Josep Amat, co-founder and CSO of Rob Surgical, received the Creu de Sant Jordi 2020 from the Government of Catalonia for his extensive background as a robotics engineer.
Amat is co-inventor of the new Bitrack robot for minimally invasive surgery, and the first entrepreneur from CataloniaBio & HealthTech to receive this recognition.
Currently, he is emeritus professor of architecture and computer science at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), advisor to the Robotics and Vision Group at the Research Centre for Biomedical Engineering-UPC and member of the Institute for Catalan Studies (IEC).
The awards ceremony took place on 21 September at the Palau de la Generalitat in Barcelona.
Photo: President of the Government of Catalonia Quim Torra, Josep Amat and his wife Tecla Riera.
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