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Hugo RAS at Cleveland

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 · Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verified · Surgical robots

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Cleveland Clinic became the first hospital in the US to perform a robotic-assisted prostate surgery using the Hugo RAS system, following FDA clearance for urologic procedures. Dr. Jihad Kaouk performed the first commercial case on February 17, 2026. Hugo RAS is now available in 35+ countries globally.

Key facts

First US procedure
2026-02-17
Procedure
Robotic-assisted prostate surgery
Surgeon
Dr. Jihad Kaouk

Exposure

Customer
Cleveland Clinic

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Safety record

No incidents on record for Hugo RAS at Cleveland.

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Trust tier
Catalog entry · 2 sources · not yet field-verifiedhow tiers work →
Last updated
2026-08-09
Model
Hugo RAS
Company
Medtronic
Location
United States/Cleveland
Operator
Medtronic
Status
operational
First seen
2026-02-17
ID
447e2b58-d13f-4e5b-ac47-09cf7383a6e7

Timeline

  1. Feb 2026
    First recorded
    Hugo RAS first documented operating at Cleveland.
  2. Aug 2026
    Current status: operational, reviewed
    Latest recorded state. New status transitions append here as the deployment-status recorder produces them.

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Sources (2)

  1. https://news.medtronic.com/2026-02-17-Medtronic-announces-first-surgery-with-Hugo-TM-robotic-assisted-surgery-system-in-the-U-S-performed-at-Cleveland-Clinic
  2. https://newsroom.clevelandclinic.org/2026/02/17/cleveland-clinic-first-hospital-in-the-us-to-perform-robotic-assisted-prostate-surgery-using-newly-fda-cleared-system
Methodology: Verified · 2 sources (no primary) · last reviewed 2026-08-09

Verification posture

Verified

Low confidence

Review state

Stable

Last reviewed 2026-08-09

Maturity + lifecycle

Maturity stage: commercial

Lifecycle: active

Architectural position

Cohort: surgical

Sources by quality tier

2
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Common questions

What is the Hugo RAS deployment at Cleveland?
Hugo RAS, built by Medtronic, is recorded as a deployment at Cleveland on the DEPLOY registry. Medtronic operates the deployment directly.
Who operates Hugo RAS at Cleveland?
Medtronic, the manufacturer of Hugo RAS, operates this deployment directly. This is a maker-deploys-its-own-product arrangement rather than a customer pilot.
When did the Hugo RAS deployment at Cleveland go live?
The deployment is recorded as starting February 17, 2026 on the DEPLOY registry. Earlier activity may exist but is not yet sourced.
Have there been incidents at the Hugo RAS deployment at Cleveland?
No active incidents affecting this deployment are recorded on the DEPLOY registry. Absence of recorded incidents is not a guarantee no incident occurred; DEPLOY records only sourced incidents and suppresses retracted ones.

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