surgical robotics

J&J's table-integrated OTTAVA robot completed all 30 gastric bypass procedures without conversion and met safety endpoints, advancing its FDA De Novo application.

NVIDIA released GR00T-H at GTC 2026, a 3-billion-parameter vision-language-action model for surgical robots trained on the Open-H dataset of 778 hours of procedure recordings from 35 institutions and seven robotic platforms, with CMR Surgical contributing nearly 500 hours from its Versius system.