7D Surgical

Drs. Beau Standish, Adrian Mariampillai, Michael Leung, and Victor Yang met while earning their graduate degrees in medicine. They each had a drive to start a company that focused on the crossroads of medicine and technology. On June 3, 2009, 7D Surgical was incorporated but the founders had not yet settled on specific innovation. Instead, over the next 1.5 years they investigated numerous different opportunities that included optically-based technology platforms. 7D Surgical was created based off the notion of 7 degrees of freedom. The standard 6 degrees of freedom in engineering relate to a rigid body being able to freely move in a three-dimensional space. Specifically, that the body can move on the X, Y, and Z axes, as well as change orientation between those axes through rotation called pitch, yaw, and roll. The 7th Degree of freedom is the function of time. Incorporating the 7th degree of freedom allows one to fully quantify where a particle is in space at any given time.