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Johnson & Johnson MedTech and the Monarch Platform: AI-Guided Surgery Meets the World’s Deadliest Cancer
J&J MedTech is using NVIDIA Isaac Sim and Cosmos to train its Monarch robotic bronchoscopy platform in virtual operating rooms before it touches a real patient. This analysis covers the $3.4 billion Auris Health acquisition, the Monarch Platform’s role in lung cancer detection, the NVIDIA partnership unveiled at GTC 2026, and the competitive landscape of… Continue reading
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Medtronic Hugo RAS: The $130 Billion Giant That Just Entered the Operating Room
On February 17, 2026, the first commercial surgery in the United States using the Medtronic Hugo RAS system was performed at Cleveland Clinic. After decades of Intuitive Surgical’s dominance, Medtronic is exploring NVIDIA IGX Thor for real-time AI in its modular surgical robot. This analysis examines the company, the technology, the NVIDIA partnership, and the… Continue reading
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CMR Surgical and Versius: The UK Startup Training the Surgical AI of the Future
CMR Surgical contributed nearly 500 hours of real-world surgical data to NVIDIA’s Open-H, the world’s largest open dataset for healthcare robotics, and is using Cosmos-H-Surgical to train next-generation robotic intelligence for its Versius system. This analysis covers the $1.32 billion startup, its modular robot, its NVIDIA partnership at GTC 2026, and its mission to make… Continue reading