Meet Kat
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Found out that intuitive specifically in one of my classes in undergrad, we did some hospital visits and they showed us an OR where they had a da Vinci XI set up. And I saw that. I was like, oh, yeah, I can still be in the medical space and do engineering. This is so cool. I was, I was just like really inspired to join the company after that. My parents were both doctors when I was growing up and so they kind of like instilled in me this sense of having a great sense of purpose with what you're doing with your day to day and making people's lives better. And so because of that, when I was a kid, I was just like, oh, I'm going to be like my parents. I'm going to be helping people feel better. It went from this like very like naive childhood dream to becoming something that I view myself as someone who is working to make the world better in small ways through my job. It brings me a lot of meaning, for sure. Now. We have to be constantly innovating, constantly thinking, like, what's next? What's the user experience going to be? How do we make this better? And so there's a lot of fun kind of creative thinking that we get to do with the robot. So there's cool like joint mechanics, cool like, oh, how am I going to fit everything? But at the end of the day, the problems that you get to solve because we've already done so much great engineering in the past, so all of the challenges that we have now are the hard, fun ones where there is no clear solution, there is no clear path, and we get to find out how to do that in a safe manner for our surgeons and for our patients. I think it's the passion for the product and the eagerness to learn and be curious. For sure. We have people here who are like lifers, basically, who have been around as long as the company has been around, and people who joined very recently. And I think everyone is just really amazing to work with and they all share this, like, excitement and passion for the product and for learning and solving problems together.
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