Hyderabad, June 26 -- A Hyderabad hospital has begun offering robotic-assisted knee and hip replacement surgery at a lower premium than is typically charged for the technology, with over 100 patients having undergone the procedure since the programme became operational in May.

Mythri Hospitals, a 250-bed super-speciality facility with branches in Attapur and Aramgarh, is using the MISSO EDGE Robotic System, designed in South Korea and manufactured in India by Meril Life Sciences, for total knee, partial knee and total hip replacements at its new Attapur branch.

The system uses a pre-operative CT scan to generate a three-dimensional surgical plan specific to each patient's anatomy. A six-axis robotic arm, an optical tracking system and c...