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Article intro - Super minimally invasive surgery robots
An interesting review appeared in Biomimetic Intelligence and Robotics journal: Super minimally invasive surgical robot (SMIS-Robot): Interdisciplinary integration paves the way for a new era of...
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Open-H initiative 2.0 CFP
"Open-H is the world's largest open healthcare robotics dataset, downloaded more than 500,000 times. Our next step is giving it clinical context: marking the anatomy, the surgical phases, and the...
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CFP - MAKE Special Issue on Surgical Intelligence
A Special Issue of Machine Learning and Knowledge Extraction (ISSN 2504-4990) belonging to the section "Learning" is now open for submissions, including the topics related to surgical intelligence and...
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CIS news
Aletta - Autonomous Robotic Phlebotomy Device has received De Novo authorization from the FDAFDA Authorizes First-Of-Its-Kind Robotic Blood Draw Device: Aletta UC San Diego engineers to develop soft,...
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Number of the day - 39% growth
"SS Innovations is a commercial challenger to Intuitive; its installed base has gone from just 78 systems at the end of Q1 FY25 to 224 in Q2 FY26 - that is up 187% over that period. Revenue growth in...
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Number of the day - €155m
Enovis said Tuesday it will buy eCential Robotics for 155 million euros (nearly $180 million) upfront to support development of surgical robots for orthopedic procedures.Working with the team at...
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Article intro - Versius in Transoral Robotic Surgery
A study on the "Safety and Efficacy of the Versius Surgical System in Transoral Robotic Surgery: A Prospective Study" appeared in Otolaryngology– Head and Neck Surgery 2026, Vol. 00(00)...
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Friday fun
A robot surgeon at Boston Dynamics means a little something else... "Mark DiLeo, a member of Atlas repair team, shares how Boston Dynamics fixes problems that have never been seen before and what...
View ArticleNumber of the day - $700m
Medtronic announced strategic partnership and $700m investment in Cornerstone Robotics with Sentire
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Intuitive IG1000 cleared by FDA
Intuitive Endoluminal Gastrointestinal System (IG1000) has received FDA 510(k) clearance. ManufacturerIntuitive Surgical, Inc.SystemIntuitive Endoluminal Gastrointestinal SystemModelIG1000FDA...
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Friday fun
While the figure implies fun, picturing robotics as the elephant in the OR, a recent multi-center study on the 12-month clinical outcome of robot-assisted TKA appeared in the Lancet raised many...
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Article intro - Delphi study on Surgical AI
Collins et al. published in npj Digital Surgery: "Guidance on AI-enhanced surgical practice: a Delphi consensus on ontology, data, implementation and evaluation". Full reference: Justin W. Collins,...
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Number of the day - $40 bn
So far the robotics equity funding total for 2026 is approx $40 Billion compared to $36 Billion total for 2025.Source: Robots & Startups
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CIS news
Magnendo Secures Up to $32M ARPA-H Award for Autonomous Endovascular RoboticsNoah Medical has announced the commercial launch of the Galaxy II software Rob Surgical 's pathway to the CE Mark for ROB...
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