S5 · 04/2026 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 04/2026 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2026-22620 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
THE VESSEL SEALER CURVED INSTRUMENT IS NOT AVAILABLE FOR INVESTIGATION AS IT IS SINGLE USE AND WAS DISCARDED AFTER THE PROCEDURE. REVIEW OF THE INTRAOPERATIVE SYSTEM LOGS FOR THE DURATION OF THE PROCEDURE SHOW THE SYSTEM FUNCTIONED NORMALLY AND THERE WERE NO INDICATIONS RELATING
| Sev | Date | Company | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| S4 | Neuralink | Federal inquiry into Neuralink over animal deaths in implant testing |