Intuitive Surgical: Making Robotics Real

The notion of highly-articulating robots informs virtually every futuristic vision of our health care system. But actual adoption has taken a long time, as skeptics point to surgeon resistance and concerns about costs. Still, Intuitive Surgical has been impressing everyone with its success in placing its daVinci robotics system and has even won over that most-demanding of constituents: public investors.

by David Cassak

A decade ago, the promise and potential of advanced medical technology to transform medicine seemed wonderfully captured by the then-emerging...

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