Surgical tool is alternative to robotic surgery

FlexDex, a new device from inventors at the University of Michigan, mounts around a surgeon’s wrist and allows him to manipulate a suturing device at the end of an elongated stick through a small hole in a patient’s abdomen. With the natural movements of a human wrist and hands, it provides full range of motion for laparoscopic, or minimally invasive surgeries, said Jim Geiger, chief medical officer and co-founder of FlexDex Surgical, the company behind the new device.