S3 · 07/2026 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | injury |
| Date | 07/2026 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S3 (recall, enforcement, or fleet-wide fault) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2026-33444 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
It was reported that during a da Vinci-assisted liver resection procedure, the distal end of the Harmonic Ace instrument broke and fragments fell into the patient. All fragments were identified and retrieved during the same procedure. No post-operative tests were performed. There
| Sev | Date | Company | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| S2 | 2015-06-30 | Hocoma | Proximal tibia fracture in a patient with incomplete spinal cord injury associated with robotic treadmill training |