Curexo pitches CUVIS-spine to US surgeons at NASS 2026 as Korea's surgical-robot maker pushes into North America

Korean medical-robot maker Curexo is showing its navigation-guided spine surgery robot CUVIS-spine at its own booth at the North American Spine Society annual meeting (NASS 2026) in San Antonio on Oct 14-17, Robot Newspaper (irobotnews) reported on Oct 14, citing the company.

According to the report, the robot guides pedicle-screw trajectories from a surgical plan built on preoperative CT, intraoperative 3D or fluoroscopy images and uses force tracking to show the size and direction of loads on instruments in real time; the outlet said the system holds Korean approval from 2019, CE marking and US FDA clearance and was exported to Brazil and Mexico this year.

Curexo has not posted the NASS appearance on its newsroom, and the FDA status is not confirmed on a primary page seen by MEKAWIRE. MEKAWIRE context: Curexo's own releases this year cover a CUVIS-spine approval from Mexico's COFEPRIS and multi-centre innovative-medical-technology surgeries in Korea, and MEKAWIRE reported on Sept 29 on its knee robot exports to Brazil and Paraguay; North America, where Medtronic and Globus Medical dominate spine robotics, is the market where it has least to show so far.