Chris Newmarker

NVIDIA used its GTC 2025 event this week to announce Isaac for Healthcare, a developer framework for AI healthcare robotics. | Source: NVIDIA NVIDIA’s “Super Bowl of AI” is seeing excitement around autonomous cars and robots — but there is plenty of medtech AI innovation work to discuss, too. GTC 2025 — running March 17–21, 2025 in San Jose, California — has seen news about using artificial intelligence to advance autonomous imaging, surgical robotics, brain-computer interfaces,

From left to right: Medtronic’s Hugo surgical robot, Intuitive’s da Vinci surgical robot, and Stryker’s latest Mako surgical robot. | Source: Medtronic, Intuitive Surgical, and Stryker Intuitive Surgical Inc. remains the leading surgical robotics provider — but other companies with savvy strategies are generating buzz and raising money. Surgical robotics experts agree that the most promising technologies provide robot-assisted surgery options that don’t directly compete with Intuitive. The decades-long leader in soft-tissue procedures launched its next-gen