# Rony Abovitz: person

Canonical ID: `59835c48-47f9-4a86-a0a9-127809887e13`

Engineer-entrepreneur who founded MAKO Surgical in 2004 and served as its CTO/chief visionary officer, building the RIO robotic-arm orthopedic platform before founding augmented-reality company Magic Leap.

- **Nationality:** American
- **Verification posture:** verified

## Former / Previously (1)

- [Stryker](https://registry.deploy.report/companies/stryker.md) Founder & CTO, MAKO Surgical (acquired by Stryker 2013) (secondary-verified)

## Education (1)

- University of Miami BS Mechanical Engineering; MS Biomedical Engineering

## Sources (2)

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rony_Abovitz
2. https://bme.coe.miami.edu/people/advisory-board/rony-abovitz/index.html


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