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| Description of Business | 1. Description of Business
Stereotaxis designs, manufactures and markets robotic systems, instruments and information systems for the interventional laboratory. Our proprietary robotic technology, Robotic Magnetic Navigation, fundamentally transforms endovascular interventions using precise computer-controlled magnetic fields to directly control the tip of flexible interventional catheters or devices. Direct control of the tip of an interventional device, in contrast to all manual hand-held devices that are controlled from their handle, can improve the precision, stability, reach and safety of these devices during procedures.
Our primary clinical focus has been electrophysiology, specifically cardiac ablation procedures for the treatment of arrhythmias. Cardiac ablation has become a well-accepted therapy for arrhythmias and a multi-billion-dollar medical device market with expectations for substantial long-term growth. We have shared our aspirations and a product strategy to expand the clinical focus of our technology to several additional endovascular indications including coronary, neuro, and peripheral interventions.
There is substantial real-world evidence and clinical literature for Robotic Magnetic Navigation in electrophysiology. Hundreds of electrophysiologists at over one hundred hospitals globally have treated over 150,000 arrhythmia patients with our robotic technology. Clinical use of our technology has been documented in over 500 clinical publications. Robotic Magnetic Navigation is designed to enable physicians to complete more complex interventional procedures with greater success and safety by providing image-guided delivery of catheters through the blood vessels and chambers of the heart to treatment sites. This is achieved using externally applied computer-controlled magnetic fields that govern the motion of the working tip of the catheter, resulting in improved navigation. The more flexible atraumatic design of catheters driven using magnetic fields may reduce the risk of patient harm and other adverse events. Performing the procedure from a control cockpit enables physicians to complete procedures in a safe location protected from x-ray exposure, with greater ergonomics, and improved efficiency. We believe these benefits can be applicable in other endovascular indications where navigation through complex vasculature is often challenging or unsuccessful and generates significant x-ray exposure, and we are investing in research and development in these areas.
Our primary products include the Genesis RMN and the GenesisX RMN Systems, the Synchrony & SynX Solutions, various interventional devices under the Map-iT, MAGiC and EMAGIN brands, and other related devices. Through our strategic relationships with fluoroscopy system manufacturers, providers of catheters and electrophysiology mapping systems, and other parties, we offer our customers x-ray systems and other accessory diagnostic and therapeutic devices.
The Genesis RMN and the GenesisX RMN Systems are designed to enable physicians to complete complex interventional procedures by providing image-guided delivery of catheters through the blood vessels and chambers of the heart to treatment sites. This is achieved using externally applied magnetic fields that govern the motion of the working tip of the catheter, resulting in improved navigation, efficient procedures, and reduced x-ray exposure. The GenesisX RMN System, the latest generation of the Genesis RMN System, is designed to enhance the accessibility of Robotic Magnetic Navigation by reducing the lengthy construction cycle necessary to install prior generation RMN systems.
The Synchrony system is designed to digitize and modernize the interventional catheter lab. Synchrony’s ultra-high-definition display consolidates the viewing and control of all disparate systems in the lab, offering an enhanced procedure experience with custom layouts, streamlined workflows, an intuitive user interface, and a decluttered environment. Synchrony digitizes the video streams with full fidelity and ultra-low latency, offering crystal-clear visualization. Its architecture allows obsolescence protection for labs as new technologies are introduced in the future. Synchrony is made available with SynX, a cloud-based HIPAA and GDPR-compliant app that allows for secure remote connectivity, collaboration, recording, and monitoring of the cath lab. These technologies are sold alongside RMN systems and as stand-alone solutions.
We pursue arrangements with fluoroscopy system manufacturers to provide RMN Systems in a bundled purchase offer for hospitals establishing robotic interventional operating rooms. An integrated x-ray system is critical for customer adoption of RMN Systems, and when offered as a bundled purchase with the RMN System, it may reduce the cost of acquisition, the ongoing cost of ownership, and the complexity of installation of a robotic electrophysiology practice.
We promote our full suite of products necessary for a typical hospital implementation, subject to regulatory approvals or clearances. This implementation requires a hospital to agree to an upfront capital payment and recurring payments. The upfront capital payment typically includes equipment and installation charges. The recurring payments typically include disposable costs for each procedure, equipment service costs beyond the warranty period, and ongoing software updates. In hospitals where our full suite of products has not been implemented, equipment upgrade or expansion can be implemented upon purchasing of the necessary upgrade or expansion.
Not all products have and/or require regulatory clearance in all the markets we serve. Please see below for a description of the regulatory clearance, licensing, and/or approvals we currently have or are pursuing. Approval processes can be lengthy and uncertain, submissions may require revised or additional non-clinical and clinical data, and regulatory applications could be denied.
We have received regulatory clearance, and/or approvals necessary for us to market the following products in the regions noted, and we are in the process of obtaining necessary approvals in other countries.
We are also currently seeking regulatory clearances for the EMAGIN 5F catheter guide designed to robotically navigate tortuous venous and arterial vasculature.
We have strategic relationships with technology leaders and innovators in the global interventional market. Through these strategic relationships we provide compatibility with our robotic magnetic navigation system, integrated x-ray systems, digital imaging and 3D catheter location sensing technology, and compatible disposable interventional devices. The maintenance of these strategic relationships, or the establishment of equivalent alternatives, is critical to our commercialization efforts. There are no guarantees that any existing strategic relationships will continue, and efforts are ongoing to ensure the availability of compatible systems and devices and/or equivalent alternatives. We cannot provide assurance as to the timeline of the ongoing availability of such compatible systems or our ability to obtain equivalent alternatives on competitive terms or at all.
Prior to regulatory clearance of a replacement device, the robotically enabled ablation catheters predominantly used with our RMN Systems were co-developed with Biosense Webster, a wholly owned subsidiary of Johnson and Johnson (the “J&J catheters”). The J&J catheters were solely manufactured and distributed by them and their obligation to supply those catheters ended on December 31, 2025. We do not know their plans for the continuation of the J&J catheters, and we have no guarantees that supply of those catheters will continue into 2026. The replacement device for the J&J catheters, the Stereotaxis MAGiC catheter, a robotically navigated magnetic ablation catheter designed to perform minimally invasive cardiac ablation procedures, obtained the CE marking in Europe during the first quarter of 2025 and U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance in January 2026. Although we are ramping up production of the MAGiC ablation catheter, continued supply of the J&J catheters into 2026 remains of significant importance for many customers of our technology.
On April 14, 2026, the Company entered into an agreement to acquire Robocath, a venture-backed innovator of advanced mechanical robotic technology for interventional cardiology and neurointerventions headquartered in Rouen, France. See Note 12, Subsequent Events, for more details about this proposed acquisition.
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