Jul 17, 2026 · 47 min
Software startups target surgical automation and fractional real estate investing
The dawn of surgery bots + buy a home for $250 (w/ Andromeda & Mogul) | E2313
As software eating the world enters its physical phase, startups are bypassing expensive custom hardware to automate surgery and fractionalize real estate.
- 1Andromeda Surgical uses off-the-shelf hardware and proprietary AI software to automate complex urological procedures.
- 2Surgery presents a more bounded and predictable environment for autonomous systems than self-driving cars.
- 3Mogul utilizes tokenization to let individuals invest in single-family rental homes starting at just two hundred and fifty dollars.
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Nick Damiano explains why the structured environment of an operating room makes surgery a much easier problem for AI to solve than autonomous driving.
The brief
The intersection of software and physical systems is transforming legacy industries, as medical technology and real estate undergo massive shifts toward automation and fractional ownership.
Nick Damiano of Andromeda Surgical explains how the company uses off-the-shelf robotic arms and custom software to automate urological procedures, arguing that surgery is a highly bounded environment ideal for AI.
By recruiting talent from autonomous vehicle companies and Neuralink, Andromeda aims to deploy autonomous surgical robots to underserved global regions that lack access to specialist surgeons.
Shifting to real estate, Alex Blackwood of Mogul details how tokenization allows retail investors to buy fractional shares of single-family rental properties for as little as $250.
Whether through autonomous operating rooms or fractional property deeds, software is lowering the barriers to entry for highly specialized and capital-intensive industries.
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