Powering the Future of Robotic and Intelligent Intervention
Fiber optic shape sensing platforms delivering real-time, full-length device awareness for navigation, feedback control, and increasingly autonomous intervention.
What is Shape Sensing?
Fiber optic shape sensing uses embedded sensors to measure the full 3D shape of a flexible surgical device along its entire length in real time.
By sensing the device itself from the inside, it provides continuous awareness of how the device bends, twists, and turns as it moves through space.
Why Shape Sensing Matters
By measuring shape continuously from inside the device, fiber optic shape sensing provides information unavailable through intermittent imaging or external tracking.
This enables:
– Radiation-free, full-length device awareness as instruments bend, twist, and turn
– A continuous device-state data stream supporting guidance, feedback control, and intelligent workflows
The Shape Sensing Platform
The Shape Sensing Company provides an integrated platform of sensors, systems, and software designed to embed full-length shape awareness directly into medical devices.
Sensors
Fiber optic sensors engineered for integration into flexible devices
Systems
High-speed interrogation and processing that deliver low-latency shape data for visualization and feedback control
Software
Interfaces and SDKs designed to integrate into existing medical device platforms
Built for Strategic Partnership
We partner with medical device companies to embed fiber optic shape sensing directly into their products and platforms.
We provide the sensing foundation through sensors, systems, and software, and support device design and integration efforts. Our partners lead clinical workflow definition, regulatory clearance, and commercialization.
Evaluate
Technical evaluation and feasibility
Integrate
Sensor and platform integration with engineering support
Scale
Production supply and long-term partnership
Real-time Device Awareness for Intelligent and Autonomus Intervention
Long, flexible medical devices are used in millions of procedures each year, yet they generate almost no structured data about how procedures are actually performed.
By capturing full-length device shape in real time, fiber optic shape sensing creates a new data layer for minimally invasive procedures. This data enables navigation today, feedback control in robotic systems, and progressively more intelligent and autonomous procedures over time.
Industry Validation
TSSC’s platform and approach have been recognized by leading organizations.
