Consumer model
da Vinci (and Ion)
By Intuitive Surgical · surgical
- Price
- —
- Availability
- Internal use only (not for retail).
- Maturity
- production
- Real-world use
- No verified deployments
Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci is the gold-standard surgical robot and the verified-at-scale anchor of the category. Per Intuitive's SEC filings, 11,395 da Vinci systems and 1,041 Ion endoluminal systems are installed. The lineup spans da Vinci multi-port (X/Xi), the single-port SP, and the fifth-generation da Vinci 5 (FDA cleared March 2024, with force feedback), plus the Ion bronchoscopy robot (FDA 2019). It is teleoperated, a surgeon controls every motion, with shipped analytics AI; autonomous-suturing work exists only as research demos on da Vinci hardware, not as shipped product. It is enterprise B2B equipment sold to hospitals at multi-million-dollar per-system prices; there is no consumer price.
Readiness
da Vinci (and Ion) is internal use only (not for retail), no capability claims are on file, the model has no verified field deployments in the registry, and no incidents are on record.
- Availability
- internal-only
Internal use only (not for retail).
- Price honesty
- no-price
No price points on file for da Vinci (and Ion).
- Capability honesty
- no-claims
No reviewed capability claims on file for da Vinci (and Ion).
- Real-world use
- production
Maturity: production. No verified deployments in the registry.
- Safety record
- no-incidents
No incidents on record. No verified deployments either.
What it claims to do
No reviewed capability claims on file.
Price
No reviewed price points on file.
Real-world use
No verified deployments on file for da Vinci (and Ion).
Safety record
No incidents on record. No verified deployments either, so the absence is uninformative.
Privacy
No privacy practices disclosed or on file for da Vinci (and Ion).
Specs
- notes
- [{"label":"Verified (production anchor)","value":"Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG; founded 1995, Sunnyvale CA) is the dominant incumbent and the verified gold standard. VERIFIED installed base (SEC 10-Q, 3/31/2026): 11,395 da Vinci systems (+12% YoY), of which 1,464 are da Vinci 5; plus 1,041 Ion systems (+22% YoY). Q1 2026 procedures +17% worldwide; 431 da Vinci placed (232 of them da Vinci 5). da Vinci 5 FDA-cleared Mar 14 2024; Ion FDA-cleared Feb 2019."},{"label":"Axis-extension framing","value":"Surgical robotics is physical AI operating in the MEDICAL regulatory regime. FDA clearance is the verified gating event for maturity. Intuitive clears it across multiple platforms + generations -> production."},{"label":"AI-substance: teleop baseline + shipped analytics AI; autonomy demo-only","value":"da Vinci is master-slave teleoperated. SHIPPED AI: Case Insights (AI analysis of system/kinematics/video for surgeon performance) and machine-vision interface features; Force Feedback is a shipped sensing feature (not autonomy). Autonomous suturing/tissue-lifting via VLMs (Johns Hopkins/Stanford) are RESEARCH demonstrations on da Vinci hardware, NOT shipped. 4,000-mile telesurgery is investigational/in-development."},{"label":"Claimed but NOT verified","value":"'43% less force' is a preclinical/marketing figure, not an outcomes-verified clinical result. The 1,464 da Vinci 5 subfigure is company-reported (corroborated, model-level breakout)."}]
- products
- da Vinci multi-port (X / Xi), da Vinci SP single-port, da Vinci 5 (5th-gen, FDA 510(k) Mar 14 2024, Force Feedback), and Ion endoluminal robotic bronchoscopy (FDA Feb 2019).
- formFactor
- surgical (teleoperated master-slave multi-port + single-port surgical robot; + endoluminal robotic bronchoscopy)
What's under the hood
No brain on file for da Vinci (and Ion).
Frequently asked questions
- Is the da Vinci (and Ion) actually available for purchase?
- Not available to consumers. In internal use by Intuitive Surgical.Source: Intuitive Form 10-Q (Q1 2026): 11,395 da Vinci installed (1,464 da Vinci 5); 1,041 Ion
- What does the da Vinci (and Ion) cost?
- Not announced.
- Where is the da Vinci (and Ion) being used?
- No verified field deployments on record.
- Is the da Vinci (and Ion) safe?
- No incidents on record, but with no verified field deployments either, the absence is uninformative.
- How does the da Vinci (and Ion) handle privacy?
- No privacy practices disclosed or on file for da Vinci (and Ion).
- Who makes the da Vinci (and Ion)?
- da Vinci (and Ion) is made by Intuitive Surgical, based in Sunnyvale, California, USA.Source: Intuitive Form 10-Q (Q1 2026): 11,395 da Vinci installed (1,464 da Vinci 5); 1,041 Ion
Manufacturer
Intuitive Surgical (registry record: /companies/intuitive-surgical)
Compared to
Sources
- Intuitive Form 10-Q (Q1 2026): 11,395 da Vinci installed (1,464 da Vinci 5); 1,041 Ion · https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001035267/000103526726000032/isrg-20260331.htm
- Intuitive Q1 2026 earnings (procedures +17%; 431 da Vinci placed; revenue $2.77B) · https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1035267/000103526726000029/q126ex-991earningsrelease.htm
- Intuitive: FDA clearance of da Vinci 5 (510(k), Mar 14 2024; Force Feedback) · https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2024/03/14/2846718/7637/en/Intuitive-Announces-FDA-Clearance-of-Fifth-Generation-Robotic-System-da-Vinci-5.html
- Intuitive demos 4,000-mile telesurgery (investigational, in development) · https://www.therobotreport.com/intuitive-demos-4000-mile-telesurgery-with-da-vinci-5-surgical-robot/
- da Vinci 5 Force Feedback (up to 43% less force, preclinical/marketing figure) · https://www.fiercebiotech.com/medtech/intuitive-launches-latest-da-vinci-robot-force-feedback-controls
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