10 surgical robotics companies you need to know

Intuitive remains the dominant surgical robotics company — but other companies with savvy strategies are generating buzz and raising money.

Surgical robotics experts agree that the most promising technologies provide robotic surgery options that don’t necessarily clash with Intuitive — the decades-long leader in soft-tissue surgery, which launched its next-gen da Vinci 5 system last year.

“The other companies are having some success again by trying to find areas where they have a unique proposition. And I think that all the companies that do that are going to have a little bit more success by doing that and not having to spend the massive marketing dollars to compete with Intuitive head-on,” said surgical robotics expert Steve Bell, who will be a keynote speaker at DeviceTalks Boston, April 30–May 1.

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Go beyond Intuitive, and there’s medtech giant Medtronic, which is seeking urological indications for its Hugo robot at the FDA — and has enjoyed success with its Mazor robots for spine surgery. (Johnson & Johnson is developing its Ottava system, which recently secured FDA investigational device exemption (IDE).) Meanwhile, Stryker has enjoyed a great deal of success in orthopedic surgery with its Mako robots — with competitors now on the market with their ortho surgery systems.

After that, a recent MassDevice analysis found that the top seven companies that disclosed fundraising have brought in more than $2 billion in total.  Here’s our list of 10 surgical robotics companies to know, along with the names of the robots:

Download our free Surgical Robotics Special Report to learn more about these 10 surgical robotics companies, including how much money they’ve raised, as well as 47 others that we’ve covered on MassDevice in recent years. (Here are the companies we listed a year ago.)