Can you even imagine a world where a robot injects your patient for you? It sounds surreal, doesn’t it… even impossible. But according to French aesthetic practitioner Dr Emmanuel Elard, founder and CEO of technology company NextMotion, the concept isn’t far from reality. He has pioneered technology that he says can and will have the capability to inject your patients with botulinum toxin and dermal filler for you, potentially changing the injectable landscape as we know it. It’s called Light Enabled Neuro-robotic Arm (LENA),1 and here we speak to Dr Elard about the evolution of this robot-assisted injection technology and when it might come to market.
Robot-assisted surgery is already being used in other areas of medicine such as ophthalmology,2 with study findings indicating advantages of robotics over manual procedures during retinal surgery.3 According to Dr Elard, much like the…
