A few months ago I indicated that the battle ground for the next few years will be down to the “Power of the tower.” DV5 took a strategic step forwards by launching with a fully capable and integrated laparoscopic tower at the heart of its new daVinci surgical 5th Gen robot.
Two big features jumped out to me on that system. The first (and I will come back to this in another post) was the significant upgrade of the integrated NIR (ICG - Fluorescence capable) hand held scope. And no, it is not just for first entry. That allows any DV5 tower to be used as a stand alone laparoscopic, fully capable, and data scooping tower. And that is a huge threat to companies like Stryker, Storz and Olympus. (See my other posts here.)
But the second - and potentially most critical component on that tower is the advanced and integrated insufflation system. I have mentioned this before, but due to the many questions I get, it maybe hasn’t landed with everyone what this means - and especially for robotics.