Adam Sachs is CEO of Vicarious Surgical, a surgical robotics company he co-founded in 2014. Sachs leads the development and commercialization of the company’s surgical robots to increase the efficiency of procedures and improve patient outcomes. Prior to founding Vicarious Surgical, Sachs worked at Apple in manufacturing. He holds a Bachelor of Science in mechanical engineering from MIT and has worked for more than 11 years as a volunteer emergency medical technician for MIT EMS, an ambulance serving the MIT community.
The goal is not to enable a robot to perform complex surgeries without human involvement. But using surgical robotics to democratize access to quality care to underserved communities is an outcome that we can achieve and which the world needs.