Zimmer Biomet Holdings, Inc. and Hospital for Special Surgery announced a first-of-its-kind, three-year agreement to create the HSS/Zimmer Biomet (ZB) Innovation Center for Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Robotic Joint Replacement. Through the collaboration, ZB and HSS aim to develop new decision support tools, powered by data collection and machine learning, to provide data-driven recommendations to surgeons for robotic-assisted joint surgery. The decision support tools, which will be integrated into the ROSA® Knee and ROSA® Hip systems, will further expand the capabilities of ZB's ZBEdge™ suite of smart, digital and robotic technologies designed to deliver transformative data-powered clinical insights with the goal of improving patient outcomes.

Over the course of the collaboration, a team of HSS surgeons and ZB data scientists will work together to develop and test hypotheses that use data-driven insights to address common clinical challenges associated with joint replacement surgery. The goal is to use the validated hypotheses to inform the development of algorithms for the decision support tools.