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AAOS 2025: Stryker Touts Next Generation of Mako SmartRobotics

The company introduced the Mako Total Hip with Advanced Primary and Revision building on its Mako Total Hip offering.

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By: Sam Brusco

Associate Editor

Photo: Stryker.

Stryker is showcasing the latest advancements in its Mako SmartRobotics across hip, knee, spine, and shoulder procedures at this year’s American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) annual meeting.

The company introduced the Mako Total Hip with Advanced Primary and Revision building on its Mako Total Hip offering to include a first-to-market robotic hip revision capability. The applications was engineered to streamline workflow and enable confidence in challenging total hip procedures with new features like augment and screw planning, intraoperative screw trajectory guidance and compatibility with Stryker’s revision hip implant portfolio.

The new capabilities help surgeons simplify hip procedures by knowing more with Mako’s 3D CT-based planning, now covering both primary and revision total hip arthroplasty (THA) procedures.

Mako 4, Stryker’s fourth-generation Mako system, is now commercially available as well. The single robotics system was designed for premium clinical and operational experiences compared to manual across Mako total hip, total knee, partial knee, and spine. Mako 4 also integrates the company’s fourth-generation Q guidance system.

Mako Spine and Mako Shoulder are the latest to join the SmartRobotics suite of applications. Stryker completed its first Mako Spine cases in October and continues its limited market release with full U.S. commercial launch expected in the second half of 2025. Stryker also completed Mako Shoulder’s first cases at the end of last year, and the application remains in limited market release through 2025.

“Today’s advancements in Mako SmartRobotics build on a foundation of clinical impact, innovation and market leadership,” said Keith Evans, VP and general manager of Stryker’s Mako and Enabling Technologies business. “We are thrilled to showcase and demonstrate the future of Mako, not only what it can do but who it serves—more surgeons, more patients, across more specialties and more procedures.”

Stryker’s both at the AAOS 2025 annual meeting is #2529.

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