Stryker and CMR surgical just penned a $400 million deal that gives Stryker access to the soft tissue surgical robotics space to take on the likes of Intuitive, JNJ and Medtronic. But is this an ASC play?

How should you deal with the ASC? Surgical robotics expert Steve Bell is joined by Scott Fraser of Fraser Healthcare and Greg Roche of Distalmotion to discuss how medtech companies need to adapt to the changing US healthcare provider environment.

Endoscopy has already gone robotic according to surgical robotics expert Steve Bell

Surgical Robotics expert Steve Bell digs into OTTAVA as a first Fall 2026 update of the system and the company moves

Surgical robots are mot all the same and surgical robotics expert Steve Bell digs into the different types of robots that are now available

Breaking news: Medtronic collaborates with Cornerstone Robotics to commercialise their Sentire soft tissue surgical robot

A convergence of technology means that the time is right for a bug advancement in Endovascular robotics

Intuitive just gained FDA clearance of the IG1000 endoluminal GI system Surgical robotics expert Steve Bell dives in an speculates what it could be

Surgical robotics expert Steve Bell dives deep into the new Johnson & Johnson Ottava soft tissue surgical robot tower and software and how it compared to Intuitive DV5

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