da Vinci SP, the company’s single-port system, joins the existing X and Xi surgical ecosystem in Europe. Beginning in urology and transoral procedures, European clinicians can grow into additional applications over time. This follows last night’s news  — within Intuitive’s fourth-quarter earnings — that the company submitted its next-generation da Vinci 5 multiport surgical robot to the FDA for clearance.

Intuitive said da Vinci SP gives surgeons the ability to deliver robotic-assisted surgery through a single port. It potentially opens the door to “the next era of surgical innovation.”

da Vinci SP features three multi-jointed, wristed instruments and a fully wristed 3D high-definition camera. The instruments and camera emerge through a single cannula and triangulate around the target anatomy at the distal tip. This helps to avoid external instrument collisions that can occur in narrow surgical workspaces.

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