GENEVA & COPENHAGEN, Denmark--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 2, 2026--
Medimaps Group S.A., a global leader in AI-driven bone microarchitecture imaging solutions, and Radiobotics ApS, a leader in AI-powered MSK radiology solutions, today announced that they have entered into a strategic merger agreement. Closing of the transaction is subject to receipt of Danish foreign direct investment (FDI) approval and other customary closing conditions. The merger will combine the two specialized AI medical imaging analysis companies to accelerate the adoption of AI-enabled musculoskeletal imaging, bringing complementary technologies, clinical validation, and global commercial capabilities together under a unified MSK vision.
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The combined organization will offer a comprehensive suite of AI-enabled medical imaging solutions across X-ray and DXA modalities, ranging from automated fracture detection and opportunistic bone fragility assessment to fracture risk prediction. Medimaps Group’s bone microarchitecture solutions – including TBS Osteo™ and TBS Reveal™ – together with RBfracture™, Radiobotics’ flagship solution for detecting trauma-related findings, integrate seamlessly into existing radiology workflows through PACS-enabled capabilities.
The mission of the combined entity will be to solve the silent crisis of bone health by closing the gap between reactive diagnostics and preventative care. This partnership will create the world’s first end-to-end MSK AI ecosystem, where every X-ray becomes a tool for both detection and long-term risk prediction. To achieve this at scale, the organization will leverage its combined clinical expertise, operational capabilities, and established distribution networks to expand access to its portfolio across 90 markets worldwide – including the United States - serving hospitals, clinics, and imaging centers.
“This merger represents a pivotal milestone in Medimaps Group’s long-term strategy to strengthen our leadership in bone health assessment,” said Univ.-Prof. Dr. Didier Hans, Co-founder and CEO of Medimaps Group. “Our ambition is to give radiologists a single, trusted platform that brings together fracture detection and fracture risk prediction across the continuum of care, so clinicians can make better decisions, patients receive better outcomes, and healthcare systems benefit from more efficient, evidence-based care.”
A combined executive team will lead the new organization, ensuring continuity in strategy and support while preserving the MSK expertise of both brands. By maintaining key leadership from both sides, the group will be positioned to foster a high-growth, collaborative environment that honors the heritage of both companies.
“Radiobotics has always been driven by scientific rigor and real-world clinical impact,” says Peter Ulvskjold, CEO of Radiobotics and member of the Medimaps Group Executive Committee. “Joining Medimaps Group will accelerate access to our technology. It’s an important step in our vision to ensure patients receive immediate and precise, expert-level care in MSK imaging, 24/7, regardless of time, infrastructure, or staffing constraints.”
Fractures remain one of the most common and operationally demanding challenges for hospitals and emergency departments. High trauma volumes, time-critical decision-making, and the risk of missed or delayed diagnoses place sustained pressure on clinicians and care pathways. Improving the speed and consistency of fracture assessment is therefore critical for patient outcomes and hospital efficiency. Osteoporosis and related fragility fractures alone represent a significant clinical and economic burden for healthcare systems, with annual costs currently estimated at $22 billion and projected to rise to more than $95 billion by 2040 1.
Early identification of bone fragility and accurate fracture risk assessment are critical to enabling timely intervention and preventing fractures before they occur. By leveraging AI-powered imaging solutions such as RBfracture™, TBS Reveal™ and TBS Osteo™, radiologists can more effectively identify at-risk patients and support proactive clinical management.
Financial terms of the transaction will not be disclosed.
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About Medimaps Group
Founded by medical practitioners and clinical researchers, Medimaps combines Swiss innovation with a global presence to lead in bone health management. We provide healthcare professionals worldwide with advanced AI-driven software that enables comprehensive bone microarchitecture assessment.
Our passion for musculoskeletal health is grounded in scientific expertise and strengthened through collaborations with world-class academics, clinicians, industry partners, and patient communities. The science behind our imaging applications and robust clinical evidence form the core of Medimaps Group’s identity.
Medimaps Group, headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, has offices in the United States and France. Its U.S. affiliate, Medimaps Group USA LLC, markets the company products and services.
Learn more at www.medimaps.ai
About Radiobotics
Founded in 2017, Radiobotics is an award-winning Danish MedTech company dedicated to advancing musculoskeletal (MSK) radiology with AI-powered solutions. Radiobotics’ flagship solution, RBfracture ™, is designed to support Emergency and Radiology with highly accurate detection of trauma-related findings, including fractures, dislocations, lipohemarthrosis, and effusion.
Radiobotics’ commitment to delivering precise, expert-level care in MSK imaging 24/7, regardless of time, infrastructure, or staffing constraints, is reflected in its close collaboration with leading clinical institutions, including partnering with Oxford University Hospital (OUH) on the world’s first and largest randomised clinical trial evaluating radiology AI in urgent care as well as achieving NICE approval for use in urgent care settings across the NHS.
Peter Ulvskjold from Radiobotics (left) and Didier Hans from Medimaps Group (right)
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Iran and Iranian-backed militias fired missiles at Israel and Arab states, apparently hitting the U.S. Embassy compound in Kuwait, while Israel and the United States pounded targets in Iran as the war expanded on Monday with statements of defiance and increasing casualties.
At least 555 people have been killed in Iran so far by the U.S.-Israeli campaign, the Iranian Red Crescent Society said, and more than 130 cities across the country having come under attack. Eleven people have been killed in Israel, according to authorities there.
In Kuwait City, as fire and smoke rose from inside the U.S. Embassy compound, the country's defense ministry said “several” American warplanes had also crashed in the country. The ministry did not elaborate on what caused the crashes or how many aircraft were involved, but said the pilots were taken to a hospital and were in stable condition. The U.S. military did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
The embassy compound was hit not long after U.S. issued a warning to Americans there to take cover and for others to stay away. There were no immediate reports on damage or casualties.
Meantime, as the American and Israeli airstrikes continued, top Iranian security official Ali Larijani vowed on X that “we will not negotiate with the United States.”
In Iraq, a pro-Iranian militia claimed responsibility for a drone attack targeting U.S. troops at the Baghdad airport, the day after it said it fired at a U.S. base in the city of Irbil in the north, and Cyprus said a drone attack targeted a British base on the Mediterranean island nation.
Israel and the U.S. bombed Iranian missile sites and targeted its navy, claiming to have destroyed its headquarters and multiple warships.
With world markets already rattled by the fighting and oil prices soaring, Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura oil refinery came under attack Monday from drones, with defenses downing the incoming aircraft, a military spokesman made the announcement on the state-run Saudi Press Agency.
Online videos from the site appeared to show thick black smoke rising after the attack. Even successfully intercepted drones cause debris that can spark fires and injure those on the ground.
Ras Tanura, near the city of Dammam in eastern Saudi Arabia, is one of the world's largest with a capacity over half a million barrels of crude oil a day. It was temporarily shut down as a precaution after the attack, Saudi state television reported.
Earlier in the day, debris fell on Kuwait's Ahmadi oil refinery, injuring two workers, after drones were shot down, the state-run KUNA news agency reported.
Iran’s decision to expands its attacks to major regional oil infrastructure add a new element to the war gripping the Middle East, directly targeting the lifeblood of the area's economy.
“The attack on Saudi Arabia’s Ras Tanura refinery marks a significant escalation, with Gulf energy infrastructure now squarely in Iran’s sights,” said Torbjorn Soltvedt, an analyst at the risk intelligence company Verisk Maplecroft.
“An extended period of uncertainty lies ahead as Iran seeks to impose a heavy economic cost by putting tankers, regional energy infrastructure, trade routes and U.S. security partners in the crosshairs,” he added.
Already, Iran has been threatening ships in the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a fifth of all oil traded passes. Several ships have been attacked as well there.
Sascha Bruchmann, a defense analyst with the International Institute for Strategic Studies in Bahrain, told The Associated Press that Iran's goal in hitting energy infrastructure is to 'cause global backlash and impose costs" on the U.S. president.
So far, however, “this is not the wholesome destruction of critical infrastructure the Iranian regime seeks,” Bruchmann said.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Ambassador to the U.N. nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency, Reza Najafi, told reporters that the U.S.-Israeli airstrikes had targeted Iran's Natanz nuclear enrichment site on Sunday.
“Again they attacked Iran’s peaceful safeguarded nuclear facilities yesterday,” he said. “Their justification that Iran wants to develop nuclear weapons is simply a big lie.”
Israel and the U.S. have not acknowledged strikes at the site, which the U.S. bombed back in the 12-day war between Iran and Israel in June. The Israeli military also did not immediately comment on Najafi's allegation.
Israel has not publicized specific targets in Iran but has said that it is targeting “leadership and nuclear infrastructure.”
As the attacks on Iran continued, Hezbollah said it fired missiles from Lebanon into Israel early Monday in response to the killing of Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and “repeated Israeli aggressions.” There were no reports of injuries or damage, and Israel said that it had intercepted one projectile while several fell in open areas.
Israel retaliated with strikes on Lebanon, killing at least 31 people and wounding 149 others, according to Lebanon's Health Ministry. About two thirds of the dead were in the country's south.
Lebanon’s government said it was holding an emergency meeting after Hezbollah’s attack on Israel triggered the Israeli airstrikes.
Iran has been firing missiles at Israel and Arab states in a counteroffensive since the joint America-Israeli attack Saturday that killed Khamenei and many top Iranian officials.
Gulf Arab states have warned that they could retaliate against Iran after strikes that hit key sites and killed at least five civilians, and U.S. President Donald Trump promised Washington would “avenge” the deaths of three American troops who were killed in Kuwait, while predicting more casualties.
“Sadly, there will likely be more before it ends,” Trump said. “That’s the way it is.”
Trump has urged Iranians to “take over” their government and, while he has also signaled he would be open to dialogue with new leadership there following the death of Khamenei, suggested Sunday there was no end in sight to the military operations.
“Combat operations continue at this time in full-force, and they will continue until all of our objectives are achieved,” he said in a video message. “We have very strong objectives,” he added, without elaborating.
The U.S. military said B-2 stealth bombers struck Iran’s ballistic missile facilities with 2,000-pound bombs. Trump said on social media that nine Iranian warships had been sunk and that the Iranian navy’s headquarters had been “largely destroyed.”
Others have mostly stayed out of the war and pressed for diplomacy. But in an indication that the conflict could draw in other nations, Britain, France and Germany said Sunday they were ready to work with the U.S. to help stop Iran’s attacks.
Early Monday, Cyprus said an uncrewed drone “caused limited damage” when it hit a British air base on the southern coast. Further details were not immediately available, but it came after British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said the U.K. would help the U.S. in the war against Iran.
The weekend attacks were the second time in eight months that the U.S. and Israel had combined against Iran, in a startling show of military might for an American president elected on an “America First” platform and pledged to keep out of “forever wars.”
In the 12-day war last June, Israeli and American strikes greatly weakened Iran’s air defenses, military leadership and nuclear program. But the killing of Khamenei, who ruled Iran for more than three decades, creates a leadership vacuum, increasing the risk of regional instability.
Hezbollah’s launch of missiles at Israel was the first time in more than a year that the militant group has claimed an attack.
Iran’s proxies were a chief concern for American and Israeli officials before they suspended negotiations with Iran last week and moved ahead with strikes on Iran.
Israel said the Lebanese militant Hezbollah group had “joined the campaign” alongside Iran as it retaliated with strikes on Beirut, Lebanon's capital.
Associated Press journalists in Beirut were jolted awake by a series of loud explosions that shook buildings and caused windows to shatter. Warplanes could be heard flying low overhead.
“The strikes continue,” said Maj. Gen. Rafi Milo, head of Israel’s Northern Command. “Their intensity will increase.”
The Iraqi Shiite militia Saraya Awliya al-Dam claimed a drone attack Monday targeting U.S. troops at the airport in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, further widening the retaliation over the killing of Khamenei. It had claimed a drone attack on Sunday against a U.S. air base in Irbil, in Iraq’s north.
The group is one of a number of Shiite militias operating in Iraq. The U.S. and Iraq did not immediately comment on the claims.
In the Persian Gulf, Iran’s retaliatory strikes pushed the conflict into cities that have long marketed themselves as regional safe havens. Three people were reported killed in the United Arab Emirates and one each in Kuwait and Bahrain.
In the United Arab Emirates, authorities said most Iranian missiles and drones were intercepted. But some either got through or fell as debris, causing the deaths and significant damage. Bahrain and Kuwait said Iranian strikes in both countries hit civilian targets outside the U.S. bases where Iran had pledged to retaliate.
Tehran’s streets have been largely deserted with people sheltering during airstrikes. The paramilitary Basij force, which has played a central role in crushing recent protests, set up checkpoints across the city, according to witnesses.
In the northern Iranian city of Babol, a student, speaking anonymously over concerns of retribution, told the AP that armed riot police were on the streets Saturday night and into the early hours of Sunday after the death of Khamenei.
“We don’t know whether to be happy about the elimination of the criminals who oppress us or to remain silent in the face of the U.S. and Israel’s war against the country and its interests and the terror that is taking place,” he said.
In Israel, rescue services have confirmed several locations have been hit by Iranian missiles, including Jerusalem and a synagogue in Beit Shemesh, where nine people were killed and 28 wounded, bringing the overall death toll in the country to 11.
The World Health Organization called Monday for sparing civilians and healthcare facilities in the Middle East amid the escalating conflict.
“The protection of civilians and health care must be absolute,” Hanan Balkhy, regional dietitian at WHO wrote on social media. “All parties must … ensure medical facilities remain protected.”
Rising reported from Bangkok and Magdy from Cairo. Associated Press writers Bassem Mroue and Sally Abou AlJoud in Beirut contributed to this report.
Iraqi Shiites hold pictures of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Tehran, during a symbolic funeral, in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
This image provided by U.S. Central Command shows a F/A-18F Super Hornet preparing to make an arrested landing on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)) in support of Operation Epic Fury, on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (U.S. Navy via AP)
In this photo taken with a slow shutter speed, a Middle East Airlines plane flies over Beirut as smoke rises from Israeli airstrikes on Dahiyeh in Beirut's southern suburbs, early Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar)
A man takes pictures of the damage in an apartment building after it was hit by an Israeli airstrike in Dahiyeh, Beirut's southern suburb, Lebanon, Monday, March 2, 2026. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)
This image provided by U.S. Central Command shows a Navy sailor observing flight operations aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72)) in support of Operation Epic Fury, on Saturday, Feb. 28, 2026. (U.S. Navy via AP)
Iraqi Shiites hold pictures of Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Tehran, during a symbolic funeral, in Najaf, Iraq, Sunday, March 1, 2026. (AP Photo/Anmar Khalil)
