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Stryker

Stryker Corporation (NYSE: SYK) is one of the World's largest medical technology companies, headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with $25B in 2025 revenue and…

Founded
1941
HQ
Kalamazoo, MI, USA
Status
public (NYSE: SYK)

The verified answer

As of Sep 2026, DEPLOY verifies Stryker: 1 model, 8 deployments across 5 regions, 9 active incidents. 3 sources back the record.

Regulatory status4 FDA 510(k) clearances1 FDA recall

Stryker holds 4 FDA 510(k) clearances and has 1 FDA recall on record, per the DEPLOY registry.

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CategorySurgical robots

Overview

Stryker Corporation (NYSE: SYK) is one of the World's largest medical technology companies, headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan, with $25B in 2025 revenue and approximately 56,000 employees. The company's Mako SmartRobotics platform is the leading robotic orthopedic surgery system, with record Mako installations in 2024 for hip and knee replacements, and the next-generation Mako showcased at AAOS 2025 including the new Mako Shoulder application.

Verified record

Verified deployments
8 deployments on file
Active incidents
9 incidents on file

Valuation of record

DEPLOY VERIFIED
$1.6B (reported, approximate)as of Dec 2013

AcquisitionAcquired by Stryker

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Key facts

Product

Mako SmartRobotics robotic-arm orthopedic system (knee/hip/spine/shoulder).

Boundary

AI-augmented surgeon-controlled assistance, NOT autonomous.

Stock ticker

Market position

Mako SmartRobotics is the market-leading robotic-arm system for orthopedic joint replacement

Acquisition

Acquired MAKO Surgical in 2013 for ~$1.65B

CEO

Kevin Lobo (Chair & CEO)

Revenue

$25B (2025)

Employees

approximately 56,000

Robotics platform

Mako SmartRobotics (hip, knee, shoulder)

Mako platform

Hip, Knee, Spine, Shoulder + Mako RPS handheld (2026)

Mako price

$800,000-$1,400,000 (Mako 4 next-gen)

Data & sources

Company filings

1

Press releases

2

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Partnerships

Every company Stryker has built with, alongside the ones only announced in a press release.

4 total2 operating2 just announced2 ended

Most-frequent partners

  1. 1Siemens Healthineers1× joint1 total
  2. 2THINK Surgical1× joint4 total
  3. 3Vocera Communications1× joint1 total
  4. 4Wright Medical Group1× joint1 total

Relationships

Explainers

Plain-language answers to the questions people ask about Stryker, from DEPLOY’s explainer library. Each is written in the language of the question and cross-checked against this registry.

What is Stryker Mako?
Stryker Mako is a large-footprint CT-based robotic-arm-assisted orthopedic surgical system from Stryker (NYSE: SYK; HQ Portage, MI per Agent A correction, NOT Kalamazoo). Mako was acquired in 2013 via Stryker's $1.65B acquisition of MAKO Surgical. Per Agent A orthopedic ingest: FDA-cleared multi-procedure (partial + total + cementless knee + hip + hip-revision + spine via K241517 + shoulder via K242373); CT-based pre-op planning + robotic-arm-assisted intra-op execution. AI-augmented surgeon-controlled assistance (NOT autonomous; software plans/tracks/bounds, surgeon makes the cuts); same assistive class as Intuitive da Vinci, framed honestly + consistently across the cohort. Editorial throughline: large-footprint orthopedic market-leader archetype within the surgical cluster's orthopedic sub-cohort; multi-procedure platform spanning knee + hip + spine + shoulder; SEC-disclosed parent-company verification depth.Read the full explainer →
Why does DEPLOY surface Stryker as headquartered in Portage, MI, not Kalamazoo?
Common framing across press coverage + aggregator listings + secondary references identifies Stryker Corporation as headquartered in Kalamazoo, Michigan. Per Agent A primary-source verification against SEC 10-K filings, Stryker is headquartered in **Portage, Michigan**, not Kalamazoo. Small fact. Foundational at the framework-discipline layer. The Stryker headquarters correction is the canonical worked example of small-fact discipline cuts uniformly: DEPLOY reads single-city location identification at the same primary-source verification depth as $5.6B-vs-$11B valuation corrections + Doug-Unis-CMO-vs-CEO leadership corrections + corporate-state-transition multi-fact precision. The framework operates at per-claim depth; per-claim depth doesn't scale with company size or fact magnitude. This piece documents the catch as framework-in-action worked example demonstrating small-fact discipline + primary-source verification at single-city location identification depth + uniform application of the framework across granularity.Read the full explainer →
Which surgical robot is most deployed?
Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci: 11,106 systems installed worldwide as of Dec 31, 2025 per its 10-K, roughly an order of magnitude ahead of every soft-tissue competitor. Stryker Mako is the only credible challenger on procedure volume, via orthopedics.Read the full explainer →
What is the cheapest surgical robot?
Distalmotion's Dexter, at roughly $500K-$1M (2025 analyst estimate), is the cheapest FDA-cleared general soft-tissue surgical robot on record, undercutting da Vinci ($1.5M-$2.5M) and Versius ($750K-$1M).Read the full explainer →

Current leadership (5)

Founders (1)

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Board (1)

Former / Previously (5)

  • Alon Mozes Principal Engineer (former)secondary-verified
  • Anthony Fernando VP, Innovation & Technologysecondary-verified
  • Juan Salcedo Principal Engineer (former)secondary-verified
  • Maurice Ferre President & CEO, MAKO Surgical (acquired by Stryker 2013)secondary-verified
  • Rony Abovitz Founder & CTO, MAKO Surgical (acquired by Stryker 2013)secondary-verified

Media (1)

Company-anchored media. Official assets the company has published at the company level, distinct from model-anchored media that lives on individual product pages.

Safety record

6 recalls and 3 incidents on record (7 serious, 2 moderate). Most recent: Apr 2025.

serious
7
moderate
2
recall
6
malfunction
2
injury
1

Most recent: Apr 2025

Only active incidents are counted. Retracted incidents are excluded from this summary but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

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Incidents affecting Stryker (9)

Includes incidents linked directly to this company, to its models, or to deployments of its models or under its operation. Retracted incidents are excluded from this view but remain reachable at their canonical URLs.

Operator customers (1)

Recent coverage

Stryker in third-party press

Peers

41 peers across 1 segment. Every Stryker competitor derived from shared form-factor and application-domain edges.

surgical robot(41)

28 companies in this segment · moderately_concentrated (HHI 2056.2102191459944) · leader Mazor Robotics at 3317%