What is Rods&Cones, and what do we do?
At Rods&Cones, we enable medical experts to be virtually present in any operating room worldwide. Our remote surgical collaboration service, including all necessary hardware, software and support, allows professionals to do more, see more, and teach more, enhancing efficiency, training, and patient care.
How does Rods&Cones work?
We offer a suite of smart, wearable devices that stream live surgical procedures to remote experts.
These devices include: smart glasses, video converters and webcams which easily connect to our robust and highly secure online platform, enabling seamless audio-visual communication between surgeons, proctors, and medical teams, ensuring the best possible surgical outcomes.
What are the benefits of using Rods&Cones solutions?
- Real-time surgical collaboration: Connect with remote specialists instantly.
- Increased efficiency: Reduce travel costs and time for experts.
- Improved training & education: Enable medical teams to learn remotely from live procedures.
- Enhanced patient outcomes: Provide better decision-making through expert guidance.
Which industries and professionals can benefit from Rods&Cones?
Our solutions are designed for:
- MedTech companies: Improve efficiency across the full sales, training, and support cycle by enabling seamless remote collaboration.
- Healthcare providers & hospitals: To improve surgical efficiency and collaboration.
- Surgeons & medical experts: To train, guide, and supervise procedures remotely.
- Emergency & field surgery operations: To assist remote and challenging environments with real-time expertise.
How does Rods&Cones improve surgical collaboration?
We provide a wearable, hands-free technology solution that connects surgeons, proctors, and medical experts in real time. Using our smart devices and secure online platform, remote professionals can see exactly what the surgeon sees and collaborate during procedures.
How does Rods&Cones support training and education?
With our remote collaboration tools, experts can mentor, teach, and train medical teams worldwide. This ensures broader access to expertise, better learning experiences, and faster knowledge transfer, ultimately improving surgical outcomes.
What makes Rods&Cones different from other remote surgical solutions?
Unlike traditional telemedicine tools, Rods&Cones provides a hands-free, surgeon-focused solution with specialized wearables, ensuring a seamless first-person surgical view for remote experts. Our system is designed specifically for operating rooms, allowing precise real-time guidance without disrupting the procedure. Additionally, Rods&Cones’ hardware is a fully portable kit, requiring no fixed or cabled setup in the OR. All connections are wireless and cloud-based, making it incredibly easy to set up and use across multiple locations. This flexibility allows healthcare professionals to deploy the system instantly, wherever it’s needed, without the limitations of traditional, wired telepresence solutions.
Additionally, Rods&Cones offers cORe — a hospital-based, pole-mounted device designed for interventional environments. Unlike the portable kits, cORe lives permanently in the hospital and connects the OR team to a remote expert with a single touch on its built-in touchscreen. No setup, no cables, no IT support required on the day. cORe can also work jointly with the portable kits in a single session.
Do I need special equipment to use Rods&Cones?
No additional infrastructure is required, just a stable internet connection and our wearable devices included in one of our kits. Our technology is designed for easy setup and immediate use in operating rooms and clinical environments.
Alternatively, if your hospital prefers a permanently installed solution, cORe is available as a standalone device — a wheeled, pole-mounted unit with a built-in PTZ camera and touchscreen. cORe requires no kit setup at all: staff connect to a remote expert instantly with one touch.
Is the Rods&Cones system easy to set up and use?
Yes! It’s plug-and-play, requiring only a stable internet connection. No special infrastructure is needed—just our devices from one of our Kits and access to our secure online platform.
What is cORe, and how is it different from the OR Kits?
cORe is Rods&Cones‘ hospital-based remote support device, designed for interventional environments. It is a wheeled, pole-mounted unit with a built-in PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) camera, a touchscreen interface, and up to 5 hours of battery life. A remote expert connection can be started with a single touch — no configuration, no cables, no login credentials needed on the day. cORe is designed to be moved between ORs within a hospital.
The OR Kits, by contrast, are portable and designed to travel with the MedTech field team between hospitals. Both can be used together in a single session for a fully combined view.
How secure is the Rods&Cones platform?
We prioritize data security and compliance with regulations like GDPR and HIPAA. All communications are end-to-end encrypted to protect patient confidentiality and ensure secure surgical collaboration. Safety and security are built into our service by design. Rods&Cones is ISO 27001 certified and fully compliant with the highest security standards required in the healthcare industry.
What training and support does Rods&Cones offer to medical teams adopting this service?
We provide in-person and online comprehensive training programs and 24/5 support to ensure that medical teams are proficient in using our service, facilitating a smooth transition and effective utilization in clinical settings.
Can I bring my own devices?
To enable the highest level of security and standardisation throughout our solution, rods&cones is running over dedicated devices delivered by rods&cones. We will update these when a better version becomes available.
How does Rods&Cones help MedTech field service teams?
MedTech companies use Rods&Cones to streamline service and repair workflows. Senior engineers can support junior technicians remotely in real time — seeing exactly what they see in the field and guiding them through diagnostics or repairs without needing to travel on-site. The result: faster response times, fewer escalations, and improved first-time fix rates.
How can I book a demo or learn more?
You can book here a free demo, https://rods-cones.com/book-demo/, and a member of our team will guide you through our service and its benefits.