S5 · 03/2026 · Intuitive Surgical
| Company | Intuitive Surgical |
| Category | medical robotics |
| Type | fatality |
| Date | 03/2026 |
| Time of day | not documented |
| Location | no physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record) |
| Severity | S5 (fatality or catastrophic loss) |
| Scale | MDR 2955842-2026-14792 |
| Confidence | medium |
| Verification | Yes - adversarially checked against the cited source |
| Source | openFDA MAUDE |
REVIEW OF THE INTRAOPERATIVE SYSTEM LOGS FOUND THERE WERE NO ANOMALOUS OR UNEXPECTED EVENTS FOUND DURING THE PROCEDURE RELATED TO THE EVENT. REVIEW OF THE LOGS FOR THE SUBSEQUENT FOUR PROCEDURES FOUND THE SYSTEM FUNCTIONED NORMALLY WITH NO INTRAOPERATIVE EVENTS OR ISSUES OBSERVED
| Sev | Date | Company | Event |
|---|---|---|---|
| S4 | Neuralink | Federal inquiry into Neuralink over animal deaths in implant testing |