{"id":504680,"date":"2026-02-26T05:54:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504680\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T05:54:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T05:54:13","slug":"kawasaki-heavy-aims-to-launch-surgical-robot-in-europe-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/504680\/","title":{"rendered":"Kawasaki Heavy aims to launch surgical robot in Europe this year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"ArticleTag_articleTag__P1Zo7\" href=\"https:\/\/asia.nikkei.com\/business\/health-care\" data-trackable=\"primary-tag\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Health Care<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleHeader_newsArticleHeaderSubtitle__ZlvPp\" data-trackable=\"subhead\" data-dark-mode=\"false\">Japan company sets up 1st overseas R&amp;D site to challenge da Vinci machine<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image-main img-fluid ImageNew_imageNewImageResponsive__f1VTu\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/cms-image-bucket-productionv3-ap-northeast-1-a7d2.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com\/images\/2\/4.jpeg\" alt=\"20260225N Kawasaki Heavy surgery robot 1\" width=\"780\" height=\"auto\" loading=\"eager\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"NewsArticleCaption_newsArticleCaption__fxo8v\" data-trackable=\"caption\" data-dark-mode=\"false\" style=\"display:block\">The hinotori surgical robot was developed by Medicaroid, a joint venture between Kawasaki Heavy Industries and Sysmex.\u00a0(Photo by Annu Nishioka)<\/p>\n<p>EISAKU NITTA and YUTA MAEDA<\/p>\n<p>February 26, 2026 03:31 JST<\/p>\n<p data-dark-mode=\"false\" class=\"Paragraph_paragraph__2p1wC\">TOKYO &#8212; Kawasaki Heavy Industries is cultivating the European medical robot market, with plans to open its first overseas development center in France next month as it prepares to take on the U.S.-developed da Vinci surgical robot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Health Care Japan company sets up 1st overseas R&amp;D site to challenge da Vinci machine The hinotori surgical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504681,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[18734,64,63,2057,137,500,35544,144556,10360,3146,70810,19004,1547],"class_list":{"0":"post-504680","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-healthcare","8":"tag-aims","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-europe","12":"tag-health","13":"tag-healthcare","14":"tag-heavy","15":"tag-kawasaki","16":"tag-launch","17":"tag-robot","18":"tag-surgical","19":"tag-this","20":"tag-year"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=504680"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504680\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}