Surgical Robotics
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EndoQuest Robotics Completes Enrollment in Pivotal Trial, Reports 100% En Bloc Resection Rate
EndoQuest Robotics finished enrolling 49 subjects in its pivotal PARADIGM trial for robotic colorectal lesion removal, citing a 100% en bloc resection rate.
UC San Diego Team Performs First Teleoperated Humanoid Robot Surgery in a Preclinical Trial, Publishing in Nature
Engineers and surgeons at UC San Diego used two teleoperated humanoid robots, nicknamed Surgie, to complete two gallbladder-removal procedures, reporting the results in Nature.
CMR Surgical Takes Its Versius Plus Robot Into the US Market and Files to Expand From Gallbladders Into Gynecology
After a December 510(k) clearance for cholecystectomy, the UK firm is commercializing Versius Plus in the US and has applied to add benign gynecology procedures.
Johnson & Johnson's OTTAVA Robotic Surgical System Meets Pivotal Study Endpoints in Gastric Bypass Trial
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.
CMR Surgical Kicks Off US Launch of Versius Plus, Opening a Second Front Against Intuitive Surgical's Da Vinci
After FDA 510(k) clearance in December and a 45,000-patient global milestone in March, the Cambridge-based surgical robotics company begins placing its modular, lower-cost Versius Plus system in US hospitals.
NVIDIA Releases GR00T-H, the First Open Foundation Model for Surgical Robotics, Trained on 778 Hours of Operating Room Data
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.