ARPA-H awards Philips up to $33.7M for autonomous stroke robotics

Jul 14, 2026 · Award · Philips · Healthcare

ARPA-H awarded Philips North America up to $33.7 million for A-RISE, a programme to develop autonomous endovascular procedures for stroke care.

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  • Philips is working with Johns Hopkins University and Boston University.
  • The team will combine image-guided therapy infrastructure, imitation learning and a multi-channel fluid-driven steerable catheter.
  • The programme targets autonomous mechanical thrombectomy and other neurointerventional procedures.

Philips develops health technology including image-guided intervention systems and autonomous surgical-robotics research.