It's here : the exciting launch of OTTAVA last week at the Society of Robotic Surgery in Miami. Following FDA Clearance via the de Novo pathway of Johnson & Johnson's new (and long awaited) soft tissue surgical robot OTTAVA. Over the coming weeks I'm pulling together all of my own personal thoughts and impressions about the system. I've been studying the patents for years - making guesses based of scant details - but now with the information in the public domain... I can m

It's that time of year again where anyone who is anyone in the field of robotic siurgey and mores so... healthcare robotics will assemble in Miami to hear the latest and greatest on where robotics in healthcare is and is heading. So you have some homework to do !! And here are 5 topics I'm helping you get up to speed with for the upcoming event. These are five key topics that will be explored in great depth at this years SRS 2026 meeting in Miami. https://srobotics.org/annu

Robotics expert Steve Bell asks if Intuitive actually has five major problems hitting them.

Theorising from patents how Ottava may implement force feedback vs what Intuitive probably do

Steve Bell (surgical robotics expert) dives deep into the impact of remanufactured surgical instruments on Intuitive

OTTAVA: Steve Bell (surgical robotics expert) breaks down the latest OTTAVA clinical data on Johnson & Johnson's soon to be released surgical robot

There are no cheap surgical robots - Expert Steve Bell explains why

Intuitive quietly increased the lives and changed the design of their force feedback instruments

Steve Bell (robotics expert) dives into how instruments will be the differentiator of the future

Steve Bell created an Ottava concept video to show what it may look like

Surgical robotics experts is asking if the RCTs in robotic surgery are still relevant or local personal data is more important.?

Surgical Robotics Expert Steve Bell gives 10 reasons your surgical robot is likely failing or will fail

Versius is and will be the number 2 surgical robot for the next decade.

Massive news from XCATH - I said 2026 is the year of the rise of the endovascular robots. Today we have seen one of the most important health events of the decade. From now on teleoperated stroke treatment is now real - watch the video now

Dig deeper into the emerging sensory layer as surgical robots get smarter and more data rich

Steve Bell explains the 10 mistakes to avoid when commercialising a soft tissue surgical robot in the USA

Most people think endoluminal robotics are flexible surgical robots - that is not what they are. They are a new way to deliver a host of new therapies

Endoluminal robotics is about to upend medicine and surgery - and most of the world has no clue yet.

Intuitive has returned to cardiac with eh DV5 - robotics expert Steve Bell explains what he thinks it really means