January 29, 2025

An instrument cluster on Intuitive’s da Vinci SP surgical system. | Source: Intuitive Surgical A federal judge in Northern California has entered a judgment as a matter of law in favor of Intuitive Surgical Inc. in an antitrust lawsuit filed by a surgical instrument servicer. In its lawsuit filed in 2021, Glendale, Ill.–based Surgical Instrument Service Co. (SIS) had accused Intuitive of using an alleged monopoly in the multiport soft-tissue surgical robotics space. It allegedly

UR’s Jonathan Sbert giving his opening keynote at Collaborate North America 2025. | Credit: Brianna Wessling, The Robot Report Universal Robots A/S held the first U.S.-based event in its global series of regional conferences and trade shows this week in Novi, Mich. Collaborate North America 2025 brought together around 750 partners and potential customers to show off collaborative robot technologies in the UR+ Partner Ecosystem and to discuss the future of the industry.  “The reason

A home robot trained to perform household tasks in a factory may fail to effectively scrub the sink or take out the trash when deployed in a user’s kitchen, since this new environment differs from its training space. To avoid this, engineers often try to match the simulated training environment as closely as possible with the real world where the agent will be deployed. However, researchers from MIT and elsewhere have now found that, despite