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My secret weapon to know what is coming next in Surgical Robotics

ORCA 1 is the weapon to know what's next "Steve... how do you know what's coming and how do you predict so much stuff right?" - I have a...

Steve Bell

Aug 61 min read

Four Platforms every surgical robotics company will need

Steve Bell Dives into 4 robotic platform types Segmentation is already here. And if you think the world is all about the da Vinci Xi and...

Steve Bell

Aug 513 min read

Swan Endosurgical - founded by Olympus and Revival Healthcare Capital - is about to change the rules

Swan Endosurgical just broke all the rules in GI endoscopy and things are about to change.

Steve Bell

Jul 3121 min read

Society of Robotic Surgery 2025 meeting roundup (SRS 2025)

Steve reviews his top themes from SRS 2025 and what that means for the industry.

Steve Bell

Jul 2210 min read

Hubs or Towers? What's the future for this central piece of the OR

For robotics of the future - are we talking towers or hubs?

As we move forwards the tower is about to give way to the hub. Making the smart OR built around the HUB not the smart OR built around the surgeon.

Steve Bell

Jul 1513 min read

Beyond Surgery: A Futuristic AI-Driven Robotic Health System

In this article Steve Bell and ChatGPT gaze ahead ti the future beyond surgery today

Steve Bell

Jul 930 min read

Next level surgical robotic Simulation

Simulation in surgical robotics is about to potentially take a step up.

Steve Bell

Jul 83 min read

I think Intuitive is about to upgrade its imaging capabilities

Are Intuitive about to seriously update their imaging capabilities?

Intuitive has already cleared a lot more in imaging than you probably realise....

Steve Bell

Jun 3011 min read

Which of the healthcare robots will survive?

Which health robots will survive?

Hard to predict b its here a part of my algorithm to determine which robots will and won't survive.

Steve Bell

Jun 2510 min read

12 exciting areas in healthcare robotics you should know

12 emerging health robotics areas that should have your attention

It's not just da Vinci or Malo. There's a whole world of exciting health robots to get involved with

Steve Bell

Jun 1812 min read

Johnson & Johnson drops the Ethicon 4000 stapler with Ethicon 3D staple technology: Ready for Ottava

The Ethicon 4000 stapler calls out Ottava - so I'm all in on this

Steve Bell

Jun 1112 min read

Teaching hospitals should be obliged to have multiple surgical robots - Agree?

Teaching hospitals should be obliged to have multiple types of surgical robots: Agree?

I believe teaching hospitals should be obliged to take on multiple shift tissue surgical robots equally

Steve Bell

Jun 1015 min read

The soft tissue surgical robotics mid year review

Soft Tissue Surgical Robotics Mid Year Review 2025

A podcast that looks back on my predictions for 2025 and what was right and wrong.

Steve Bell

Jun 41 min read

The race in surgical robotics will all be won on arm designs

The Arms race in surgical robotics - why they are so important in design choice

In surgical robotics the arm design is everything - from Z-rails to V-wrists - to no arms - which is the winner

Steve Bell

May 2822 min read

Endolumenal Surgery just move forwards big time

Endolumenal robotics moves ahead with Endoquest and Virtuoso Surgical

Endolumenal surgery took a massive advance forwards with the first in human cases of Endoquest and Virtuoso Surgical.

Steve Bell

May 209 min read

Wristed Precision or Costly Decision? A 10-Year Review of Robotic vs Laparoscopic Surgery

Wristed Precision or Costly Decision? A 10-Year Review of Robotic vs Laparoscopic Surgery Please don't gnash your teeth at me. I'm just...

Steve Bell

May 1335 min read

Dualto is a sneak peek inside Ottava

Can we draw conclusions about the design of Ottava from understanding more about Dualto

Steve Bell

May 818 min read

10 things you must do when you commercialise a medical robot

10 simple rules you must follow when commercialising a medical robot

Want to fail in surgical robotics? The avoid these 10 things...

Steve Bell

May 67 min read

Robotic Stapling vs Manual Stapling: The results might surprise you

Robotic or manual stapling - what should surgeons use. Well this meta analysis might offer some deep insights

Steve Bell

Apr 222 min read

Deep dive into the da Vinci SP and single port robotic surgery with Mohammad Ramadan MD FACS

Deep dive into why the Da Vinci SP may not be what you think

Steve Bell

Apr 151 min read