achieve sub-micron level single-step motion accuracy, effectively filtering out physiological hand tremors (approximately 100 micrometers)., meeting the high-precision demands of ocular fundus surgery, such as precise capsulorhexis and lens extraction in cataract surgery, as well as delicate repairs in retinal surgery, significantly reducing the risk of surgical complications.

• Flexible Micro Mechanisms and Control Algorithms

Integrated with high-precision control algorithms and flexible micro mechanisms,Supports full-process jitter-free operation, adaptable to narrow surgical spaces., helping doctors break through physiological limits, shorten the learning curve, and improve the success rate of surgeries.

• 7-DOF Wrist Joint Design

Equipped with a 7 degrees of freedom wrist joint,The diameter of the front-end instrument is less than 3mm, allowing flexible access to tiny spaces within the eye., completing the anastomosis of blood vessels, lymphatics, and nerves below 0.3mm to meet the demands of complex retinal surgery.

• Clinical Validation and Collaboration

Completed Registration Clinical Trial, in cooperation with tertiary medical institutions such as Shanghai Ninth People's Hospital and Ningbo Sixth People's Hospital, to promote the implementation and optimization of technology. Clinical application cases cover various ophthalmic surgery scenarios.

• Technological Independence and Innovation

Independently Developed Underlying Components, Servo Systems, and Consumable Components, breaking the reliance on key technology imports, and forming a complete innovation chain from underlying technology to clinical application.

# Current Market Status of the Product

Although the application of robotic technology in ophthalmic surgery has been relatively lagging due to its precision and complexity, internationally, some robotic systems assisting in ophthalmic surgery have started to show their potential.

For example,Da VinciSurgical robots are capable of performing ocular surface surgeries such as corneal suturing, corneal transplantation, and pterygium excision.Netherlands Preceyes BVThe ophthalmic surgical robot developed by the company has been applied in vitreoretinal surgery.Israel ForSight CompanyKouTech's Oryom microsurgical robotic platform features a 14-degrees-of-freedom movement structure, capable of reaching almost any part of the human eye.

In China, although it started relatively late, the field of ophthalmic surgical robotics is also developing rapidly,Relevant participants include university R&D teams such asSun Yat-sen University, as well asKouTech Medical,Dushi Medical and KouTechInnovative enterprises represented by.

Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center, Sun Yat-sen UniversityProfessor Lin Haotian's team achieved interdisciplinary integration and collaborated on software and hardware development.5G Remote Micron-Level Ophthalmic Surgery Robot". This surgical robot features a unique tandem parallel manipulator structure, enabling remote motion center control and end-effector repeatability with micron-level precision. It can also simulate and replace manual operations, filter out hand tremors, and perform high-precision surgical procedures across spatial and temporal limitations via 5G remote communication technology.

KouTech MedicalIndependently DevelopedOphthalmic Surgical RobotIntegrating advanced robotic mechanisms, precision drive technology, artificial intelligence algorithms, and advanced control technology, achieving full independent research and development from structure to algorithm. Early-stage R&D mainly focused on subretinal and retinal vascular puncture injection, with the Type 2 inspection completed in 2024, providing a new solution for ophthalmic microsurgery related indications.

But it should be noted that, fundamentally,Robots can shorten the process of medical education, but to gain the trust of clinicians and patients, there is still much work to be done in subsequent commercialization.。

In summary, with the continuous advancement of technology and the deepening expansion of applications, the field of ophthalmic surgical robotics will embrace broader development prospects. In the future, we look forward to the emergence of more innovative ophthalmic surgical robot products, providing safer, more efficient, and precise surgical treatment options for ophthalmic patients.

KouTech, founded in 2022, is the world's first innovative enterprise focusing on ultra-micro precision surgical robot platforms, specializing in the research and development of high-precision platform-type surgical robots. Its product line covers general microsurgical robots, ophthalmic surgical robots, and related innovative consumables for multi-departmental robots.The company, in collaboration with R&D centers in the United States and Japan, has independently developed the underlying components, servo systems, transmission mechanisms, and consumable parts of surgical robots, breaking the bottleneck of relying on imported key technologies.