The room where every
surgery begins, automated
Hospitals reprocess millions of surgical instruments by hand, under a labor shortage that never lets up. Octavian builds the robots that inspect, decontaminate, and kit them, starting with bioburden inspection.
The most critical room in the hospital still runs on hands
Sterile processing, the SPD, is where every used surgical instrument is cleaned, inspected, reassembled into trays, and sterilized before it can touch another patient. It is relentless, skilled, and almost entirely manual, and it is running short of the people to do it.
A workforce that can't keep up
SPDs face chronic understaffing and high turnover in a demanding, physically punishing role. Techs are asked to move faster on the exact task where a mistake reaches a patient.
Bioburden slips through
Residual blood and tissue hides in hinges, lumens, and box locks. When a "clean" instrument still carries bioburden, it goes on to sterilization and into the next surgery, a documented driver of retained-contamination events.
The OR waits on the tray
Missing or incorrectly assembled trays delay cases, force immediate-use sterilization, and ripple straight into OR schedules. The whole surgical operation is gated by this one room.
Three robots for one department, in the order that matters
We automate the SPD one proven step at a time, starting where the risk is highest and the entry is cleanest: catching contamination before it advances. Each robot shares one platform, so every deployment makes the next one faster.
Inspection
A vision-guided station that inspects every reprocessed instrument for residual soil and bioburden, flags what fails, and routes it back to wash, before it ever reaches assembly or the sterilizer.
- Catches contamination the human eye misses at hinges and lumens
- Logs a per-instrument record for full traceability
- Drops into the existing workflow, no line rebuild
Decontamination
The robot that does the cleaning itself, delivering consistent, validated decontamination of complex instrument geometries without relying on manual scrubbing under time pressure.
- Repeatable cleaning of hinges, lumens, and box locks
- Feeds inspection with a higher, steadier first-pass rate
- Removes the most physically punishing manual step
Kitting
The robot that rebuilds instrument trays, picking, identifying, and placing each instrument into the correct kit against the count sheet, so trays leave complete, correct, and on time.
- Assembles trays against the count sheet, every time
- Eliminates missing-instrument delays in the OR
- Closes the loop: clean, checked, and kitted end to end
One robotics platform behind all three robots
Octavian is built on a robotics foundation already proven across 120+ regulated facilities. The same building blocks, vision, adaptive handling, and an audit-grade record, redeploy from inspection to decontamination to kitting, so each robot ships faster than starting from scratch.
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AI vision & inspection
Machine-vision models that locate, orient, and inspect instruments in real time, catching soil and bioburden a tired eye misses.
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Adaptive instrument handling
End-effectors that grip forceps, scissors, and delicate instruments across geometries without damage.
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Validated process control
Cleaning and handling sequences tuned to reprocessing standards, run the same way on every cycle.
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Audit-grade traceability
Every instrument and every action logged into a record built for a regulated, inspection-ready department.
Land on one bench, prove it, then expand
Start with inspection
We place the inspection robot on your decontam-to-assembly handoff, the highest-risk step, with the least disruption to how your department already runs.
Prove it in your numbers
We measure catch rate, throughput, and the traceability record against your baseline, so the value is demonstrated in your department before anything scales.
Expand across the line
With inspection trusted, we bring decontamination and kitting onto the same platform, automating the SPD end to end at the pace you set.
Octavian inherited a republic of moving parts and made it run as one system. That is exactly what we do for the room where every surgery begins.
Bring robotics to your sterile processing department
If your SPD is fighting turnover, bioburden, and tray delays, we would like to hear how it runs today. Tell us about your department and we will show you where the inspection robot fits first.
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