Ask ten patients what “robotic knee replacement” means and you’ll get ten different answers. Most picture a robotic arm doing the cutting on its own, no surgeon involved. That’s not what happens. Not with RoboEye ER, and honestly, not with most robotic-assisted systems in India right now.
So let’s clear that up first.
The part that actually changes: the planning
RoboEye ER is the planning and visualisation layer of the ROBO-Suite at Park Hospital, Mohali & Panchkula — the platform Punjab’s Health Minister personally inaugurated when it launched. What it does, in practical terms, is take a patient’s CT scan and turn it into a 3D model of their actual knee, not a textbook knee, before anyone picks up an instrument.
From there, the surgical team works out implant size, position, and alignment against that specific patient’s bone anatomy. This is called landmarking, and it’s the step where most of the guesswork traditionally happened — surgeons making real-time judgment calls mid-surgery based on what they see and feel. RoboEye ER moves a big part of that decision-making to before the surgery even starts.
Mixed reality, not virtual reality
Here’s the part that surprises people. Before entering the OT, the surgeon reviews the full surgical plan through a wearable mixed-reality headset — seeing the 3D bone model, implant positioning, and alignment data overlaid and ready to walk through, almost like a rehearsal. It’s not a video. It’s not a slideshow. It’s the actual plan, reviewed in three dimensions, before the first incision.
Then surgery happens with that plan already locked in. Which is really the whole point — less improvising once the patient is already on the table.
What it isn’t
RoboEye ER is one piece of the ROBO-Suite, not the whole thing. The suite integrates three components — Robo Arm, Robo Eye, and Robo 3D — into one AI-augmented system. RoboEye specifically handles the seeing and planning part. It doesn’t replace the surgeon’s hands, and no honest description of it should suggest otherwise.
That’s a distinction worth caring about, because a lot of marketing in this space blurs it on purpose.
Why the planning step matters more than it sounds
Traditional knee replacement relies heavily on intraoperative judgment — skilled judgment, but judgment made under time pressure with limited visual reference. Pre-planning with a full 3D model, reviewed calmly before the patient is even in the OT, removes a layer of that pressure. Implant sizing gets matched to the patient’s actual bone geometry instead of the closest standard fit. Alignment gets checked against a model, not estimated.
None of this makes surgery risk-free — nothing does. But it does mean the plan walking into the OT is a patient-specific one, worked out in advance, not assembled on the fly.
Who’s behind it in Mohali & Panchkula
Dr. Bhanu Pratap Singh Saluja, Director of Orthopedics & Robotic Surgery at Park Hospital, is the surgeon leading RoboEye ER at both locations. Over 20+ years of practice and 30,000+ orthopaedic surgeries, the shift toward pre-planned, 3D-guided knee and hip replacement has been one of the more meaningful changes in how these procedures are approached here.
The plan is made before you enter the OT, not during it. That’s the difference this actually makes.
If you’re weighing a knee replacement and want to understand whether pre-planned, mixed-reality guided surgery makes sense for your case, that’s a conversation worth having directly — not something to decide off a brochure.