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Medtronic Hugo

Products: Surgical robot. Risk band: High   RobotRisk index 55.7/100 (incidents/exposure, time-weighted) · 99th percentile of 162 medical robotics companies.

Analyst brief

The record contains one entry: a field safety notice for a power supply failure in the Hugo surgeon console, severity 2. Despite the single, moderate-severity entry, the company sits at index 55.4 and the 98.8th percentile, a high band driven by the category's tight severity distribution for surgical robotics rather than by event volume. A field safety notice is a manufacturer/regulatory corrective mechanism, indicating the issue was formally acknowledged rather than surfaced only through press coverage. The record shows a single component-level malfunction with no indication of recurrence.

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Incident log (1 unique incidents)

SevDateTypeLocationIncidentSource
S409/2026 regulatory FDA MAUDE record 2020-2026: 0 death, 39 injury, 1594 malfunction reports · 1633 reports openFDA MAUDE
S2 malfunction Field safety notice for Hugo surgeon console power supply failure · 25 complaints, subset of Hugo consoles… MassDevice
39 individual reports under the MAUDE regulator record (supporting filings, not counted as incidents)
SevDateTypeReportSource
S308/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-05237 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-05237 openFDA MAUDE
S308/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-05156 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-05156 openFDA MAUDE
S307/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-04689 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-04689 openFDA MAUDE
S306/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-03455 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-03455 openFDA MAUDE
S306/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-03558 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-03558 openFDA MAUDE
S306/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-03559 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-03559 openFDA MAUDE
S306/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-03600 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-03600 openFDA MAUDE
S306/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-03601 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-03601 openFDA MAUDE
S306/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-03806 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-03806 openFDA MAUDE
S306/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-03807 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-03807 openFDA MAUDE
S305/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-03191 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-03191 openFDA MAUDE
S305/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-03299 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-03299 openFDA MAUDE
S305/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-03370 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-03370 openFDA MAUDE
S305/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-03411 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-03411 openFDA MAUDE
S304/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-02121 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-02121 openFDA MAUDE
S304/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-02123 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-02123 openFDA MAUDE
S304/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-02184 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-02184 openFDA MAUDE
S304/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-02217 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-02217 openFDA MAUDE
S304/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-02541 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-02541 openFDA MAUDE
S304/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-02628 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-02628 openFDA MAUDE
S303/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 9612501-2026-00665 (Hugo) · MDR 9612501-2026-00665 openFDA MAUDE
S303/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-01916 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-01916 openFDA MAUDE
S302/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-00959 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-00959 openFDA MAUDE
S302/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-00964 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-00964 openFDA MAUDE
S302/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-00965 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-00965 openFDA MAUDE
S301/2026 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2026-00054 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2026-00054 openFDA MAUDE
S312/2025 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2025-05792 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2025-05792 openFDA MAUDE
S312/2025 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2025-05849 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2025-05849 openFDA MAUDE
S312/2025 injury MAUDE injury report 1219930-2025-06158 (Hugo) · MDR 1219930-2025-06158 openFDA MAUDE
S303/2025 injury MAUDE injury report 2438477-2025-00018 (Hugo) · MDR 2438477-2025-00018 openFDA MAUDE
S305/2024 injury MAUDE injury report 2438477-2024-00026 (Hugo) · MDR 2438477-2024-00026 openFDA MAUDE
S305/2024 injury MAUDE injury report 3014273557-2024-00002 (Hugo) · MDR 3014273557-2024-00002 openFDA MAUDE
S312/2022 injury MAUDE injury report 2438477-2022-00125 (Hugo) · MDR 2438477-2022-00125 openFDA MAUDE
S307/2022 injury MAUDE injury report 2438477-2022-00052 (Hugo) · MDR 2438477-2022-00052 openFDA MAUDE
S303/2022 injury MAUDE injury report 2438477-2022-00015 (Hugo) · MDR 2438477-2022-00015 openFDA MAUDE
S310/2021 injury MAUDE injury report 2438477-2021-00063 (Hugo) · MDR 2438477-2021-00063 openFDA MAUDE
S303/2021 injury MAUDE injury report 2438477-2021-00009 (Hugo) · MDR 2438477-2021-00009 openFDA MAUDE
S302/2021 injury MAUDE injury report 2438477-2021-00000 (Hugo) · MDR 2438477-2021-00000 openFDA MAUDE
S301/2020 injury MAUDE injury report MW5092409 (Hugo) · MDR MW5092409 openFDA MAUDE

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