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FDA MAUDE record 2020-2026: 35 death, 1615 injury, 2388 malfunction reports

S5 · 09/2026 · Intuitive Surgical

Record

CompanyIntuitive Surgical
Categorymedical robotics
Typeregulatory
Date09/2026
Time of daynot documented
Locationno physical site (recall / fleet-wide / aggregate record)
SeverityS5 (fatality or catastrophic loss)
Scale4038 reports
Confidencehigh
VerificationCited source on file; not independently re-verified
SourceopenFDA MAUDE

What happened

openFDA MAUDE adverse-event reports since 2020 for the da Vinci platform: 35 death, 1615 injury, 2388 malfunction reports. Aggregate regulatory record; MAUDE reports are unverified submissions and include user error.

This is an aggregate regulatory record summarizing a regulator database, not a single event; it is refreshed from the source on every update cycle.

Intuitive Surgical record context

Entries by year and severity

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