June 15, 2010 (FinancialWire) — MAKO Surgical Corp. (NASDAQ: MAKO) said its RIO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic System has received a 2010 Gold Medical Design Excellence Award.

RIO is used to perform partial knee resurfacing, a treatment option for patients with early to mid-stage osteoarthritis of the knee.

The 2010 Medical Design Excellence Award winners were honored at a presentation ceremony on Wednesday, June 9, 2010 in New York City's Jacob K. Javits Convention Center, in conjunction with the Medical Design & Manufacturing East Conference and Exposition.

The Medical Design Excellence Awards competition recognizes contributions and advances in the design of medical products. Entries are evaluated on the basis of their design and engineering features, including innovative use of materials, user-related functions that improve healthcare delivery and change traditional medical attitudes or practices, features that provide enhanced benefits to the patient, and the ability of the product development team to overcome design and engineering challenges so that the product meets its clinical objectives.

MAKO Surgical Corp. is a medical device company that markets both its RIO Robotic Arm Interactive Orthopedic system and its proprietary RESTORIS implants for minimally invasive orthopedic knee procedures.

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