Surgical Robotics
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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.
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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.
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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.
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