An innovative startup
committed to transform
the standard of care
OUR STORY
Robiopsy started its activities in 2022 and was founded by a group of researchers from the University of Verona leaded by prof. Paolo Fiorini.
In the previous years, the team of the robotic laboratory has been developing new technologies for medical and surgical robots that enable autonomy in robot-assisted medical tasks, in the context of the ERC-ADG project ARS (Grant agreement no: 742671), leading to a first successful demonstration, and to the ERC-PoC project PROST (Grant agreement no: 875523 from 01/12/2019 to 31/05/2021).
PROST addressed diagnostic errors in transperineal prostate biopsy by ensuring high and consistent level of quality in biopsy planning and execution. The company Needleye Robotics was launched with the purpose of transforming the first prototype into a system that can successfully undergo the medical device certification process and achieve the CE mark.
PROST robot
The first prototype of a biopsy system developed in Verona
AKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The company was founded by a group of researchers from the University of Verona, leaded by Professor Paolo Fiorini and with an experience in the field of medical robotics of more than 15 years.
Needleye is partner of the ROBIOPSY project that was funded by the European Innovation Council (EIC) and SMEs Executive Agency from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement N° 101112739. Read more
TEAM
A multidisciplinary team of experts.
TEAM
A multidisciplinary team of experts.
PAOLO FIORINI
CEO and Founder
Received the Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. From 1985 to 2000, he was with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, where he worked on telerobotic and teleoperated systems for space exploration. From 2000 to 2023, he was Professor of control systems and Robotics with the School of Science, University of Verona, Verona, Italy, where he founded the ALTAIR Robotics Laboratory.
RICCARDO MURADORE
CTO and Founder
He is Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering for Innovation Medicine of the University of Verona. He received the the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering in 2003 from the University of Padova (Italy). In 2008 he joined the ALTAIR robotics laboratory, University of Verona (Italy). He was the coordinator of the Horizon 2020 project SARAS (Smart Autonomous Robotic Assistant Surgeon, https://saras-project.eu/) and he is the local coordinator for UNIVR of the Horizon Europe GEYEDANCE and ROBIOPSY projects. His research interests include control and system theory, teleoperation, robotics, surgical robotics, predictive maintenance, networked control systems and adaptive optics.
RICCARDO MURADORE
CTO and Founder
He is Associate Professor at the Department of Engineering for Innovation Medicine of the University of Verona. He received the the Ph.D. degree in Electronic and Information Engineering in 2003 from the University of Padova (Italy). In 2008 he joined the ALTAIR robotics laboratory, University of Verona (Italy). He was the coordinator of the Horizon 2020 project SARAS (Smart Autonomous Robotic Assistant Surgeon, https://saras-project.eu/) and he is the local coordinator for UNIVR of the Horizon Europe GEYEDANCE and ROBIOPSY projects. His research interests include control and system theory, teleoperation, robotics, surgical robotics, predictive maintenance, networked control systems and adaptive optics.
BOGDAN MARIS
Founder / Imaging and AI
He reveived a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Verona. From 2008 to 2023 he was Research Associate and Research Assistant at the ALTAIR Robotics Laboratory. His research interests include but are not limited to medical image processing, artificial intelligence for medical robotics procedures, minimally invasive procedures.
MICHELA DE PICCOLI
Founder / Regulatory and
Certification
GIOVANNI MERUZZI
Founder /
Legal Conselor
CHIARA TENGA
User interface
MEDICAL ADVISORY BOARD
PROKAR DASGUPTA
He is the leading urologist of King’s College in London (UK) who will be consulting with the project.
SALVATORE MICALI
He is the leading urologist of the University of Modena-Reggio (Italy) and has carried out the cadaver tests demonstrating the accuracy of the biopsy approach.
