Corindus Vascular Robotics
CorPath Guidewire Delivery System
Delivering precision remotely
Corindus, a startup company working in the field of catheter lab robotics, challenged Farm to develop and refine their existing percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) system; used by physicians to robotically control and deliver guidewires and other angioplasty devices to a target lesion deep inside a patient’s vascular system with enhanced precision and safety. The system is comprised of a robotically-driven, single-use cassette, robotic drive base, articulating positioning arm, and operator control console. Farm was tasked with completely redesigning the Corindus system to improve its performance, reliability and manufacturability. The result is the CorPath 200 System.
One of the key benefits of the new system is that the physician no longer needs to wear a cumbersome lead apron to protect them from the X-rays that are used during a procedure to “see” inside the patient. When using the Corpath 200, the physician is able to perform PCI procedures while sitting within a lead-shielded control cockpit. The control console was designed to optimize the footprint inside an already crowded catheter lab, and includes an angled touch-screen, joystick and easy to navigate graphical user interface to minimizes head, neck, and back strain.
Concurrent to the specification and technology development, our team undertook the effort to commercialize the system. Working under Farm’s ISO 13485-certified development controls, we delivered a reliable system architecture; mechanical, software and electronic sub-systems (including a custom, Windows-based single-board computer); single-use cassette design optimized for manufacturability; and fully functioning, pre-clinical prototype devices.
