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Robot model

Cirq

Brainlab, founded in 1989 in Munich by Stefan Vilsmeier, is a large navigation- and software-first medical-technology company, and its Cirq is the genuine robotic arm in its portfolio: a lightweight, roughly ten-kilogram arm that mounts on the operating-room bed rail and aligns instruments along pre-planned trajectories for drilling and spinal-screw placement, derived from Brainlab's 2019 acquisition of Medineering, with a variant for functional neurosurgery. It is FDA 510(k)-cleared for spine, cleared as the Cirq Robotic Alignment Module alongside the Loop-X mobile imaging robot around 2021, and is CE-marked. The registry deliberately scopes this entity to the Cirq arm rather than Brainlab's broader navigation and software catalog, since Brainlab is navigation-software-first and most of its products fall outside a surgical-robot cohort, with Brainlab recorded as the parent maker and Cirq as the deployable robot; this is the follow-on deferred from the surgical foundational ingest. On the autonomy spectrum Cirq is a passive trajectory-alignment robot that positions and holds instruments along a planned path while the surgeon executes, the lowest-autonomy class in the surgical cohort, in contrast to Brain Navi's NaoTrac with autonomous registration and Moon Surgical's Maestro with its shipped ScoPilot AI. The exact Cirq spine 510(k) date and clearance number are not pinned in this pass beyond approximately 2021, the installed-base count is not verified, and Brainlab's frequently cited revenue figure is a stale 2016 number that is not asserted.

Cirq is a surgical robot built by Brainlab.

Machine-readable surfaces

Form factor
surgical
Maturity stage
commercial
Lifecycle
active
Deployments
0
ID
022a33b5-8a9b-4137-8c7e-05058ad80841

Specs

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specs
Cirq: a lightweight (~10 kg) robotic arm that mounts on the OR bed rail and aligns instruments along pre-planned trajectories for drilling / spinal-screw placement; derived from Brainlab's 2019 acquisition of Medineering. A Cirq variant exists for functional neurosurgery. FDA 510(k)-cleared for spine (Cirq Robotic Alignment Module, cleared alongside the Loop-X mobile imaging robot, ~2021); CE-marked.
formFactor
surgical (lightweight rail-mounted robotic alignment arm; passive trajectory alignment for spine/cranial)

Supply chain

No verified supply relationships on file. Supply-chain coverage is being added across the registry; check back as the seed populates this model’s suppliers.

Suppliers appear here when verified with at least two strong sources (maker-official / IR / regulatory / standards-body / verified tier-2). Sources are append-only; corrections add new sources rather than rewrite history.

Sources (4)

  1. https://www.brainlab.com/surgery-products/overview-platform-products/cirq-robotic-alignment/
  2. https://www.orthoworld.com/brainlab-cirq-robotics-gains-fda-clearance-for-spine/
  3. https://www.biospace.com/brainlab-loop-x-and-cirq-robotic-alignment-module-for-spine-receive-fda-clearance
  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brainlab

Common questions

What is Cirq?
Brainlab, founded in 1989 in Munich by Stefan Vilsmeier, is a large navigation- and software-first medical-technology company, and its Cirq is the genuine robotic arm in its portfolio: a lightweight, roughly ten-kilogram arm that mounts on the operating-room bed rail and aligns instruments along pre-planned trajectories for drilling and spinal-screw placement, derived from Brainlab's 2019 acquisition of Medineering, with a variant for functional neurosurgery. It is FDA 510(k)-cleared for spine, cleared as the Cirq Robotic Alignment Module alongside the Loop-X mobile imaging robot around 2021, and is CE-marked. The registry deliberately scopes this entity to the Cirq arm rather than Brainlab's broader navigation and software catalog, since Brainlab is navigation-software-first and most of its products fall outside a surgical-robot cohort, with Brainlab recorded as the parent maker and Cirq as the deployable robot; this is the follow-on deferred from the surgical foundational ingest. On the autonomy spectrum Cirq is a passive trajectory-alignment robot that positions and holds instruments along a planned path while the surgeon executes, the lowest-autonomy class in the surgical cohort, in contrast to Brain Navi's NaoTrac with autonomous registration and Moon Surgical's Maestro with its shipped ScoPilot AI. The exact Cirq spine 510(k) date and clearance number are not pinned in this pass beyond approximately 2021, the installed-base count is not verified, and Brainlab's frequently cited revenue figure is a stale 2016 number that is not asserted.
Who makes Cirq?
Cirq is made by Brainlab, based in Munich, Germany, founded in 1989.
Where is Cirq deployed?
No verified deployments of Cirq are currently on the DEPLOY registry. DEPLOY records deployments only when verified at a named site with a primary source; absence may reflect pre-deployment, research, or manufacturer-internal use.
What is Cirq's maturity stage?
Cirq is at the commercial stage on the DEPLOY maturity ladder (research, prototype, pilot, commercial, production). Commercial stage means production-grade deployments are operating at named customer sites.