The Robotic Knee Illusion: Why Surgical Precision Needs a Better Target

Advanced AI reveals the optimal sagittal component positions for total knee arthroplasty.

Patient dissatisfaction after total knee arthroplasty (TKA) lingers at approximately 20%. In an effort to solve this, technology related to robotic-assisted TKA is being rapidly promoted and adopted to reduce dissatisfaction rates because of its high reproducibility by minimizing outliers related to bone cuts.

But there is a catch. Although robotic-assisted TKA may help improve the precision of implant placement, there is currently no standardized approach for component alignment to allow precise and accurate TKA component placement.