Hansen Medical just
raised $30 million dollars in its third round of funding.
Vanguard Ventures lead the funding. The company has raised about $58 million so far. According to their website, Hansen Medical:
... marries robotic technology with computed movement and is designed to
enable precise catheter navigation in a variety of interventional
procedures.
Which roughly translates into, "robots which precisely place
catheters into the heart. The machine,
... is designed to respond instinctively to
physicians' commands entered into a workstation, allowing doctors to
place ablation catheters in hard-to-reach anatomical locations within
the heart.