Fun facts about the da Vinci

A couple of info pieces from Intuitive from a recent interview with Gary Guthart:

• At Intuitive, around 10% goes into RnD annually. 
• The key values admired are: efficiency, outcome and credibility.
• Top features of the da Vinci and major breakthroughs coming:
• Imaging: Use of computational capabilites for augmented user experience; sensorized intstruments, eg. the staplers IoT, AI support 
• big data, offline data asessment, global benchmarking
• surgical simulation, training, benchmarking
• Computation capacity of the system:7 laptops centralized computational power + 50 iphone-like distributed capacity + 100 sensors
• Most of the top 10 clinical centers, in terms of utilization of the da Vinci are in China.