Built on years of experience, the Touch Surgery\u2122 ecosystem brings insights to surgery, in more than 1,500 operating rooms worldwide. It connects the entire surgical journey: bridging pre-operative planning and training, intra-operative tele-mentoring and tele-proctoring, and AI-powered post-operative insights, simplifying workflows and extending access beyond individual ORs.<\/p>\n
Touch Surgery\u2122 Aide expands the Touch Surgery\u2122 ecosystem with next-generation computing capabilities, enabling multimodal AI-driven support during surgery. This provides surgeons with access to actionable insights during procedures, supports case review, and helps inform continuous improvement in clinical decision-making.<\/p>\n
“Real-time AI marks a new frontier for healthcare \u2014 it is a fundamental evolution in how surgery is supported, moving from technology that assists the surgeon’s hand to technology that helps teams work smarter, move faster, and deliver greater impact in the moment,” said Jim Peichel, Chief Technology Officer at Medtronic.<\/p>\n
Touch Surgery\u2122 Aide\u00a0incorporates\u00a0NVIDIA’s accelerated computing infrastructure,\u00a0leveraging\u00a0the company’s\u00a0Holoscan, CUDA, and\u00a0TensorRT\u00a0to deliver AI-powered insights in the moment, supporting surgical decision-making when it matters most. Touch Surgery\u2122 Aide combines computer vision, multimodal AI, and accelerated inference to process surgical video and procedural context in real time. This enables multiple AI applications to run simultaneously during a live procedure, processing and acting on surgical data in the moment. It brings intelligent, increasingly automated support in the OR, and is designed to continuously learn and evolve.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Medtronic’s first real-time AI application for robotic surgery
\nInstrument Exit Point (IEP) is an AI application that runs on Touch Surgery\u2122 Aide, for use with the Hugo\u2122 robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system. It received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) clearance.<\/p>\n
Using computer vision,\u00a0IEP provides a visual notification when select instruments move beyond the visible\u00a0field of view during a robotic procedure.\u00a0As the first real-time AI application to run on Touch Surgery\u2122 Aide, IEP\u00a0represents\u00a0an early step in bringing AI-enabled support into robotic surgery, with the platform designed to support expansion into laparoscopic surgery over time.<\/p>\n
Medtronic continues to progress the capabilities of the Hugo\u2122 robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) system. In December 2025, the Hugo\u2122 RAS system received\u00a0FDA clearance<\/a>\u00a0for use in urologic surgical procedures, bringing a versatile robotic-assisted platform to U.S. surgeons and health systems.\u00a0In June 2026, Medtronic\u00a0announced\u00a0<\/a>510(k)\u00a0submissions\u00a0to expand\u00a0the use of the\u00a0Hugo\u2122\u00a0RAS\u00a0system into general and gynecologic specialties in the U.S.\u00a0The\u00a0Hugo\u2122 RAS system continues to have a growing global impact and has been used in tens of thousands of procedures across more than 35 countries in six continents.\u00a0<\/p>\n Transforming the future of surgery “Surgery is on the cusp of a generational shift, powered by AI and advanced compute,” said George Murgatroyd,\u00a0General Manager & Vice President, Digital Technologies\u00a0within the Surgical business at Medtronic.\u00a0“The Touch\u00a0Surgery\u2122 ecosystem, powered by Touch Surgery\u2122 Aide,\u00a0establishes a platform for a new generation of embedded connectivity, seamlessly integrating advanced capabilities into surgical workflows and reinforcing Medtronic’s commitment to delivering the best possible care, for every patient, anywhere.”<\/p>\n About Medtronic Any forward-looking statements are subject to risks and uncertainties such as those described in Medtronic’s periodic reports on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Actual results may differ materially from anticipated results.<\/p>\n Contacts: Ingrid Goldberg SOURCE Medtronic plc<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Advanced compute power, built on NVIDIA infrastructure, enables real-time decision support during the procedure FDA-cleared Instrument Exit Point…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":552570,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[163,521,85,46],"class_list":["post-552569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-healthcare","tag-health","tag-healthcare","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/552570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nThis is an early step in a broader effort to bring AI into more of what happens in the operating room. Over time, Medtronic expects the platform to support a growing range of real-time AI applications, connect with other Medtronic technologies in the OR, and turn the data from every case into insights for surgical teams and the hospitals they work in.<\/p>\n
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