| Date | Title | Description |
| 06.04.2026 | Biotech Firm Gets a New Leader
New chief chosen | - |
| 31.03.2026 | Sonder Capital: Second Fund Futures II Closed To Advance AI-Enabled Medical Robotics And Minimally Invasive Therapies | Sonder Capital, a healthcare venture capital firm focused on transforming standards of care, announced the closing of its second fund, Futures II. The fund includes participation from major healthcare systems, including Mayo Clinic and Sutt... |
| 16.01.2026 |
Cramer’s week ahead: Earnings from Netflix, Intel, Capital One, McCormick | Monday - Friday, 6:00 - 7:00 PM ET
As earnings season continues, CNBC’s Jim Cramer walked investors through next week on Wall Street.
He highlighted quarterly reports from companies including Netflix, Intel, Capital One Financial and McCorm... |
| 22.10.2025 | Stocks making the biggest moves premarket: Intuitive Surgical, Pegasystems, Beyond Meat, Krispy Kreme and more | - |
| 18.07.2024 |
Intuitive announces EVP Marshall Mohr’s departure | Intuitive Surgical Global Business Services EVP Marshall Mohr [Photo courtesy of Intuitive Surgical]Intuitive Surgical (Nasdaq: ISRG) + Global Business Services EVP Marshall Mohr is leaving the surgical robotics leader, the company said tod... |
| 19.03.2024 | Analysis:Nvidia's dizzying rally spurs rush into AI-themed ETFs | The fervor around artificial intelligence has sparked a gold rush into AI-themed ETFs, as investors seek fresh ways to play the burgeoning technology following breathtaking rallies in market darlings such as Nvidia.
The funds run the gamut ... |
| 08.03.2024 | Digital Surgery Technologies Market Analysis and Forecast 2023-2033: Growing Use of Digital Surgery Technologies Potentially Offsetting the Initial Investment over Time in Hospitals | - |
| 07.03.2024 | Global Surgical Robot Market Poised for Strong Growth, Foreseen to Reach $46.37 Billion by 2028 Amid 5G Revolution, Technology Integration, and Advances in Diagnostic Tech | - |
| 09.07.2019 | After selling Auris for $3.4 billion to J&J, CEO Frederic Moll and lead investor Ajay Royan come to Disrupt | Frederic Moll has to be one of the most successful inventors and entrepreneurs who is not yet a household name.
Moll’s successes include the 22-year-old, publicly traded Intuitive Surgical, a robotic surgical systems manufacturer now worth ... |
| 13.02.2019 | J&J spends $3.4 billion in cash for Auris Health’s lung cancer diagnostics and surgical robots | Johnson & Johnson’s robotic surgery and medical device division, Ethicon, is dropping $3.4 billion in cash to pick up Auris Health, a developer of robotic diagnostics and surgical devices initially focused on detecting and treating lung... |
| 11.08.2018 | Haptics don’t always pay off | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
The VR sphere is fascinated by haptics and the notion that “feeling” is the ultimate immersive experience. Take the recently funded kic... |
| 11.08.2018 | Haptics don’t always pay off | The VR sphere is fascinated by haptics and the notion that “feeling” is the ultimate immersive experience. Take the recently funded kickstarter for the Holosuit that is promising a full body haptic experience as an example of just how fixat... |
| 01.12.2017 | Picking locks, building robots: One woman’s rise in biotech | How does a woman rise to the stratosphere of the medical device industry in male-dominated Silicon Valley? Dr. Catherine Mohr — an MIT-trained engineer and Stanford-trained surgeon — followed her passion: making things.
Mohr, 49, is vice pr... |
| 04.08.2017 | Auris Surgical Robotics, cofounded by superstar Fred Moll, has quietly closed on a ton of money | Auris Surgical Robotics, a 10-year-old, San Carlos, Ca.-based surgical robotics company that was cofounded by serial entrepreneur Frederic Moll, has quietly raised $280 million in Series D funding led by Coatue Management.
The company had p... |
| 19.06.2017 | Stryker buys Canadian imaging technology firm for $701M | “With NVDQ SYK receives what we view as a best-in-class technology that allows for an entry point into the small, but rapidly expanding open visualization segment, and fortifies the company’s overall imaging offering where SYK already has a... |
| 19.01.2017 | Mithril, Led by Peter Thiel and Ajay Royan, Closes on Roughly $850 Million | Peter Thiel being suddenly cast into the center of U.S. politics in 2016 isn’t something that either Thiel or his longtime friend and colleague Ajay Royan could have anticipated in 2014, when they founded Mithril Capital Management. But it ... |
| 12.07.2016 | Star Wars and the future of healthcare | Dr. Darren Schulte Contributor
Dr. Darren Schulte is the CEO of Apixio.
In his iconic Star Wars series, George Lucas envisioned a world in a galaxy far, far away, where, among other things, doctors were droids and bots.
In this world, a dro... |
| 01.06.2016 | Crowdsourced surgical video library GIBLIB launches | Eureka! Conyer had an idea: develop a multichannel video library for surgeons where they could post their own videos and watch other surgeons’ videos demonstrating innovative techniques or explaining how they dealt with difficult cases or c... |
| 23.09.2015 | Peter Thiel-backed Auris Surgical Robotics raises $150M | Just last year, Auris raised a substantial Series A round of $34 million from some 20 backers, including Highland Capital Partners, Lux Capital and Mithril Capital Management.
Here are some of the names behind Auris, as listed on the filing... |
| 12.05.2015 | Thinking Digital Returns for it’s Eighth Year | This article was originally posted on the Tech City UK website.
The eighth annual Thinking Digital runs 19-21 May 2015 at the Sage Gateshead near Newcastle upon Tyne
The Thinking Digital Conference is an annual gathering of more than 600 ... |
| 21.08.2014 | Press Release: Intuitive Surgical receives Firefly FDA clearance for da Vinci Xi surgical system | SUNNYVALE, Calif. — Intuitive Surgical, Inc. (Nasdaq:ISRG), the global leader in robot-assisted minimally invasive surgery, today announced the FDA clearance of Firefly Fluorescence Imaging for the da Vinci® Xi™ Surgical System, which provi... |
| 28.03.2014 | Intuitive Surgical recalls da Vinci cannulae | UPDATED March 28, 2014, with details from Intuitive Surgical.
Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) said it’s recalling some of the cannulae used during procedures with its da Vinci robotic surgery system, saying they can become damaged if not ins... |
| 18.12.2013 | FDA: Intuitive Surgical recalls are Class II | A pair of recalls affecting more than 110,000 components of Intuitive Surgical‘s (NSDQ:ISRG) flagship da Vinci surgical robot pose only a slight risk of serious consequences, the FDA said this week.
Intuitive notified customers Nov. 15 of t... |
| 04.12.2013 | Recalls: Intuitive Surgical warns da Vinci robot can ‘stall’ | UPDATED Dec. 5, 8:45 a.m. with comment from an Intuitive spokesman
Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) warned surgeons last month that its flagship da Vinci surgical robot can "stall" during procedures.
Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Intuitiv... |
| 01.11.2013 | Deaths, problems with robotic surgical systems not being reported to FDA | The FDA assesses and approves products based on reported device-related complications. If a medical device malfunctions, hospitals are required to report the incident to the manufacturer, which then reports it to the agency. The FDA, in tur... |
| 09.09.2013 | Intuitive Surgical says robot surgery complications study is ‘misleading’ | Robot-assisted surgical systems maker Intuitive Surgical (NSDQ:ISRG) called out the authors of a study published in the Journal for Healthcare Quality, saying that their conclusion that robot-related surgical complications were under-report... |
| 23.04.2013 | Questions arise about robotic surgery’s cost, effectiveness | Robotic surgery is similar to conventional laparascopic surgery, in which surgical instruments are inserted into small incisions in a patient’s torso and manipulated by the surgeon. In robotic surgery, however, the surgeon sits at a console... |
| 27.02.2013 | The Rise of Robotics in Med Tech | Robots represent a vision of the future, a vision that inspires two parts amazement and one part fear of being replaced by superior machines. In manufacturing, robots have been deployed since the 1960’s to exceed human precision and product... |
| 11.10.2012 | Medtech industry proves Obama’s comment about Americans being hardest working people | Consider the facts:
The sector has seen the ground shift beneath its feet as healthcare reform and the emphasis on managing rising costs have raised questions about whether medical technology is overused; there is now a greater emphasis on ... |
| 23.09.2012 | Robotics Revolution: The Robots Are Just Getting Warmed Up | Editor’s note: Saad Khan is a seeker of bad-assness. He found it at Evolution Robotics (not to mention Blekko, Zaarly, Jobvite, Luminate, and LendingClub). He’s a Partner at CMEA Capital. And he’s doing the robot today. Follow him on Twitte... |
| 19.09.2012 | The Three Greatest Pivots in Medtech | Probably my favorite pivot of all time. Conceptus was originally founded on (and named after) the idea of enabling conception by opening blocked fallopian tubes with a novel catheter technology. What they found during early testing was that... |
| 31.01.2012 | Could pricey surgical robots make their way into medium-sized hospitals? | Another company, Titan Medical, is expected within the next few years to release a four-armed surgical robot called the Amadeus, which could be a lower-cost (but still expensive) alternative to the da vinci.
“With more than 5,500 hospitals ... |
| 06.03.2011 | The Coolest Tech Tour Ever: A Look At How SRI Is Augmenting The Human Condition | Editor’s note: the following is a guest post by Robert Scoble, who studies tech startups and innovators for Rackspace Hosting. His videos usually go up on Rackspace’s Building43. In the post he shares a tour he recently got of SRI Internati... |
| 18.08.2010 | Intuitive Surgical inks pact, buys 3% of Cardica | Intuitive Surgical Inc. (NSDQ:ISRG) and Cardica Inc. (NSDQ:CRDC) agreed to integrate Cardica’s micro-cutter technology for Intuitive’s da Vinci robotic surgery system and for Intuitive to pick up a 3 percent stake in Cardica.
With revenues ... |
| 29.06.2010 | Morning Read: The best healthcare stock of the last 5 years | Promoted
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| 13.08.2009 | Words to lead by: Retired Cleveland Clinic CEO Floyd Loop writes book on leadership, medicine | Dr. Loop retired from the Cleveland Clinic in October 2004 after leading the health care system for 15 years. Loop ascended to the executive suite as an internationally recognized heart surgeon, according to his Forbes.com profile.  He pr... |
| 01.06.2009 | Intuitive Surgical buys NeoGuide for less invasive surgical tech | Intuitive Surgical, provider of large robotic surgical equipment, announced its acquisition of NeoGuide Systems, a San Jose, Calif., company that makes minimally invasive surgical devices. Financial terms of the deal have not been disclosed... |
| 21.04.2009 | Mars Rovers, Roomba and the Terminator enter the Robot Hall of Fame | I think congratulations are in order! The official Robot Hall of Fame is inducting several new members into its illustrious ranks. Along with Spirit, Opportunity, Roomba, and the original Terminator, the terrifying Da Vinci surgical bot and... |
| - | The Three Greatest Pivots in Medtech | For medtech-ers taking cues from the Internet startup world, consider The Lean Start-Up. The basic tenet of this methodology, coined by Eric Ries, is that a startup is just a conglomeration of hypotheses, and job one of any startup is verif... |
| - | Words to lead by: Retired Cleveland Clinic CEO Floyd Loop writes book on leadership, medicine | Updated 3:57 p.m. Friday, Aug. 14, 2009
CLEVELAND, Ohio – Health care reform, rising costs, falling reimbursements, tough financial markets and burgeoning patient demand are combining to cause a storm-of-the-century in the health care... |
| - | Morning Read: The best healthcare stock of the last 5 years | Highlights of the important and the interesting from the world of healthcare:
What’s the best-performing healthcare stock of the last 5 years? Bloomberg Businessweek has unveiled its annual ranking of the 50 top-performing stocks in the Sta... |
| - | Novas áreas com oportunidades para robótica | Na entrevista que fiz com Rob Nail falamos sobre tendências na robótica. Destaco a seguir algumas das principais aplicações que estão ou vem por aí. Essas aplicações podem ser encontradas em ‘áreas ‘tradicionais’, isto é, naquelas nas quais... |
| - | Questions arise about robotic surgery’s cost, effectiveness | In the dozen years since the Da Vinci robot has been approved for surgeries in the United States, it’s been embraced by health care providers and patients alike. Surgeons routinely use the multi-armed metal assistant to remove cancerous pro... |
| - | Stryker buys Canadian imaging technology firm for $701M | Stryker announced Monday that it is acquiring a Canadian imaging firm for $701 million.
Novadaq, a public company based in Missisauga, Canada makes fluorescence imaging technology that allows surgeons to see in real time blood flow in vesse... |
| - | Medtech industry proves Obama’s comment about Americans being hardest working people | After Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney made his now infamous, closed-door comment about 47 percent of Americans who do not pay federal income tax, President Obama appeared at a town-hall style interview organized by Univision and... |
| - | Deaths, problems with robotic surgical systems not being reported to FDA | The use of robotic surgical systems is expanding rapidly, but hospitals, patients and regulators may not be getting enough information to determine whether the high tech approach is worth its cost.
Problems resulting from surgery using robo... |
| - | Peter Thiel-backed Auris Surgical Robotics raises $150M | Stealth Bay Area startup Auris Surgical Robotics has just raised an astounding $150 million in equity, according to a regulatory filing. The company’s got an all-star list of investors – including Lux Capital, NaviMed Capital and the Peter ... |
| - | Crowdsourced surgical video library GIBLIB launches | When Brian Conyer was an MBA student at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles and working part time at Intuitive Surgical, a company that manufactures robotic surgery instruments, he was struck by two things.
First, he notice... |
| - | The Rise of Robotics in Med Tech | Robots represent a vision of the future, a vision that inspires two parts amazement and one part fear of being replaced by superior machines. In manufacturing, robots have been deployed since the 1960’s to exceed human precision and product... |
| - | Could pricey surgical robots make their way into medium-sized hospitals? | Now the province of only big, upper-tier hospitals and health systems, expensive and complex robotic surgery systems could begin making their way into medium-sized hospitals in the coming years.
Whether that’s a good or a bad thing for the ... |
