A company that was founded by two alumni who met during their first year at Waterloo Engineering has developed the first autonomous robot to perform intramuscular injections.
Tim Lasswell (BASc ’14, mechanical engineering, MASc ’17, biomedical engineering) and Nima Zamani (BASc ’14, mechanical engineering, MASc ’17, mechatronics engineering) launched Cobionix in 2019 and operate out of Velocity, the flagship startup incubator at the University of Waterloo.
The new technology, dubbed Cobi, is expected to improve patient care in an industry facing labour shortages, and has potential applications in a number of other fields as well.
“We outfitted Cobi to use a needle-free injection technology and to demonstrate that patients could receive intramuscular injections, such as vaccines, without needles and no involvement from a healthcare professional,” Lasswell, CEO of the company, said in a media release.
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