Johnson and Johnson, Google to Create Surgical Robotics System

Johnson and Johnson says Ethicon, a medical device company in the Johnson & Johnson family of companies, will work with Google to develop a surgical robotics platform.

Robotic-assisted surgery is a type of minimally invasive surgery that uses technology to give surgeons greater control, access and accuracy during the surgical procedure while benefitting patients by minimizing trauma and scarring, enabling accelerated post-surgical healing, Johnson and Johnson said.