Find XO: The Future of AI Surgical Robots: Founder's Vision and Challenges (venturesquare.net)

- Losota has secured 1.5 billion KRW in seed funding to develop AI surgical robots. - This amount is small for surgical robots to cross the initial clinical trial threshold, so funds at this stage tend to be used to secure partner hospitals and withstand certification processes rather than algorithms. - If competing head-on with hardware on the stage set by Intuitive Surgical and Medtronic, seed funding will run out quickly. - The key to the next round is more likely to be a hospital's signature than a technology demo.