# Auris Health: company

Canonical ID: `df69ac5c-53c1-4fa6-94d2-8f377e9bf87c`

## Key facts

- **Robot:** Monarch endoluminal platform for bronchoscopy
- **Focus:** Surgical robotics
- **Backers:** Acquired by Johnson & Johnson for $3.4B in 2019
- **Country:** US
- **HQ:** Redwood City, CA
- **Parent company:** Johnson & Johnson MedTech (acquired 2019 for $3.4B)
- **Product:** Monarch Platform robotic bronchoscopy system
- **Regulatory:** FDA cleared for diagnostic and therapeutic bronchoscopic procedures

- **Slug:** auris-health
- **Status:** acquired by Johnson & Johnson (2019)
- **HQ:** Redwood City, CA, USA

## Models

- [Monarch Platform](/models/auris-health-monarch.md) (surgical) (id: `fec634ea-8227-4fba-8acc-695f3728a469`)

## Acquisitions (1)

- [acquired by Johnson & Johnson](/acquisitions/jnj-acquires-auris-2019.md) _full acquisition_

## Supplies to

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## Incidents affecting Auris Health (7)

- [Auris Monarch bronchoscope: Navigation EM error at the docking station, scope removed (FDA MAUDE)](/incidents/auris-monarch-bronchoscope-navigation-em-error-maude-2026.md), 2026-05-08 · Malfunction
- [Auris Monarch: patient developed pneumothorax post-procedure requiring chest-tube placement (FDA MAUDE)](/incidents/auris-monarch-pneumothorax-chest-tube-maude-2026.md), 2026-04-30 · Injury
- [Auris Health (J&J) recalls Monarch over unanticipated robotic arm positioning toward patient-left](/incidents/auris-monarch-arm-positioning-patient-left-recall-2026.md), 2026-01-21 · Recall
- [Auris Health (J&J) recalls Monarch bronchoscopes over out-of-range leak-test results](/incidents/auris-monarch-bronchoscope-leak-test-recall-2025.md), 2025-10-18 · Recall
- [Auris Health (J&J) recalls Monarch over a power-cord strain-relief electrical short](/incidents/auris-monarch-power-cord-strain-relief-short-recall-2025.md), 2024-08-02 · Recall
- [Auris Health (J&J) recalls Monarch robotic bronchoscopy platform over software bug that can flip the virtual scope view](/incidents/auris-monarch-flipped-image-software-recall-2023.md), 2023-10-18 · Recall
- [Auris Health (J&J) recalls Monarch Aspirating Biopsy Needle over reports of needle breakage](/incidents/auris-monarch-aspirating-biopsy-needle-breakage-recall-2020.md), 2019-04-19 · Recall

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## Sources (1)

1. https://techcrunch.com/2019/02/13/jj-spends-3-4-billion-in-cash-for-auris-healths-lung-cancer-diagnostics-and-surgical-robots/

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