— Robotic-assisted joint replacement
A surgical plan
built for your
anatomy.
Mako SmartRobotics combines a personalized 3D plan from your CT scan with a surgeon-controlled robotic arm that executes that plan within a fraction of a millimeter. The same platform powers our hip, total knee, and partial knee replacements.
CT-based
3D planning
A surgical plan built from your CT scan — specific to your anatomy.
Sub-mm
Accuracy
Bone cuts and implant placement executed within a fraction of a millimeter.
Surgeon-led
Robotic arm
Not autonomous — every motion is controlled by the surgeon.
Hip · Knee · Partial
All three procedures
The same Mako platform powers all of our joint replacement procedures.
How Mako works.
A combined overview of how the Mako system powers hip, total knee, and partial knee replacement — from CT-based planning through robotic-arm execution to recovery.
— Animation
Mako for Joint Replacement
Video courtesy of Stryker
Three steps.
One system.
Robotic-assisted surgery isn’t a single moment in the operating room — it’s a system that starts with a CT scan weeks before surgery and continues through every cut and implant placement on the day.
— BEFORE
CT scan & 3D model
A pre-operative CT scan is converted into a personalized 3D model of your joint. From that model, we build a surgical plan specific to your anatomy: implant size, position, alignment, and how it interacts with your soft tissues.
— DURING
Real-time adjustment
In the operating room, the plan is updated based on how your knee or hip actually behaves under tension — soft-tissue balance, range of motion, ligament behavior. The plan becomes truly final at this point, not before.
— EXECUTION
Robotic-arm precision
The Mako robotic arm enforces the final plan. Bone cuts are made within a fraction of a millimeter of the planned position. The implant fits because the bone was prepared to fit it — not the other way around.
Why robotic
precision matters.
A joint replacement isn’t a one-day operation — it’s a 20-year implant. The small alignment errors that traditional surgery sometimes accumulates are the same errors that show up as long-term wear, loosening, or revision surgery. Robotic precision is about avoiding those errors before they happen.
01
Personalized, not templated
Most joint replacement is performed using a standardized plan adjusted intra-operatively. Mako inverts that — the plan is built from your CT scan from the start.
02
Better alignment, better wear
Sub-millimeter accuracy in bone cuts and implant positioning. Proper alignment is the foundation of how a joint replacement performs and wears over time.
03
Real-time soft-tissue balance
The plan can be adjusted intra-operatively based on how your ligaments actually behave — something that’s hard to assess accurately without robotic tools.
04
Surgeon-controlled, not autonomous
Every motion of the robotic arm is controlled by the surgeon. Mako enforces the plan and prevents alignment errors — it doesn’t replace surgical judgment.
05
Smaller margin of error
Especially for partial knee replacement, where there’s less room for the small alignment errors that a total knee can absorb.
06
Fewer outliers, more consistency
The strongest finding in the robotic-assisted literature: dramatically fewer alignment outliers than conventional technique. The cases that go just slightly wrong, don’t.