Number of the day - 117 commercial surgical robot comapines

Dwight Meglan has provided his updated deck on all the commercial surgical robots:

"I am up to 486 as you will see. Below are summary notes of changes from last year's deck. I have also added a number of new slides because of now having data on when the robots were started. Those slides are quite interesting in my view. You can really see trends in them."

Update notes:
- Over last 5 years, adding ~40 companies per year
- Number of companies in China will surpass US in 2024
- Added best effort on info for year of start of robot
- Switched to assessing robots, not companies
- Additions to list in the past year include (some are older)
22 - endovascular 3 - lung
15 - orthopedics 3 - cochlear
11 - percutaneous 3 - neuro
9 - vascular access 3 - microsurgery
9 - abdominal/thoracic 2 - gynecology
8 - spine 2 - urology
6 - eye 2 - ultrasound
5 - endoluminal 1 - scope control
4 - cosmetic 1 - otolaryngology
3 - dental 1 - gastroenterology
3 – cardiac 1 - nerve block

- 65 of 117 added companies are Chinese
- 24 companies state they have more than 1 robot
- Extensive editing and vetting of entries