# Intuitive Surgical

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## TL;DR

Intuitive Surgical makes the da Vinci robot, used in most robotic cancer surgeries worldwide.

## Summary

Intuitive Surgical, based in Sunnyvale, California, and listed as ISRG, makes the da Vinci robot, used in most robotic cancer surgeries worldwide. Its systems are da Vinci 5, the SP single-port robot and the Ion bronchoscopy platform for lung nodule biopsy, with more than ten thousand systems installed. OnCo links it to robotic and minimally invasive surgery, transoral robotic surgery and navigational bronchoscopy, to head and neck cancer, to the bottleneck that surgery and radiotherapy cure most patients but receive least research funding, and to ideas including a consented commons of surgical video linked to outcomes and an independent evaluation unit for surgical robots. Whether robotic surgery improves cancer outcomes, rather than recovery alone, is the question its trials have not settled. The technology pages carry the evidence.

## Fields

- Kind: Company
- Last checked: 2026-09-04
- HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
- Type: devices
- Website: https://www.intuitive.com
- Ticker: ISRG

## Sources

- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intuitive_Surgical
- Official website: https://www.intuitive.com

## Connected records

- fronts: [Surgery & Interventional](https://onco.cc/fronts/surgery/)
- technologies: [Intraoperative fluorescence and Cerenkov imaging systems (SPY, Firefly, LumiSystem, LightPath)](https://onco.cc/technologies/intraoperative-fluorescence-imaging-systems/), [Robotic & minimally invasive surgery](https://onco.cc/technologies/robotic-surgery/), [Robotic and navigational bronchoscopy](https://onco.cc/technologies/robotic-bronchoscopy/), [Surgical robots: da Vinci, Hugo, Versius and single-port systems](https://onco.cc/technologies/surgical-robot-platforms/), [Transoral robotic surgery (TORS)](https://onco.cc/technologies/tors/)
- cancers: [Head and neck squamous cell carcinoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/head-and-neck/)
- bottlenecks: [Surgery and radiotherapy cure most, get least](https://onco.cc/bottlenecks/b-surgery-radiation-innovation/)
- ideas: [A consented commons of surgical video linked to pathology and outcomes](https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-data-surgical-video-commons/), [An independent evaluation unit for surgical robots and AI, paid on evidence](https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-fund-surgical-ai-robotics-evaluation/), [Mandatory staged registries for new surgical techniques before wide adoption](https://onco.cc/ideas/idea-fund-device-technique-registry/)
- trials: [IS-002 Phase 2 Prostate Cancer Study](https://onco.cc/trials/nct05946603/)

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