Healthcare News Coverage of robotics and AI in healthcare, including surgical robots, rehabilitation and exoskeleton systems, hospital automation, and AI-driven diagnostics. Readers find news on product launches, FDA clearances and regulatory milestones, clinical trial results, funding rounds, and partnerships between medtech companies, hospitals, and research labs.
Intuitive Surgical Rolls da Vinci 5 Force Feedback and 100+ Updates Into Europe — Sep 26, 2026 — Intuitive Surgical is bringing CE-marked Force Feedback instruments, Intuitive Telepresence and more than 100 system updates for the da Vinci 5 platfo...FDA Draft Guidance Rewrites Premarket Bar For Surgical Robots — Sep 26, 2026 — The FDA has published its first comprehensive draft guidance for robotically-assisted surgical devices, setting non-clinical, clinical and labeling ex...Oracle Rebrands Health AI Platform As Life Sciences Data Intelligence — Sep 24, 2026 — Oracle rebrands its Life Sciences AI Data Platform as Life Sciences Data Intelligence, layering AI agents over 122M longitudinal patient records.Anthropic Says Claude Autonomously Found A New CRISPR-Like Enzyme System — Sep 24, 2026 — Claude ran 950 agents for 21 hours and surfaced Array-Associated Reverse Transcriptases, a novel CRISPR-like defense system hidden in bacteriophage DN...Novo Nordisk Signs Anthropic For Claude-Powered Drug Discovery — Sep 21, 2026 — Novo Nordisk is deploying Anthropic's Claude across R&D workflows, building on its NovoScribe rollout that cut clinical-study report writing from ten...Bioservo Fits 100th U.S. Veteran With Carbonhand Grip-Assist Glove — Sep 21, 2026 — Sweden's Bioservo Technologies has now fitted 100 U.S. veterans with its Carbonhand soft grip-assist glove through the Department of Veterans Affairs,...AVAVA Raises $45M Led By Catalio For MIRIA Laser Rollout Across Skin Tones — Sep 19, 2026 — Boston-area medical aesthetics company AVAVA closed a $45M financing led by Catalio Capital Management to accelerate commercial expansion of its MIRIA...Anthropic Confirms San Francisco Wet Lab For AI Biology Research — Sep 19, 2026 — Anthropic confirms it now runs a Bay Area wet lab where robots and human scientists test Claude-generated biology hypotheses, following a $400M Coeffi...Medtronic Wins FDA Clearance For LigaSure RAS Maryland On Hugo Robot — Sep 19, 2026 — Medtronic has secured FDA clearance for its LigaSure RAS Maryland instrument on the Hugo robotic-assisted surgery system, delivering the first robot-n...Altis Labs Bags $25M Series A For AI Imaging Endpoints In Oncology Trials — Sep 18, 2026 — Toronto's Altis Labs closed a US$25 million Series A co-led by OrbiMed and Qiming Venture Partners USA to accelerate its AI imaging endpoint models ac...Neptune Medical's Triton 1 Wins FDA Clearance For Robotic Colonoscopy — Sep 18, 2026 — Burlingame, California's Neptune Medical secured 510(k) clearance for its Triton 1 Robotic Endoscopy System after a pivotal trial that logged a 100% c...Health Force Raises €4.2M Seed to Deploy AI Agents Across European Hospitals — Sep 18, 2026 — Barcelona-based Health Force closes a €4.2 million seed round led by LUMO Labs to expand pre-trained AI agents that automate hospital prior authorizat...Medtronic Wins FDA Clearance For Robotic LigaSure Maryland On Hugo — Sep 17, 2026 — The FDA has cleared LigaSure RAS Maryland, the first robotic-driven version of Medtronic's vessel-sealing platform, for use on the Hugo robotic-assist...ByteDance Spin-Off Anew Labs Raises $290M At $1.5B For AI Drug Discovery — Sep 16, 2026 — Shanghai-based Anew Labs, spun off from ByteDance's internal AI-for-biology unit, closed a $290 million inaugural external round at a $1.5 billion val...Nutshell Therapeutics Closes Series C1 To Scale AI Allosteric Drug Discovery — Sep 16, 2026 — Shanghai-based Nutshell Therapeutics has closed a Series C1 led by Trustbridge Capital and Decheng Capital to scale its machine-learning-plus-physics...Tandem Health Bags $100M Series B To Build Europe's AI Clinic Operating System — Sep 15, 2026 — Stockholm-based Tandem Health raised a $100M Series B led by the EU-backed Scaleup Europe Fund managed by EQT to turn its clinician AI co-pilot into a...Inspiren Bags $70M Series C To Bring Physical AI To Senior Living — Sep 11, 2026 — NewView Capital leads a $70M Series C for Inspiren at a valuation above $500M as the New York startup scales its computer-vision fall detection stack...Google DeepMind Ships AlphaGenome Atlas — All 9 Billion Human DNA Variants, Precomputed — Sep 10, 2026 — On September 8, 2026 Google DeepMind released AlphaGenome Atlas, a 1-petabyte free resource that precomputes AlphaGenome's molecular-effect prediction...Stryker Runs First Hip Arthroscopy On Apple Vision Pro Using FDA-Cleared SportSuite Vision — Sep 9, 2026 — Stryker completed the world's first hip arthroscopy on Apple Vision Pro at Duke Health, using SportSuite Vision — the first FDA-authorized surgical ap...Roen Surgical's Zamenix Wins FDA Clearance For AI Kidney Stone Robot — Sep 8, 2026 — Roen Surgical's Zamenix has won FDA 510(k) clearance as the first AI-based flexible ureteroscopic kidney-stone surgery robot, opening a US path for th...