Capabilities
Where are surgical robots actually used?
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
- 40
- Places
- 104
- Maker's word alone
- 46 of 150
52 entries drawn from 150 reviewed deployment records across 49 systems and 44 makers at 104 distinct places. 49 of the 61 reviewed surgical models carry a deployment record; 12 carry none and are named below. 12 records carry no start date and show as not yet on record rather than being given an invented one.
Who is actually operating
Only 9 of the 61 reviewed surgical models carry an autonomy classification on the registry, and 7 of those 9 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.
| DexterDistalmotion | Teleoperated: a surgeon drives it in real time |
| Edison Histotripsy SystemHistoSonics | Supervised: a clinician is in the loop |
| OryomForSight Robotics | Teleoperated: a surgeon drives it in real time |
| POINT Kinguide Robotic-Assisted Surgical SystemPoint Robotics MedTech | Teleoperated: a surgeon drives it in real time |
| Petal Surgical Incisionless Surgery PlatformPetal Surgical | Teleoperated: a surgeon drives it in real time |
| V1Vicarious Surgical | Teleoperated: a surgeon drives it in real time |
| da Vinci (and Ion)Intuitive Surgical | Teleoperated: a surgeon drives it in real time |
| hinotoriMedicaroid | Teleoperated: a surgeon drives it in real time |
Three different claims, kept apart
Each column is attributed to what it actually describes. The third is the claim DEPLOY refuses to make.
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.
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.
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.
- LIBERTY Endovascular Robotic System: North Carolina, USA, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, Tampa, Florida, USA
Microbot Medical is a Hingham, MA-based commercial-stage medical device company (Nasdaq: MBOT) that developed the [LIBERTY Endovascular Robotic System](/models/liberty-endovascular-robotic-system), the first FDA-cleared single-use, remot... Maker on the record: Microbot Medical. 3 deployment records back this entry.
In clinical use on the recordMay 1, 2026 (as reported) 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. Maker on the record: Medtronic. 4 deployment records back this entry.
In clinical use on the recordFeb 17, 2026 (as reported)Medtronic announces first surgery with Hugo RAS system in the U.S. performed at Cleveland ClinicCleveland Clinic First Hospital in the U.S. To Perform Robotic-Assisted Prostate Surgery Using Newly FDA-Cleared SystemMedtronicMedtronic Hugo RAS — US product pageMedtronic Hugo FDA clearance, December 2023Medtronic NewsroomMedtronicMedtronic NewsMedtronic NewsMedtronic NewsThe Robot ReportFirst-of-its-kind robotic surgical platform for open, soft-tissue microsurgery. Maker on the record: MMI (Medical Microinstruments). 2 deployment records back this entry.
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.
The JASPER Platform (formerly ORYOM) is the world's first robotic surgery platform for cataract and widespread ocular diseases. Maker on the record: ForSight Robotics. DEPLOY's autonomy record: Teleoperated: a surgeon drives it in real time.
PeritasAI's PeriVerse platform is an agentic surgical system that provides real-time perception, coordination, and execution across perioperative environments. Maker on the record: PeritasAI.
- Revolve Surgical Platform: St. Michael's Hospital
Canadian surgical robotics startup developing a table-mounted, zero-footprint surgical platform for minimally invasive procedures. Maker on the record: Revolve Surgical.
Status on the record: announcedNov 1, 2025 (as reported)
Recorded systems with no recorded use
12 of the 61 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.
| Carina | Ronovo Surgical |
| Channel Handheld Endoscopic Robot | Channel Robotics |
| Lupin Robotic System | Lupin Dental |
| MIRA | Virtual Incision |
| Monarch Platform | Auris Health |
| Petal Surgical Incisionless Surgery Platform | Petal Surgical |
| ROSA | Medtech SA |
| SHURUI Single-Port Surgical Robot | Surgerii |
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.
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.
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