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Where are surgical robots actually used?

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In hospitals on four continents, and almost none of them operate by themselves. The record holds robotic surgical systems in clinical use across the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, India, Japan and China, from the long-established da Vinci platform to newer entrants in orthopaedics, interventional oncology and endoluminal work. The word robot does a lot of work here: wherever DEPLOY has classified one of these systems, the classification is overwhelmingly teleoperated, meaning a surgeon drives the instrument in real time rather than supervising a machine that operates on its own.

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In hospitals, on four continents, and the important qualifier is what these machines actually are.

Where they are. The record documents robotic surgical systems in clinical use in the United States and across Europe, including the United Kingdom, France, Ireland and Spain, plus the Netherlands, India, Japan and China. Some entries are single named hospitals and others are country or region-level records, and the page renders each at the granularity the registry holds rather than inflating one into the other.

What they are. A surgical robot on this record is, in almost every classified case, a teleoperated instrument: the surgeon sits at a console and drives it, and the machine does not decide anything about the operation. That is DEPLOY's own classification of these systems, not a characterisation added here, and the page names the exception as well as the rule. Most surgical models on the registry carry no autonomy classification at all, so the finding is scoped to the ones that do.

How many. A handful of systems account for most of the record, with the longest-installed platforms carrying many deployment rows each. Rows are grouped so one widely installed system reads as one system in many places rather than as many different robots, and each entry states how many records back it.

What is thinner than it looks. Roughly half of the reviewed surgical models on the registry carry no deployment record at all, and they are named rather than dropped. Medical-device marketing is heavy, and a substantial share of the deployment records that do exist rest entirely on the manufacturer's own website. The page flags each of those rather than letting a vendor page read as corroboration.

What the record holds

Counted from the registry rather than asserted. Each entry is one system in one lifecycle state; a system installed in many places is held together rather than counted as many robots.

Systems in clinical use
17
Places
21
Maker's word alone
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20 entries drawn from 39 reviewed deployment records across 19 systems and 18 makers at 21 distinct places. 19 of the 41 reviewed surgical models carry a deployment record; 22 carry none and are named below. 3 records carry no start date and show as not yet on record rather than being given an invented one.

Who is actually operating

Only 4 of the 41 reviewed surgical models carry an autonomy classification on the registry, and 3 of those 4 are classified teleoperated: a surgeon drives the instrument in real time. That is the record’s own classification. It is stated here for the models that carry one, and says nothing about the models that do not.

Surgical models carrying an autonomy classification on the record
SystemHow the record classifies it
DexterDistalmotionTeleoperated: a surgeon drives it in real time
V1Vicarious SurgicalTeleoperated: a surgeon drives it in real time
da Vinci (and Ion)Intuitive SurgicalTeleoperated: a surgeon drives it in real time
mBos TKA SystemMonogram TechnologiesClassified autonomous

Three different claims, kept apart

Each column is attributed to what it actually describes. The third is the claim DEPLOY refuses to make.

What the record shows

Named systems in named hospitals

Every row is a reviewed deployment at a place the registry holds, from single named institutions to country-level records for systems installed too widely to list site by site. Each carries its own status and sources, read live at page load.

What the word robot hides

A surgeon is driving it

Where DEPLOY classifies one of these systems, the classification is overwhelmingly teleoperated: the surgeon controls the instrument in real time from a console and the machine decides nothing about the operation. That is the registry's own classification, and the page names the exception as well as the rule.

What DEPLOY will not claim

That this is the installed base

These are the deployments the registry documents, not a census of every system in every hospital, and not a market-share figure. A hospital absent from this page is one DEPLOY holds no reviewed deployment for, which is not a finding that it has no robot.

In clinical use

What the registry marks operational, most recent first. Each system is described in its own model record’s words.

Surgical systems recorded in clinical use

Pilots and first cases

Deployments the registry marks as pilots. They are counted in no clinical-use total, because first cases at one centre are a different claim from a system in routine service.

Surgical systems recorded as pilots

Recorded systems with no recorded use

22 of the 41 reviewed surgical models on the registry carry no deployment record, which is roughly half the class. That is an absence in DEPLOY’s record, not a finding that these systems are unused, and several of them hold regulatory clearances that are tracked separately.

Reviewed surgical models with no reviewed deployment on the record
SystemMaker
Andromeda Surgical RobotAndromeda Surgical
CarinaRonovo Surgical
Channel Handheld Endoscopic RobotChannel Robotics
Dynamis Robotic Surgical SystemLEM Surgical
LIBERTY Endovascular Robotic SystemMicrobot Medical
MIRAVirtual Incision
Monarch PlatformAuris Health
PeritasAI Surgical AI SystemPeritasAI
ROBODOC Surgical SystemROBODOC
ROSAMedtech SA
RemebotRemebot
Revolve Surgical PlatformRevolve Surgical
SAPIEN 3 Transcatheter Heart ValveEdwards Lifesciences
SSi MantraSS Innovations International
Symani Surgical SystemMedical Microinstruments (MMI)
TiRobotTinavi Medical Technologies
ToumaiMicroPort MedBot
ToumaiMicroPort MedBot
V1Vicarious Surgical
Vantis Dental RobotVantis
Yomi SNeocis
Yomi SNeocis
How we know this

Every system on this page is a deployment record on the DEPLOY registry, read live at page load, with its own place, its own dated start where the record holds one, and its own sources. The split between clinical use and pilot comes from each record's own status, and the autonomy note on a row is the registry's own classification of that model rather than a characterisation added here. Here are the sources behind them.

Quantum SurgicalQuantum SurgicalQuantum SurgicalEuropean Investment BankQuantum SurgicalSurgical Robotics TechnologyBrain Navi Biotechnology's NaoTrac performs first surgeries in SpainFirst procedure in Netherlands with NaoTrac surgical navigation robot is performed at Erasmus MC RotterdamBrain Navi Completes First Procedure in Netherlands Using its NaoTrac Surgical Navigation RobotMass DeviceUniversity HospitalsTampa General HospitalHackensack Meridian HealthPR NewswireIntuitive SurgicalJapan.go.jpIntuitive Surgical IRIntuitive SurgicalMedical Device and Diagnostic IndustryReviewing NewsIntuitive Investor RelationsIntuitive IRMedtronicMedtronic Hugo RAS — US product pageMedtronic Hugo FDA clearance, December 2023Medtronic NewsroomMedtronicMedtronic NewsMedtronic NewsMedtronic NewsThe Robot ReportTHINK SurgicalMoon Surgical Announces First Clinical Cases in the U.S. Using Maestro SystemFirst U.S. clinical cases performed with Moon Surgical's Maestro surgical robotCMR SurgicalThe HinduExpress HealthcareCMR SurgicalCMR SurgicalRoboChronicleCMR SurgicalCMR SurgicalRoyal Papworth NHSBBC NewsCambridgeshire LiveMKUH NHSSmith+Nephew: FDA clearance for CORI Surgical System, Oct 2021FDA 510(k) K212047 — CORI Surgical SystemZimmer BiometZimmer Biomet EUMedical Supplier HubFDAIntuitive Ion robotic bronchoscopy system — product pageIntuitive: FDA clearance for Ion endoluminal system, 2019MedtronicStereotaxis Genesis robotic magnetic navigation system — product page (FDA-cleared)Stereotaxis: FDA 510(k) clearance for Genesis systemBrainlab CIRQ Robotic Positioning System — product page (FDA-cleared)Brainlab: CIRQ launch and FDA clearance announcementStrykerStryker UKBBC NewsBeckers Spine ReviewStrykerMassDeviceORTHOWORLDAsensus SurgicalFDAGlobeNewswire / AsensusLMU KlinikumAsensus IRGlobeNewswire / AsensusAsensusSEC EDGARAsensus IRSEC EDGARAsensus IRAsensus IRJ&JMonogram Technologies Announces World's First Fully Autonomous Saw-Based Robotic Knee Replacement SurgeryMonogram Technologies Inc. Form 8-K - FY2025J&J MedTech Ottava product pageJ&J Ottava press releasesDistalmotion Dexter — CE-marked robotic surgery systemDistalmotion: Dexter receives CE Mark for laparoscopic surgery, 2022

Sourcing is tested against each maker's company name and model name, so an entry resting entirely on the manufacturer's own domain is visible as one. Regulatory clearance is a different question, answered on its own page from clearance records: a deployment record is not evidence of a clearance, and a clearance is not evidence of a deployment.

Common questions

Do surgical robots operate on their own?
Not on DEPLOY's record. Where the registry carries an autonomy classification for a surgical system, the large majority are classified teleoperated, meaning a surgeon controls the instrument in real time from a console. One model on the record is classified otherwise and the page names it. Most surgical models carry no autonomy classification at all, so this is a statement about the ones that do rather than about the whole field.
Which hospitals use surgical robots?
The record names specific institutions where it holds them, alongside country and region-level records for systems installed too widely to list site by site. Places on the record include hospitals and health systems in the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Ireland, Spain, the Netherlands, India, Japan and China. A hospital absent from the page is one DEPLOY holds no reviewed deployment for, not one without a robot.
What is the most widely deployed surgical robot?
By deployment records on DEPLOY's registry, Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci platform carries more than any other system, with records spanning the United States, Europe and Japan going back to the start of the 2000s. That is a count of records DEPLOY holds rather than an installed-base figure, and it is not a market-share claim.
Are these robots FDA approved?
Regulatory clearance is a separate question from deployment and DEPLOY answers it on its own page, built from clearance records rather than from deployments. This page reports where systems are recorded in clinical use. A system can be cleared without a deployment on the record, and a deployment record is not itself evidence of a clearance.
How many surgical robots are there?
The page reports how many reviewed deployment records the registry holds and across how many distinct systems and places, which is a floor rather than an installed-base or market figure. It also reports how many reviewed surgical models carry no deployment record at all, which is roughly half of them, so the denominator is visible.
Is this just marketing from the device makers?
A substantial part of it is the maker's own account, and the page says how much. Each entry is tested against the maker's company name and model name and flagged when every source behind it sits on the manufacturer's own domain. DEPLOY does not call the remainder independent: a hospital's own press page, an investor-relations site and a press-release wire are none of them disinterested parties.

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