S5 · 02/2026 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 02/2026 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2026-05349 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
REVIEW OF THE INTRAOPERATIVE SYSTEM LOGS FOR THE DURATION OF THIS PROCEDURE SHOW THE SYSTEM FUNCTIONED NORMALLY AND THERE WERE NO INDICATIONS RELATING TO THIS EVENT. LOG REVIEW OF THE 5 SUBSEQUENT PROCEDURES FOUND THE SYSTEM FUNCTIONED NORMALLY; NO INTRAOPERATIVE EVENTS OR ISSUES
| Sev | Date | Company | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| S4 | Neuralink | Federal inquiry into Neuralink over animal deaths in implant testing |