Deployment
Hugo RAS at United States (multiple hotel chains)
Medtronic (NYSE: MDT; founded 1949 in Minneapolis, with legal headquarters in Dublin) makes the Hugo robotic-assisted surgery system, the late-market big-medtech challenger to Intuitive's da Vinci. Hugo is a modular multi-port teleoperated platform that received its European CE mark for urologic and gynecologic procedures on October 11, 2021, and, in the key regulatory milestone, US FDA clearance on December 3, 2025 for urologic procedures only, including prostatectomy, nephrectomy, and cystectomy, backed by the Expand URO investigational-device-exemption trial of 137 patients that met its primary safety and efficacy endpoints and was presented at AUA 2025.
General-surgery and gynecologic US indications are planned submissions but are not yet cleared. The registry records Hugo at commercial maturity: it has been CE-marked and commercially used outside the US across more than 30 countries since 2021 and is now US-cleared for urology and entering US rollout.
Medtronic discloses no specific system installed-base count, citing only tens of thousands of procedures across 30-plus countries, so the unit count is left as an honest absence rather than invented. On AI substance, Hugo is a master-slave teleoperated system whose Touch Surgery digital and video ecosystem is analytics and recording rather than autonomy, with no verified shipped intraoperative AI guidance.
Hugo RAS by Medtronic · Unverified · Surgical robots
Recent coverage
- Medtronic to unveil Touch Surgery Aide compute platform at SRS 2026Ben Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-07-21
- Pacemaker manufacturer Medtronic warns patients cybercrooks may have swiped health dataThe Register · 2026-07-02
- Medtronic's Hugo surgical robot earns FDA clearanceBen Smith, Deploy Editor · 2026-07-01
510(k) filings submitted for general and gynecologic specialties Jun 2026. Expanding Hugo beyond urology into broader surgical applications.
Safety record
No incidents on record for Hugo RAS at United States (multiple hotel chains).
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- Trust tier
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- Last updated
- 2026-08-27
- Model
- Hugo RAS
- Company
- Medtronic
- Operator
- Medtronic
- Status
- announced
- First seen
- 2026-06-03
- ID
7d79d466-8efc-4b32-bab2-03b2f3fe9350
Timeline
- Jun 2026First recordedHugo RAS first documented operating at United States (multiple hotel chains).
- Aug 2026Current status: announcedLatest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.
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Methodology: Unreviewed · 1 source (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-27
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Review state
Stable
Last reviewed 2026-08-27
Maturity + lifecycle
Maturity stage: commercial
Lifecycle: active
Architectural position
Cohort: surgical
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- unclassified
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