Surgical & Clinical
1 robot · scored bySRMX
Robot-assisted surgery platforms and clinical robots operating under regulatory clearance.
Surgical Robots in 2026: the market at a glance
One surgical robot is tracked so far: da Vinci 5 by Intuitive Surgical, scored 58.0 on the Surgical Robot Metric (SRMX).
How this category is scored
The Surgical Robot Metric (SRMX), version
0.2.0. Pillars are weighted for what
actually matters to this class, and normalised against
surgical & clinical-specific reference scales.
Not applicable to this category: Mobility & Locomotion, Ecosystem & Viability. These pillars are excluded from the index and the remaining weights renormalised — not scored zero.
Category profile
Every company in this category is re-checked on the cadence above by the research agents, and every proposed change is reviewed before it reaches this page.
Top surgical & clinical robots
Full surgical & clinical leaderboard — all 1 with filters →| # | Robot | Company | Status | Autonomy | SRMX |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | da Vinci 5 | Intuitive Surgical | commercial | teleoperated | 58.0 |
Why the SRMX weighs what it weighs
The published reasoning behind every pillar weight in
the Surgical Robot Metric, version 0.2.0.
- Manipulation (0.35) — the product. Everything a surgical robot does, it does through its instrument wrists: articulation, tip precision, arm count and tremor filtering.
- Commercial (0.30) — the only overridden universal scorer on the platform, and the exception is earned. Regulatory clearance is the gate: a system without FDA clearance or a CE mark cannot be sold for clinical use at any price, however many hospitals want it. Clearance is a public register entry, so the ladder is checkable rather than a judgement call. Realised installed base and cumulative procedures follow.
- Hardware (0.20) — footprint, setup time and integration with existing theatre workflow, which is what actually decides adoption between two technically similar systems.
- Autonomy (0.15) — weighted low **on purpose, and this is a stated limitation rather than a fix**. Every cleared system today is teleoperated by design: a surgeon is legally and ethically responsible for the operation. The global ladder scores teleoperation at 35 and must keep doing so, because teleop meaning the same thing everywhere is the platform's credibility. So in this class the pillar measures something the market deliberately does not want, and it is weighted accordingly rather than rescaled.
- Mobility (0.00) — excluded. The system is a cart that is wheeled into a theatre and locked. Scoring locomotion would be a category error.
- Ecosystem (0.00) — excluded. Intuitive, Medtronic and Stryker are large public medtech firms; a venture number says nothing about them.
Frequently asked questions
How many surgical robots are there in 2026?
This index tracks 1 surgical robot from 1 company, counting only machines documented by at least two independent sources.