Robotic Knee
Replacement
Robotic arms help surgeons prepare the bone with sub-millimeter
accuracy and place the implant with spot-on precision.
Dan O'Connor
Editor-in-Chief
• ROBODOC Cedric Ortiguera, MD, performs robotic knee replace-
ment surgery at the Mayo Clinic campus in Jacksonville, Fla.
Mayo
Clinic
T
he difference between a so-so and a
spectacular knee replacement is often the
slimmest of margins — 1 mm of shaved
bone or 1 degree of implant placement —
a bridge that a robotic arm can gap better
than a surgeon's hands.
"We're good at putting the implant in
and making it look good on
an X-ray, but it
