Medtronic alternatives

Medtronic's entry in surgical robotics is Hugo, a robotic-assisted surgery system for soft-tissue procedures that sits inside the Surgical business of Medtronic plc. The system was unveiled in 2019, received its European CE mark ahead of first commercial releases in 2021, and gained US FDA clearance for urologic procedures on 3 December 2025, with the US launch under way. Medtronic plc keeps its legal headquarters in Galway, Ireland and operational headquarters in Minneapolis, and Hugo is commercially available across Europe, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. Hospitals comparing Hugo with other surgical robotics platforms face choices of anatomy and form factor. Smith+Nephew's CORI is a handheld orthopaedic system: a camera tracks the joint hundreds of times per second while a robotic burr mills bone within planned boundaries, launched in the US in 2020. Stereotaxis, a St. Louis company founded in 1990, uses robotic magnetic navigation, steering magnetic catheters and guidewires through blood vessels and heart chambers for minimally invasive endovascular work. Stryker's Mako SmartRobotics platform anchors orthopaedic robotic-arm assisted surgery, with systems installed in 47 countries including every US state. Zimmer Biomet's ROSA is a multi-application robot family covering orthopaedic and neurosurgical assistance, originating with Medtech SA in Montpellier, France and sold through Zimmer Biomet's global orthopaedics organisation. Choose Hugo for soft-tissue assistance from a diversified medtech group; CORI for handheld orthopaedics; Stereotaxis for catheter navigation; Mako for robotic-arm joint replacement; ROSA for a multi-application orthopaedic and neurosurgical platform.

Alternatives to Medtronic

Smith+Nephew (CORI)

Smith+Nephew is a UK medical technology group and the leading proponent of handheld surgical robotics. Its CORI Surgical System shrinks the robot into a surgeon-held handpiece: a camera tracks the joint hundreds of times per second while a robotic burr mills bone only within the planned boundaries, so there is no large robotic arm in the operating room.

Stereotaxis

Stereotaxis is the pioneer of Robotic Magnetic Navigation (RMN), a surgical robotics approach in which computer-controlled magnetic fields, generated by magnets on robotic arms beside the operating table, steer the tips of magnetic catheters and guidewires through the blood vessels and chambers of the heart.

Stryker (Mako)

Stryker is a US medical technology group whose Mako SmartRobotics platform is the reference system in orthopaedic robotic-arm assisted surgery.

Zimmer Biomet (ROSA)

Zimmer Biomet is a US orthopaedics group whose ROSA Robotics platform is its multi-application surgical robot family.

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